Comments on: New Outbound Mail Quotas http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2006/04/28/new-outbound-mail-quotas/ Tips & Tricks for Dreamhosters Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:48:15 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Unofficial DreamHost Blog http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2006/04/28/new-outbound-mail-quotas/comment-page-1/#comment-393 Unofficial DreamHost Blog Thu, 11 May 2006 06:24:52 +0000 http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2006/04/28/new-outbound-mail-quotas/#comment-393 DreamHost honcho <a href="http://www.idallas.com/blxx/" rel="nofollow">Dallas</a> has also elaborated on the new limit <a href="http://discussion.dreamhost.com/showflat.pl?Board=forum_troubleshooting&Number=45840#Post45840" rel="nofollow">in the discussion forum</a>. DreamHost honcho Dallas has also elaborated on the new limit in the discussion forum.

]]> By: Pete http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2006/04/28/new-outbound-mail-quotas/comment-page-1/#comment-342 Pete Mon, 01 May 2006 23:15:22 +0000 http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2006/04/28/new-outbound-mail-quotas/#comment-342 I can confirm that DreamHost's announcement and discussion lists (in the mail section of your panel) are not affected by this. Web-based software such as PHPList have a 200 recipient per hour limit (not messages, recipients.) Exceeding it once will get your outbound mail delayed, exceeding it multiple times will get you disabled. If your mail is delayed and you aren't exceeding that you know of, there are three possibilities: a.) You're running PHP as an apache module, which means you're sharing your limit with all the other mod_php users on your machine, b.) You have an insecure script that's being abused to send spam mail. c.) Our system is broken and is not properly relaying mail from web-based programs. As for SMTP access, the limit is 100 recipients per hour. Exceeding this will get your mail rejected until the next hour, exceeding it multiple times will get you disabled. We do NOT increase this limit for customers unless you can provide compliance with our mass mail policy (more than 100 recipients an hour is considered mass mail! You couldn't possibly type that many individual normal sized emails in an hour! ... without pharmaceutical help.. and if you can, we're hiring. http://blog.dreamhost.com/2006/04/21/get-a-job/ ) Hope this information is useful to you guys. I can confirm that DreamHost’s announcement and discussion lists (in the mail section of your panel) are not affected by this. Web-based software such as PHPList have a 200 recipient per hour limit (not messages, recipients.) Exceeding it once will get your outbound mail delayed, exceeding it multiple times will get you disabled.

If your mail is delayed and you aren’t exceeding that you know of, there are three possibilities:

a.) You’re running PHP as an apache module, which means you’re sharing your limit with all the other mod_php users on your machine,

b.) You have an insecure script that’s being abused to send spam mail.

c.) Our system is broken and is not properly relaying mail from web-based programs.

As for SMTP access, the limit is 100 recipients per hour. Exceeding this will get your mail rejected until the next hour, exceeding it multiple times will get you disabled. We do NOT increase this limit for customers unless you can provide compliance with our mass mail policy (more than 100 recipients an hour is considered mass mail! You couldn’t possibly type that many individual normal sized emails in an hour! … without pharmaceutical help.. and if you can, we’re hiring. http://blog.dreamhost.com/2006/04/21/get-a-job/ )

Hope this information is useful to you guys.

]]> By: Unofficial DreamHost Blog http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2006/04/28/new-outbound-mail-quotas/comment-page-1/#comment-319 Unofficial DreamHost Blog Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:11:58 +0000 http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2006/04/28/new-outbound-mail-quotas/#comment-319 It seems that DreamHost's discussion list <a href="http://discussion.dreamhost.com/showflat.pl?Board=forum_troubleshooting&Number=44730#Post44730" rel="nofollow">is not affected by this</a>, while other mailing lists managers might have features like throttling and delayed sending (I know <a href="http://www.phplist.com/" rel="nofollow">phplist</a> has). It seems that DreamHost’s discussion list is not affected by this, while other mailing lists managers might have features like throttling and delayed sending (I know phplist has).

]]> By: amf http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2006/04/28/new-outbound-mail-quotas/comment-page-1/#comment-318 amf Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:14:09 +0000 http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2006/04/28/new-outbound-mail-quotas/#comment-318 Does this apply to mailing lists? If so they're not much use anymore... Does this apply to mailing lists? If so they’re not much use anymore…

]]> By: Simon Jessey http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2006/04/28/new-outbound-mail-quotas/comment-page-1/#comment-317 Simon Jessey Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:10:45 +0000 http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2006/04/28/new-outbound-mail-quotas/#comment-317 I think this is an excellent decision on the part of DreamHost. I'm fed up with having my emails blocked because of the actions (or inaction) of others, and this is a step in the right direction. I think this is an excellent decision on the part of DreamHost. I’m fed up with having my emails blocked because of the actions (or inaction) of others, and this is a step in the right direction.

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