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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: 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.