Re: Simple Email System (SES) Provider

On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Stuart Dallas <stuart@3ft9.com> 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). > 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