Utility: Email Address List Maintenance

Click Sample list and then Go above to see an example of how this web page works.

The purpose of this web page is to help maintain lists of email addresses. The list can be a mixture of email addresses and non-email addresses. The items can be separated by commas or spaces, and can be on separate lines. The email addresses may or may not be enclosed in “<>” characters.

These same rules also apply to the optional “Do-not-email list.”

Clicking Go causes the email addresses in the main list (top text box) and in the “Do-not-email list” (third text box) to be extracted, converted to all lower case, and sorted alphabetically. Then all duplicates and “Do-not-email” addresses are removed from the main list.

Following this, if a number was entered into the “Maximum email addresses:” box, then the email addresses are broken up into groups. The reason that you might want to do this is that some email systems limit the number of email addresses that can be “mailed to” at one time. For example, Hotmail.com limits the number of email addresses to 50 at a time. In this case “50” should be entered into the “Maximum email addresses:” box. Then when Go is clicked the extracted email addresses will be split up into groups of 50.

1. After clicking Clear, “Copy/Paste” your own list of email addresses into the first text area above.

2. If applicable, “Copy/Paste” your “Do-not-email list” into the third text area.

3. If applicable, enter the maximum number of email addresses for your particular email system (For Gmail, it’s 500) into the “Maximum email addresses:” box.

4. Click Go.

5. “Copy/paste” the reformatted list from the bottom text area above, one group of email addresses at a time, into your email message’s “To:,” “Cc:” or “Bcc:” field.

Questions, comments and suggestions are welcome.
Howard Charles Best ()