So your limit is 53 in 5 minutes.... Interesting! I hadn't thought about whether adding multiple recipients counts as 1 or >1 email!
Karen -----Original Message----- From: Doug Hamilton <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Jan 28, 2014 3:09 pm Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Load testing RMail? Karen - call the ISP. They'll give you the limits. This is what I use based on maximum 53 emails allowed per 5 min. It's a little conservative, pausing at 40 emails instead of 53 and waiting a little longer than 5 minutes. I loop through the db and send the emails individually to each recipient, I'm not sure if 40 addresses in one "To:" would count as one or 40 emails. --Forced pause, RoadRunner doesn't deliver more than 53 IF vCounter = 40 THEN SET VAR vMsg TEXT = ('40 emails sent, waiting 5 min at' & (CTXT(.#NOW)) ) PAUSE FOR 320 USING .vMsg SET VAR vCounter = 0 ENDIF Doug On 1/28/2014 2:44 PM, Karen Tellef wrote: Jan: I'm thinking too whether the email server might have some kind of "spam" watcher that might not let 300 emails go through... I have an email to the IT guy telling him what I want to do. I guess I can test this by having a loop send 300 emails to my junk email address. Let's see, I can count the emails to see if I get all 300 and then delete them all. Doesn't that sound fun?? Karen -----Original Message----- From: jan johansen <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Jan 28, 2014 2:27 pm Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Load testing RMail? Karen, My limited knowledge says that there is usually a limit per hour. But in the past I've just run a cursor through the list with a PAUSE FOR xx in the loop depending on how many to send. Jan -----Original Message----- From: Karen Tellef <[email protected]> To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 10:38:51 -0500 (EST) Subject: [RBASE-L] - Load testing RMail? Now that I have RMail 9.5 up and running, it's time to think of the next issue I might run into. This client will want to send emails to "groups" of people at a time. The biggest group right now has 380 people in it; could go even higher as they continue to accumulate email addresses. I'm assuming RBase has no problem "pushing" that many emails out the door, but do I have to worry about their email server? Are there questions I can ask their IT guy? If you think that's too many to send at once, the only thing I can think of is to accumulate a bunch of "BCC" addresses. Like maybe a group of 20 BCCs at once? It would take a bit of programming but wouldn't be impossible. Or have a counter and have the program do a LONG pause at some point? Thanks for any suggestions! All I know is that they have some kind of AT&T service. Karen This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active.
