Cannot send messages to multiple recipients

I can't send messages (Imessage or regular SMS) to more than one person at a time, and cannot send any picture messages. This recently started happening out of the blue on my new Iphone 4s. Any suggestions? I've tried changing the numbers of my contacts to make sure they have a +1 (area code), but that didn't work. i keep getting the red exclamation point next to the message and when i click "try again" it doesn't work. Thanks!

You should check with your SMSC number.
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Is there a way to send a text message to multiple recipients? I've been trying to figure it out for a while. I feel like this is a feature that apple couldn't have just forgotten! Anybody know?

Not supported with the iPhone - at the present time anyway with no indication that it will be supported in the future.
Apple is known for doing research so right, wrong or indifferent, I doubt this is something Apple forgot to include.
The only thing you can do is provide Apple feedback via the iPhone feedback link.

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I am having trouble sending a message to multiple recipients in the BCC field. I am sending to myself in the To: box and many others in BCC. It is not sending the message, either through my Mail program, nor through iCloud mail. iCloud mail gives me "Cannot send message. This message cannot be sent at this time." messge, but no explanation why. (iCloud mail seems to be working normally according to on-line status report). My Mail program give me a, "Cannot send message using the server smtp.me.com:(username)
The server "smtp.me.com" did not recognize the following recipients: [followed by long list of recipients all separated by commas] though it doesn't list all the recipients in the field.
Could it be that I just have too many in the field?
HELP! I'm in a time-crunch on this one.
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Can't send emails to multiple recipients any more?

Yesterday I had to send an email to some 30 other people (I only do this occasionally).
It refused to go and I received this error message:-
I have several email accounts but each one was the same.
At that time I could not even send single emails but incoming emails were unaffected.
Later in the day I received this email from my ISP mail account.
Your emails may be blocked – please confirm your alternate BT Yahoo! Mail addresses
Dear Customer,
You’ve received a ‘553’ error message because we’ve upgraded your BT Yahoo! Mail account security to help protect against ‘spoofing’ – when people use alternate email addresses to disguise the real sender, possibly to commit fraud.
What you need to do
We need you to take a few minutes to confirm each of the BT Yahoo! Mail alternate email addresses you use are genuine. If you don’t, you might get more ‘553’ error messages and have problems sending emails. Just log in and follow these simple steps. We don’t ask for any personal information.
This is rubbish and I had a similar one last year which I ignored, as the simple steps were far from simple, and the following morning all was back to normal.
So I ignored this email and tried again this morning.
I was still unable to send emails to multiple recipients but now I can send single emails OK!
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From the error message, it looks like there was a problem with at least one of the addresses ("NONE"). It is possible that a bad address is in the list you tried to send to.
I don't know anything about BT Internet, so I can't confirm the authenticity of the email you received.
You should be able to log into your BT account directly from the web without using any links sent in the email.
The email also seems to indicate you used an alias as the reply-to (from) email address.
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I have recently upgraded from my trusty iPhone 3GS to an iPhone 5 with iOS7. The phone is locked to the UK O2 Network.
When abroad multiple recipient text could be sent incurring a European Text Message Cost of 6p per recipient. So far so good. Idid not use data when I was abroad as I had the Roaming option off.
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The recipeint received a message saying that I had sent them a Media Message without the text being included. I incurred a 33p cost per multiple text instead od the texts being free.
I have never paid for texts before as I am on an unlimited text tariff.
Any suggestions other than sending each text individually.
O2 seem to be aware of this issue.
Is it an iOS7 issue, or an iPhone 5 issue?
This was never a problem with my iPhone 3GS.
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I have just read this on the Apple Site:
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Learn about group messaging.
You can send a message to multiple recipients using SMS, MMS, and iMessage.
Group messaging allows you to send messages to multiple people and have any responses delivered to everyone in the group. Group messaging works with iMessage and MMS.
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While you writing a text message, if you don't add anything photos or smileys (sometimes smileys may have counted as .gif s ), it must be sent as text messages. Or if you choose a recipent that have no phone number but a mail adress, it sends texts to mail adresses as MMS.
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Hello there
Had a problem with the above about a month ago and had remote techies on m y PC for several hours over two days trying to fix it. They said it was my PC but in the end it was a yahoo server problem. It's happened again! However, this time I can receive and send emails but not more than one recipient whereas last time I couldn't send at all.
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Hi all,
Considering the nature of the problem I am about to relate I would have to say at the outset that I would be very very surprised if other people have not come across this problem, so here goes...
We have around 60 users of Apple Mail from both 10.4 and 10.5, so varying degrees of versions of Apple Mail however most if not all are updated to 10.4.11 and 10.5.2.
We have been plagued with people being frustrated about emails bouncing back with an immediate error which is basically the following...
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Select a different outgoing mail server from the list below etc etc"
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We have even migrated some users to Entourage and the problem disappears. Even to Thunderbird, but those users miss the search capability as it is quicker and more reliable. So they want to go back.
Considering I have been struggling with this issue back in the day when we were on the Apple Mail related version in 10.4 I was hoping that the version released in 10.5 would remedy the problems. Sometimes I feel it has just got worse.
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I go back to the mail preferences > Accounts > Advanced and it shows Port 143 still there grayed out.
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Cannot send message using the server (null)

i use mail 2.1.
i have a .mac account and have three other email accounts attached to my mail account.
lately, i cannot send any email.
the switchiing ports fix hasn't helped either.
this is the error message:
CANNOT SEND MESSAGE USING THE SERVER (null)
The server response was: 5.1.0 <email [email protected]>...
From address does not match authentication.
Use the pop-up menu below to try a different outgoing mail server. All messages will use this server until you quit Mail or change your network settings.
Message from: email <[email protected]>
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no matter which one i pick it doesn't work and no email is sent.
anyone have this error before? or now how to fix it?
i'd be appreciative.
thanks
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I was about to to delete my com.apple.mail.plist, when finally it hit me.
I ran ethereal (again, I'm sorry, but learning how to use ethereal is a topic unto itself). Following the TCP stream (ie. looking at the smtp messages being sent back and forth) I came across two problems. For some reason my port number was set to 567 or something like that, when it's supposed to be 25, as I had originally set it to.
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We would want to make sure the mail settings are correct. I have sent you a private message to get more information.
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I am dependent (during the day) on a wireless connection to the Minneapolis Wi-Fi system (U.S. Wireless).
I've got an e-mail account with comcast and I have successfully interfaced this with the Apple Mail application that came with OS X 10.5.4 and for many weeks have been happily sending and receiving e-mails. But....
I've been on the road and had to connect with Hotel internet services and I was picking up free WiFi in NYC when I was there.
I first noticed the problem when I was staying at a hotel in Vermont.
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