Conference gyro::internet_toolss

4622.0. "MSExchange, is there a character limit for .dis lists?" by BIGQ::SILVA (http://www.ziplink.net/~glen/decplus/) Fri Apr 18 1997 08:56

	Does Exchange mail have a limit to how many characters a distribution
list can have?

	I made a distribution list, and it failed. I did it by mailing a vms
distribution list to exchange, opening it in Word, and did the following:

		changed all carriage returns with a ; <---there is a space

	I then copied it into an exchange distribution list I made. It then
went through and every address that wasn't in the internet format, it would ask
for a change. I used ELF to make the changes. And then saved it, and it failed.

	I then did the same thing, but just used the internet addresses and
omitted the vms formatted addresses. It worked fine. 

	So I then did the same thing, but took SOME of the vms formatted
addresses and converted them with elf, and that worked. So I went and redid the
distribution list, and it failed. 

	The list has about 150 people on it. So...... is this too much for it
to handle? 



Glen

	This is the wrong conference.  Ask in the Windows, Windows NT, or
  I believe that there's an Exchange Notes Conference.

		Danny

	Thanks... I went and asked there. 



Glen

chefs::exchange, hopefully

    
    	chefs::ms-exchange