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I'm not sure how this ended up in Using CiviMail, I thought I had posted it in CiviCRM Core Functions.  This volume limit has nothing to do with CiviMail.   I'm talking about the core CiviCRM function "send mail to contacts" that is part of the "more actions". 

As I bring on a dozen people that have access to the core functions, I can limit one to CiviMail, but all have access to send mail to contacts.

I do want users to "send mail to contacts", but not 2000 at a time, that is what we are going to use CiviMail for.

Thanks for the reply - wanted to confirm I was just not missing something.  If others have this concern, maybe we can co-op a mod.  Otherwise, I'll see if we can hack away.   I'm thinking of a setting for how many emails can be sent by "send to contacts" and warning message to select a smaller group or contact the system administrator for a CiviMail batch.

Any one else concerned about too large a batch of emails going out for "send mail"?

Thanks - I hate trying to fix something when I've overlooked a feature.
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Somewhat a different feature or approach, our old system (not CiviCRM) has a button that stuffed all the selected contacts into the bcc of the local email client - (mailto: )  We might look at this as a possible work-around - not too concerned about volumne if the user is actually using their own email client.