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posted by janrinok on Sunday October 23 2016, @03:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the over-to-you dept.

From 2 very Anonymous Cowards:

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: 3, Interesting) by ledow on Sunday October 23 2016, @02:11PM

    by ledow (5567) on Sunday October 23 2016, @02:11PM (#417841) Homepage

    Get a better ISP.

    They should offer you an SMTP server not subject to such ridiculous limits (Hell, I send more than 1 email per minute doing a working day!).

    If all else false, mark your domain as allowing sending from some third party host (SFP, etc.) and do it yourself via a cheap VPS (£10 a month or less) or with an online mailing list manager

    Drip-sending email is pointless if you have 700 members.

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