christiansongwriters.org
09-07-2006, 06:34 PM
Hi,
I run a popular, growing phpBB forum with over 1400 members...probably most have chosen to be notified when they receive a PM, and members also frequently subscribe to topics in which they post. My old host's biggest plan had no restriction on emails sent per hour, but an 80GB monthly bandwidth limit that was too low. So I thought I had found just the right ticket with BlueHost.
But...I tried to send a mass email from my forum letting our users know we were back up and running after moving hosts. Then after getting a ton of system failure messages I realized that notice went out to only the first 50 users. I called BlueHost tech support and had my domain's limit raised to 500 messages per hour, but even that isn't high enough for me to send a notice to all my members. I checked the settings available to me in the custom phpBB mod I use to send out emails...it has the ability to break mailings into chunks (like 100 members at a time), but no ability to stagger them in time.
I certainly understand the desire to prevent spamming (I hate spam)...but I do feel somewhat slighted here. BlueHost's advertising touts 2500 email accounts, so I wouldn't have dreamed that if all 2500 accounts were used, that in a given hour only 20% of users could send out one message each.
But now that I've got the whining out of the way :rolleyes: , can anyone suggest a workaround? I have another domain hosted elsewhere that doesn't have such a limit, and I suppose I could have notices sent from that one, but I'd rather our members get notification emails from ...@christiansongwriters.org than from somewhere else.
Oh, another nasty thing that happens when the limit is reached...when someone posts in a topic in which anyone has subscribed, they get an error message like:
Ran into problems sending Mail. Response: 550 message to verify they are valid.
Quote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
DEBUG MODE
Line : 168
File : smtp.php
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Any reasonable suggestions/workarounds would be greatly appreciated!
James
I run a popular, growing phpBB forum with over 1400 members...probably most have chosen to be notified when they receive a PM, and members also frequently subscribe to topics in which they post. My old host's biggest plan had no restriction on emails sent per hour, but an 80GB monthly bandwidth limit that was too low. So I thought I had found just the right ticket with BlueHost.
But...I tried to send a mass email from my forum letting our users know we were back up and running after moving hosts. Then after getting a ton of system failure messages I realized that notice went out to only the first 50 users. I called BlueHost tech support and had my domain's limit raised to 500 messages per hour, but even that isn't high enough for me to send a notice to all my members. I checked the settings available to me in the custom phpBB mod I use to send out emails...it has the ability to break mailings into chunks (like 100 members at a time), but no ability to stagger them in time.
I certainly understand the desire to prevent spamming (I hate spam)...but I do feel somewhat slighted here. BlueHost's advertising touts 2500 email accounts, so I wouldn't have dreamed that if all 2500 accounts were used, that in a given hour only 20% of users could send out one message each.
But now that I've got the whining out of the way :rolleyes: , can anyone suggest a workaround? I have another domain hosted elsewhere that doesn't have such a limit, and I suppose I could have notices sent from that one, but I'd rather our members get notification emails from ...@christiansongwriters.org than from somewhere else.
Oh, another nasty thing that happens when the limit is reached...when someone posts in a topic in which anyone has subscribed, they get an error message like:
Ran into problems sending Mail. Response: 550 message to verify they are valid.
Quote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
DEBUG MODE
Line : 168
File : smtp.php
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Any reasonable suggestions/workarounds would be greatly appreciated!
James