SMTP Emai to multiple recipients

[andyh]

I'm using the "SMTP Email Send Message (Small).vi" (Labview 7.1) to send alarm messages to my cell phone using my phonenumber@vtext.com.  I'm using the verizon mail server "smtpsp.vtext.com".  I am having no trouble sending the message to one recipient, but cannot send to multiple recipients.  I've tried seperating the second email address with commas, semi-colons and even a space.  With the following in my recipient text input phonenumber@vtext.com,phone2@vtext.com or phonenumber@vtext.com;phone2@vtext.com I recieve the following error...

SMTP:
501 #5.5.2 syntax error 'RCPT TO:<5551234567@vtext.com,5551234567@vtext.com>'

If i seperate with a space or a return, i only send to the first recipient.

In a previous post, i see that user_1 suggests the comma, but it's definately not working for me...

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=261961&query.id=48976#M261961

any ideas?

[MikeS81]

Hi andyh,

did you read the context help?

May be a solution for you could be to call this vi in a loop.
Hope it helps.

Mike

Message Edited by MikeS81 on 05-23-2008 02:48 PM

[andre.buurman@carya]

The small function is meant for just one recipient. Use the normal version of this function for use with multiple recipients, it has an array of recipients as input.

[andyh]

I did read the context help...but my context help didn't have the red underline like yours...so i missed it.

[ajckson]

Another option would be to continue using the single send.
 - Create an array of email addresses that you wish to send messages to.
 - Check the size of the array, size = n.
 - Run the for loop n times and use the for loop to automatically index the array.

There are also a number of web services available to bulk send txt messages.

Good luck.