>Hi All, I'm trying to send a monthly newsletter by email to a local club I'm a member of, we are about fifty in number, in testing I decided to send it to myself fifty times, the problem I'm having is the mail server chokes on iteration 25 - the error being: Too many messages, I've tried inserting a Sleep(1000) but it doesn't help- any ideas ? this is the main guts of the prog
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>for (i = 1; i < 1000; i++)
>                {
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>                    client = new SmtpClient();
>                    client.Host = MailServer;
>                    client.Timeout = 50000;
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>                    from = new MailAddress(MailSender);
>                    to = new MailAddress(MailRecipient);
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>                    message = new MailMessage(from, to);
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>                    
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>                    StringBuilder messagetext = new StringBuilder();
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>                    messagetext.AppendFormat("This is message # {0}", i);
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>                    message = new MailMessage(from, to);
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>                    message.Subject = "Testing bulk email";
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>                    message.Body = messagetext.ToString();
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>                    client.Send(message);
>               }
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If you were really sending to different recipients you could just loop through the list adding each one using 'MailMessage.To.Add(emailaddress) and perform just one send at the end.
HTH,
Viv