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Admins Accuse Microsoft of Hotmail Cap

Posted by samzenpus on from the who-needs-more-than-10-friends dept.

kurmudgeon writes "The Register is fielding reader tips that Hotmail has placed Draconian limits on the number of Hotmail recipients who can receive an email. The first 10 Hotmail addresses included in a mass email go through just fine, according to these reports. But any additional addresses are returned to sender with a message that reads: "552 Too many recipients." (Microsoft denies it has placed any such restriction on the number of senders.) This would appear to be a violation of RFC 2821, which states: "Rejection of messages (for excessive recipients) with fewer than 100 RCPT commands is a violation of this specification."

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  1. What's the bid deal? by jtroutman · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's been a fix for this problem for a while now.

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  2. Dont worry! by Ariastis · · Score: 5, Funny

    No sweat guys, for 19.99$ per year, you can become a member of the Windows MSN Live Hotmail Benefactor Plus Live rewards program!

    Benefits include :
    1) Spam whomever you want, bypassing all spam filters!
    2) Send e-mails to more than 10 recipients (Also called the "I run a mailing list you fucktard" option)
    3) Free "Upgrade to Vista (Please)" coupon.