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I don't know anything about email software, but would it be difficult to add a popup after hitting the "Send" button that would appear only if there were more t
by garraeth 6y ago
I don't know anything about email software, but would it be difficult to add a popup after hitting the "Send" button that would appear only if there were more than X recipients (w/ a user-configurable minimum and sane default)?
Something like: "This email will be sent to 5,000 people. Are you sure you would like to send it?"
- Znafon 6y agoThis would not solve the issue when the email is sent to a mailing list.
- mdturnerphys 6y agoWhen the mailing lists are internal Exchange-based lists Outlook can check how many people are on them.
- Analemma_ 6y agoIME email storms are most often for one of two reasons: - someone mistakenly sends a mail to List B instead of List A, so everyone on List B goes "Huh? Remove me from this" - someone correctly sends an email to List A, but List A was poorly configured and people were put on it without their knowledge and respond in confusion A "too many recipients" warning wouldn't help with either of these cases.
- user5994461 6y agoOutlook does that by default when the email goes to more than a few hundreds people. Don't remember the exact limit. It also works if it's a single destination email that happens to be a distribution list with 500 people.
- vxNsr 6y agoThey do it by default for all distribution list sizes, I have a list with 4 ppl in it and it still lets you know how many ppl will be getting your email.