thank you for the help mberan.
thunderbird is infinitely better than outlook....but it still suffers from the same crippling defect.
is there some way to get around it? a way to tell it not to do that perhaps?
or is that just something that all mail managers do? it seems like such a simple thing to avoid. if you were using hotmail or something like that you would just get back a reciept that said it couldnt be delivered....but nooo...these fancy programs nowadays have to prevent you from sending it in the first place; preventing you from sending anything else in the process.
somebody please help me fix this. i really dont wanna keep having to try to send an email, have it get denied, find the culprit in my address book, delete said culprit, then repeat over and over again until all the invalid email addresses are gone.
New Info: i took a break from typing this to work on the email thing some more and when i sent it to ferret out the bad contacts, it actually got sent instead! i promptly got back 7 reciepts telling me that a number of messages couldnt be sent.
if you thought i was confused before; you should see me now. i dont even know what to think.