Re: Simple Email System (SES) Provider

On Sat, 2012-06-02 at 17:25 +0100, Stuart Dallas 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@pointmade.net> 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). > > * Use a service like http://sendgrid.com/. > > -Stuart > Yeah my bad, I'll blame it on the heat and my poor carbon-based processor :p -- Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk