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Exchange 2016 Maximum number of recipients in a message that's sent by the specific sender
- Aug 19, 2025
In Exchange 2016, the RecipientLimits property on a mailbox takes precedence over the organization-wide MaxRecipientEnvelopeLimit. That means if you set the global MaxRecipientEnvelopeLimit to 50 but configure a specific mailbox (e.g., user10@mylab.local
) with RecipientLimits set to Unlimited, that mailbox can bypass the organizational limit. In your example, user10 would indeed be able to send a message to 100 recipients, since the mailbox-specific RecipientLimits overrides the global setting.
This Microsoft Learn page says: If the mailbox level RecipientLimits is set to unlimited (the default value), then the maximum number of recipients per message for the mailbox is controlled by the Transport level MaxRecipientEnvelopeLimit.
Hello Dan_Snape
You are right, when I set the "RecipientLimit" to 80 for user01, I was able to bypass the "MaxRecipientEnvelopeLimit" during my tests.