Re: Simple Email System (SES) Provider

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On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Stuart Dallas <stuart@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2 Jun 2012, at 17:20, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Dunno how mathematics works in your universe, but 4 * 150 != 350 in the one in which I live :)
>
> Don: Options...
>
> * Switch to a dedicated server, or a VPS host that doesn't have that limit.
>
> * Use Gmail or another hosted email provider (may have a similar limit but I've never run into it with Gmail).
>

Stuart,

If the facts are still correct (based on numbers from 2008), Gmail has
a limit of 500 messages a day, with a maximum of reaching 2000
recipients a day.

- Matijn

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