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You're prompted to remove recipients before you can send a message
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This solution article provides information to users who are prompted to reduce the number of recipients while trying to send an email.
Symptoms:
When you try to send an e-mail message to multiple recipients, you may receive an error message that states that you must remove some recipients before you can send your message.
What does this mean?
To help reduce the amount of junk e-mail (Unwanted, unsolicited, or illicit e-mail or other electronic messages, including spam.) sent from Windows Live Hotmail accounts, we limit the number of recipients that you can send a message to at one time.
What should you do?
As a workaround so you are able to send your mail, reduce the number of recipients to the number that is indicated in the error message, and then try to send your message again.
The limit depends on your reputation within Hotmail. The system needs a few days to build your reputation. So, there are stricter limitations on new accounts or accounts that have engaged in activity representative of abusers sending spam. As you develop a reputation for not sending junk e-mail, we increase the number of recipients that you can send messages to.
If you are a new free user, you might be limited to as low as 10 max recipients limit which is a temporary restriction and is upgraded to the 100 (previously it was 50 - changed in Sep '09 update) max recipients limit as soon as the user establishes credibility in the system.
If you are a paid user, you can add up to 100 recipients to an outgoing email.
