On Sat, 2012-06-02 at 17:33 +0200, Matijn Woudt wrote: > On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Don Wieland <donw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I built a system in PHP/mySQL where a group of users post events, sign-up > > for events, change their arrival times, remove thier names from events, and > > post related notes on the events. Each time an action is done, an email is > > generated to the entire group that their has been a change. Pretty standard > > stuff... > > > > Today I just got an Mail Delivery System email with this error: > > > > Domain dwdcweb.info has exceeded the max emails per hour (350/350 (100%)) > > allowed. Message will be reattempted later > > > > I contacted my VPS provider and they just alerted me that there is a limit > > on how many emails my server can send per hour. > > > > They recommended I find a 3rd party service provider with support PHP API > > connections. > > > > My budget is limited. Does anyone have any suggestions of companies that > > might work for my scenario? > > > > Any feedback is appreciated ;-) > > > > Don > > > > Maybe you can group all mails to a single group together (with > contacts in BCC), so you only need to send 1 mail instead of 100 for a > group of 100 users? > > - Matijn > I would assume that each recipient would count as a single email, so if you send one email to 150 people, you'd be 25% through the hourly quota. -- Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk