For performance and anti-spam reasons, all email sending is throttled to 200 emails per hour. If you attempt to send more than 200 emails per hour, only the first 200 will be successfully delivered. The remain messages will be bounced to the sending address with the message:
Domain <DOMAINNAME> has exceeded the max emails per hour (200) allowed. Message discarded.
Where <DOMAINNAME> is the domain name used to send the volume of emails.
If you need to send out more than 200 emails, you do have options.
1) The simplest and most cost effective solution is to install a mailing list script which has the ability to send out email in batches. We offer PHPList which is available as an auto-install script through Fantastico in your cPanel. If you need assistance with configuring PHPList, there is extensive documentation on PHPList's site here:
We recommend that you set your sending limit well below 200. When configuring your mailing list, you will want to leave some allowance for day-to-day emails.
2) Some mailing lists' sending frequency would make it difficult to abide by our sending limit. Imagine you have a 6,000 address mailing list that gets sent out daily. With our 200/hour email sending limit, you would only be able to send out 4,800 emails per day. In such circumstances, the bulk email requirements of your site may not be suitable for shared hosting. With such large email volumes, a Virtual Private Server or Dedicated Server would be more apt to meet your sites' needs. We have recently rolled out a new line of VPS plans, with a range of pricing to meet your fiscal limits. Full details can be found here:
Our new SPARK package should be adequate to handle the email needs of a large list, though only you as the webmaster truely know the requirements of your site.
If you feel a purely Dedicated solution would better handle your email sending, we offer a wide range of Dedicated servers. Full details on our Dedicated Servers can be found here:
