email limits, perl script, possible time limit

[rromanczuk]

Quick question for everyone out there.

I'm setting up a site that will include a couple mailing lists. At this time, I have a prospective pool of receipients for one of the mailing lists approaching 400. I understand the limit is set to 50 mail an hour. After some research I decided to play with the DaDa mailing list software, and so far like what I see.

The question I have is regarding the programs ability to throttle emails to accomodate such limits. I've read on outside forums that some people have run in situations where the process the controls the throttling stops before finishing sending to all the receipients. In at least one case the guy says he was advised to buy a static IP to allow his to run processes for longer then 5 minutes, thus solving his problem.

I am looking for any thoughts on this. How much of what I've heard is accurate (regarding the time limit on processes, purchasing a static IP to circumvent the limit, etc), as well as any other thoughts anyone has.

Thanks!

[rando]

Quick question for everyone out there.

I'm setting up a site that will include a couple mailing lists. At this time, I have a prospective pool of receipients for one of the mailing lists approaching 400. I understand the limit is set to 50 mail an hour. After some research I decided to play with the DaDa mailing list software, and so far like what I see.

The question I have is regarding the programs ability to throttle emails to accomodate such limits. I've read on outside forums that some people have run in situations where the process the controls the throttling stops before finishing sending to all the receipients. In at least one case the guy says he was advised to buy a static IP to allow his to run processes for longer then 5 minutes, thus solving his problem.

I am looking for any thoughts on this. How much of what I've heard is accurate (regarding the time limit on processes, purchasing a static IP to circumvent the limit, etc), as well as any other thoughts anyone has.

Thanks!

Correct, we don't kill long-lasting processes for dedicated IPs, so you can do that as well. However, this only applies to processes running under apache. This means that if you use the option which sends the mail from a cron job, the mail will always finish.

But you can also buy the dedicated IP if you'd like.