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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] Maximum number of email recipients
From:       Stephan Matthiesen <stephan.matthiesen () gmx ! de>
Date:       2006-06-15 9:51:35
Message-ID: 200606151051.35711.stephan.matthiesen () gmx ! de
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Hi,

Am Donnerstag, 15. Juni 2006 05:56 schrieb William Chapman:
> Kontact has the useful facility to set up an email to a group of recipients
> by means of creating a list which needs only be set up  once. By selecting
> the list one no longer needs to select each recipient individually each
> time a standard message needs to be sent. Is there any limitation to the
> number of recipients which can be placed in a group or list? I need to send
> an email to just over 2000 members of an association. I have searched the
> archives and googled, but the answer has evaded me sofar and the deadline
> looms.

You should also be aware that kmail expands the list and writes all the emails 
from this list explicitly into the "to" field in the header. This has two 
side effects, which you may not want:

1. Every member then knows the email adresses of all other members. This may 
break confidentiality.

2. Some mail programmes show the full header, so the recipient will get a mail 
with a long list of names and the actual message only at the end.

It may be better to set up a proper mailing list through your provider, 
similar to this one (kde-pim).

If you don't have the time or possiblity, but have to use the kmail 
distribution list, I would recommend that you put the recipients into 
the "bcc" (blind copy) field of your mail, not into the "to" field. This way 
the emails of all the 2000 people remain invisible to the recipients. (but 
some recipients may not get the message, because some spam filters will not 
like this).

Hope this helps
Cheers
Stephan
http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/~stephan
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