How do I limit (throttle) outgoing email?

[Rick]

We have 250 paying members.

All memberships end on Dec 31st of each year.

Our hosting provider limits us to 50 emails per hour, but doesn’t send us any feedback about messages that exceed that number. (no bounce/reject notifications) Specifically, “PHP Mailer: 75 recipients per hour (i.e. same email sent to 75 recipients) OR 50 emails per hour (i.e. emails sent individually to 50 different recipients) whichever limit is reached first.”

Are all 250 notices sent at once? That means 175 will be blocked…

I searched all settings, and could not find where I can throttle outgoing email. I apparently have no control over this.

Suggestions?

— Rick

[wzp]

This is really a function of the sending process; not the plugin. Your only other alternative, besides paying extra to your provider, is to route all outgoing SMTP through Gmail.

[Rick]

FYI, it’s worse because I have learned that eMember uses a single BCC to notify members, which means NONE of our members will be notified.

Please consider adding that functionality to eMember. I can envision settings:

Maximum BCC Renewals per message: [_] 50 [_] 100 [X] Unlimited

Email Frequency [_] per hour [_] per day [X] Unlimited

According to https://support.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forums/topic/not-receiving-emails-even-though-the-plugin-sent-the-email I have to install a 3rd-party SMTP plugin. That page was started 8 years ago. How current are those recommendations?

— Rick

[Rick]

Problem resolved, but it took too much digging around.

It appears that I can install this WordPress SMTP plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-wp-smtp/) and configure it so that all outgoing email is routed through a remote sever (gmail.com) but still retain my webmaster name and email address.

Now, I won’t have to worry about any limitations imposed by my hosting provider. No need to throttle…

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