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How do I manipulate an email with "too many recipients" and turn it into several emails?

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GaryWheeler
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My email is to 900 of my fellow alumni. My server has a limit of 500 recipients. (I don't know Thunderbird's limit.) So I cannot find a way to access my list of recipients, OTHER THAN ONE AT A TIME. What I would like to do is to be able to pull 90 out and create ten new emails with 90 recipients each. I do not want to do another three days of cutting and pasting.

My email is to 900 of my fellow alumni. My server has a limit of 500 recipients. (I don't know Thunderbird's limit.) So I cannot find a way to access my list of recipients, OTHER THAN ONE AT A TIME. What I would like to do is to be able to pull 90 out and create ten new emails with 90 recipients each. I do not want to do another three days of cutting and pasting.

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Zenos
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Thunderbird's limit is "approximately 60", if you list them as discrete addressees.

Put them into a Mailing List and there's no known limit, at least as far as Thunderbird is concerned. Your ESP or ISP may have their own limits that still apply.

kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Create_Mailing_List

Another approach is to generate one message per addressee, using a mail merge. There is an add-on that can do this, though I prefer using Libre Office with its own mail merge and smtp client.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/mail-merge/