How to eliminate invalid e-mail address from address book

Anyone please help,

I am trying to send out an e-mail to a list of 4000 contacts. Each time
I try to send it, I get a mesage:

"The message could not be sent. The authentication setting might not be
correct for your outgoing e-mail [SMTP] server. For help solving this
problem, go to Help, search for "Troubleshoot Windows Mail", and read
the "I'm having problems sending e-mail" section. If you need help
determining the proper server settings, please contact your e-mail
service provider.
The rejected e-mail address was '''' ().
Subject 'Something', Account: 'mail.bellsouth.net', Server:
'mail.bellsouth.net', Protocol: SMTP, Server Response: '550 [PERMFAIL]
destination not valid within DNS', Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Server
Error: 550, Error Number: 0x800CCC79"

I have tried deleting the rejected e-mail address and trying to
re-send, but every time it comes up with a new rejected address. Is
there a way to get rid of all of the invalid addresses at the same time
instead of individually deleting each one. Going through a list of 4000
is taking me a long long time.

If anyone knows how to clean my address book of invalid addresses,
please respond.

Thank you,

- A



--
pinter

First of all, I doubt that your ISP would let you send to that
many recipients all at once. Most have a limit in the 50-100
range. So, call your ISP to find out what their limit is, then
divide your contacts up into chunks that size.

There is no way I know of to find all the bad addresses in one pass.

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


"pinter" <> wrote in message news:...
>
> Anyone please help,
>
> I am trying to send out an e-mail to a list of 4000 contacts. Each time
> I try to send it, I get a mesage:
>
> "The message could not be sent. The authentication setting might not be
> correct for your outgoing e-mail [SMTP] server. For help solving this
> problem, go to Help, search for "Troubleshoot Windows Mail", and read
> the "I'm having problems sending e-mail" section. If you need help
> determining the proper server settings, please contact your e-mail
> service provider.
> The rejected e-mail address was '''' ().
> Subject 'Something', Account: 'mail.bellsouth.net', Server:
> 'mail.bellsouth.net', Protocol: SMTP, Server Response: '550 [PERMFAIL]
> destination not valid within DNS', Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Server
> Error: 550, Error Number: 0x800CCC79"
>
> I have tried deleting the rejected e-mail address and trying to
> re-send, but every time it comes up with a new rejected address. Is
> there a way to get rid of all of the invalid addresses at the same time
> instead of individually deleting each one. Going through a list of 4000
> is taking me a long long time.
>
> If anyone knows how to clean my address book of invalid addresses,
> please respond.
>
> Thank you,
>
> - A
>
>
>
> --
> pinter