SMTP question

[Adrock1795]

Now i heard you guys turn off SMTP when people spam, i sent about 6,000 emails yesterday with a newsletter script, and I see that just about none of them were sent, and now i see that SMTP is down. Would sending that much emails shutdown SMTP??

 

[Micro]

It shouldn't matter, but sendmail will stop working after the first 100 (I Believe), so you have to send 100 at a time with time space of 5 minutes (If you know what i mean). Not sure, but its a guess

 

[Adrock1795]

so the limit is 100 emails/5 minutes, so if i setup some sort of batch i should be ok?

 

[Livewire]

If I understood Micro correctly, yes.

Of course the alternative is to use a third party for mass-mailing that doesn't kill SMTP after 100 emails, but that might not be an option depending on how your website is set up.