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Two of us volunteer to manage a private website with about 700 members, constantly rotating in and out (they are mostly undergrad students). For this we use low cost webhosting and recently found out that the email account (same ISP & domain name) only allows 60 outgoing emails/hour. Thus when we want to email the whole membership (a couple of times per year) we are going to have to break the list into a dozen pieces.
It would be nicer if we could submit the whole list at once. We don't mind if the emails are sent "drip feed" with one going out every minute or so.
Anyone ever seen anything like this? I tried a few search strings and didn't find anything, but my Google-fu may be bad today.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by edIII on Sunday October 23 2016, @05:46AM
I've seen something like on occasion while provisioning mail servers. It's not a terrible idea either, but does assume something about the customer that doesn't apply in this case. For normal people, they might not send more than 60/hour. I've also seen variations that limit total addresses in an email too.
I would suggest simply asking the ISP to raise it on your account, as the limit may be account based and not server based. If they're doing it for anti-SPAM reasons, then thank them for the neat idea (be nice) but say that you're use case requires you to send out membership advisories a few times per month and if they could raise it to 1,000 that still sufficiently cuts the legs off any hackers/spammers/assholes that compromise their webserver.
Barring that, I suggest that piece of Unix code or the bash script on your webserver to break it up. If you want a bigger solution than that, then create an email server using virtual hosting and set it up well (rDNS records, SPF, DKIM). That can still be low cost ($20/mo), and have a nice mail server that other mail servers are less likely to reject.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 24 2016, @01:55AM
> asking the ISP to raise it on your account,
Bingo, thanks! Don't know why we didn't think of this -- will try it first. These mailings to all ~700 members only go out two or three times a year. The rest of the time the email traffic might be a few messages per day.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 30 2016, @03:22AM
Success!!
A simple request to our ISP and they raised our one-day limit to 500 emails (no hourly limit as initially). It's no problem to split our list in half and send two batches over two days. And as noted initially, we only do this 2-3 times per year. Problem solved, thanks again for all the suggestions.