I feel like this should be fairly simple but no matter how I phrase it, The Google does not direct me to the correct destination. When sending an email to a large group, is there a way to print a list of email addresses that are invalid? What I mean is, you know how you get a message that tells you how many recipients the email will be sent to, how many are sending an automatic reply and how many addresses are invalid? I’m trying to print *that *. I could swear that I have actually done this before but I cannot seem to remember how. Maybe I dreamed it.
I am assuming that by “invalid” you mean email addresses that don’t exist (“nobodyhere@comcast.net”) rather than ones that are malformed (“nobodyhere#comcast.net”).
Outlook (or any other email-sending app, for that matter) has no idea whether or not an email address does not exist (or whether it’s going to get some sort of automatic reply from it) before it attempts to send it.
If you’re talking about some kind of post-mortem process where you want to know, say, two days later how many of the addresses you sent an email to replied to it (automatically, manually, or with some sort of “no such address” from the destination server), then I don’t believe that Outlook has such a feature.
Eep, that is not good news. But thanks for answering anyway 
Oh, and if anyone else has any other suggestioons, yes, by invalid I mean it tells me "this email cannot be delivered to_________ recipients because their e-mail addresses are no longer valid. It also tells me how many recipients are sending automatic replies. So, I know that “it” knows, I was just hoping there was a way I could export those names into Excel or some such. At this point I have a page full of address that I got via screen capture but that just seems dumb.
nitpick- it will if both you and the recipient(s) are on the same Exchange server.
The only way Outlook will know if an address is invalid is when you get a return email from your SMTP server that says “We tried to send this and couldn’t even find the domain” or from the intended recipient’s server that says “The email doesn’t exist on our domain.”
Even in that case, Outlook doesn’t actually “know” anything. It just knows you got an email. Not why you got it or the contents of it.
There’s no way really to make an Outlook filter for it either because each server’s response will be different. You could send an email to a knowingly-bad address (like who@hdfhfnfhsd.com) and see what your mail server sends back to you and use that response as a template for a filter. But any email you send out that is to a valid domain but a bad address (like joe-dead-guy@gmail.com) will get you a response from the valid domain’s mail server, not from your mail server.
You’re going to have to collect each return/bounce email notice and get your data from there. No exporting, just copy/paste the address in to Excel.
ETA: Yes, Jay-Z is right if you are on the same mail server (doesn’t have to be Exchange necessarily) you should get an error during sending that lets you know someone isn’t valid.
If this is for a mailing list, you should switch to a purpose-built service like Mailchimp that handles these for you. It’ll automatically take care of delivery errors, cull invalid users, and allow users to add or remove themselves from your mailing list. It also plays nicer with spam networks than one person sending a lot of emails from a single personal address.
Google Groups is another similar service, but harder to use.
Agreed!
The highlighted portion is one that hasn’t been explicitly considered yet, but might need to be.
In this era of e-mail spam, a single email addressed to more than half a dozen addressees is often treated suspiciously by email servers. There’s almost an automatic presumption of spam, just because the overwhelming majority of personal email is person-to-person, whereas the majority of emails with a high destination count are very often spam.
It’s possible your emails are going out but being rejected by the recipients’ email server as spammy (or wind up in a spam-bucket folder at their end that none of your correspondents know to check). Simply on the basis of having “too many” addressees, for a variable and probably unknowable value of “too many”.
We don’t know the kind of mailing list WOOKINPANUB is maintaining, but to gnoitall’s point, the sort of service Reply suggested might be necessary for CAN-SPAM Act compliance. If it’s just an internal corporate list, it’s a moot point, but if it’s to external addresses and in the U.S. (or includes U.S. addresses), failing to provide the ability to opt out can be a Bad Thing™.
True. Recent versions of Outlook show you the autoresponder message of recipients before you send, if the recipient is part of the same organisation.