Major email script BUG

[metroarts]

My hard drive just got totaled by fp7!! I used the Send Email script to send a group email to all the email addresses in the found set. A dialog in fp7 came up and I hit the Send button. It crashed Outlook Express 6 and then damaged the Win XP System Volume Information folder on the hard drive. Now I can't access the drive at all. Anyone know anything about this problem??

[Reed]

I was brave enough to try to duplicate this... and it didn't happen for me.

[metroarts]

It didn't happen to me either until I sent a group email with more than 50 email addresses in the found set. Fp7's Send Email script did something to cause the crash. Maybe there is some upper limit to the number of addresses that Outlook can handle from fp7 without overloading?

In fp6, I never had a problem with the Send Email script -- no matter how many addresses it sent to Outlook. Fp7's email script definitely works differently -- e.g. it now puts up a Send dialog box -- and the email now goes *directly* into Outlook's outbox without allowing you first to type a message. There's a bug here somewhere...

[Michael Myett]

I just tried this with 1200 records, with the added overhead of a file attachment and it worked perfectly.

Very strange.

[BruceJ]

You guys are brave!

[metroarts]

Are you trying this with Outlook Express 6 or Microsoft Outlook? I've done tests with OE6 and found an upper limit of about 330-350 email addresses (depending apparently on the text length of the addresses) without any file attachment.

Up to about 150-200 addresses above that limit and OE6 simply won't process the Send request -- nothing shows up in the Outbox.

Somewhere above that number, fp7 will CRASH. And if the email script doesn't enter an address in the To field, OE6 will crash too. Or, in my case, even mess up stuff on the hard drive where the OE6 Outbox file resides.

At least this is what happens with *my* OE6. I've no idea if any of these problems also apply to Microsoft Outlook.

[Michael Myett]

Not really brave, I always have a full system backup no older then one week.

I am using Outlook 2003.

Also, I have managed a crash at about 1800 records, this really looks more like a system resources/email client issue rather then a bug in FileMaker.