Posted by ramesh.thangamani on 10/11/07 08:05

On Oct 10, 7:40 pm, Adrienne Boswell <arb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed ramesh.thangam...@gmail.com writing
> innews:1192010546.910778.245250@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:
>
> > Can anyone please tell me if there is any restriction on size of
> > mailto link or the number of email ids it can have. Because currently
> > in my application i am observing that email all is not working when
> > there are 142 ids, but it works when there are about 70 ids. Also
> > Netscape email client works fine for 142 email ids. Is there some
> > restriction on email clients or mailto has some restriction?
>
> Not sure, but I know that some SMTP servers check the number of recipients
> for spamming.
>
> If you are doing <a href="mailto:ma...@example.com,ma...@example.com,etc">
> Mail Us</a>, such a long list could be breaking the user's email client.
> Better to do it server side and set up forwarding on the mail server.
>
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Thanks Adrienne so i guess we shouldn't use mailto unless we know that
the list is going to be pretty simple.

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