Can't close a window in mac mail

[krilson]

Greetings.

So I have a very annoying issue. I have been trying to email 500 recipients at once, which caused my mac mail client to give me the following message "Cannot send message using the server"

Problem is, the dropdown under this error message shows all the 500 recipients emails, making it impossible for me to see the bottom part of the window, and thereby not being able to close it.

Please see the screenshot for reference.

 

[ferrarr]

can you combine those recipients into one "Group", then send to the group?

 

[IWT]

Welcome to our Forums.

You can use the keyboard to close a window. Command plus W will close the current open window.

Ian

 

[krs]

Ian solved your problem of not being able to close the window, but I wanted to mention a problem I ran into a while back when I tried to send a large number of emails to a distribution list.
An ISP may block emails if there are more than a certain number sent from a specific email address to recipients that have an email address with that ISP.
This happened to me specifically with Bell Canada, people who signed up with them were fiven an email address of [email protected] and when there were more than about a dozen recipients on the email distribution list with an @sympatico.ca email address, those emails were not being delivered.
Took me a while to figure that out....maybe other ISP's have implemented that same restriction - it's supposed to help limit SPAM.
Just a heads up.

 

[IWT]

Very interesting observation, krs.

I knew that there were limitations on the number of persons in a Group or list of recipients; but your explanation explains the basis - it’s not so much the total number, as the number of recipients with the same ISP.

Ian

 

[MacInWin]

Not necessarily, Ian. My ISP has a limit on the number of addressees on any given email sent. My wife, who runs a business and has an email account, cannot send a single email to all of her customers at once as the sending server refuses the message. So in this case it IS the total number.

 

[IWT]

Thanks for that, Jake. I guess it varies from one ISP to another. And maybe from one country to another. Whatever, your comment is much appreciated. Tricky world we live in.

Ian

 

[pm-r]

Is the new OP member still with us and if so maybe just shut down or force quit if needed, then restart and try and sort out or delete what is trying to be sent.

Then maybe start all over again using a different method.

But first, they should contact their ISP, as sending email to 500 recipients at once is usually well beyond the normal allowed email limit. Most ISP servers have various options for doing legitimate mass mailings.

Actually, I'm a bit surprised that they have only just come across this problem now and why all of a sudden 500 emails??? Hmmm...??? But.. not that unusual if the sender is a new spammer.


- Patrick
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