My guess is that you need to get your email account verified with the
smtp service provider to send that many emails. As far as I know, you
can send up to 500 a day through gmail, so that may be an option.

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Serafino Picozzi <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Hello, I'm having a problem with actionmailer and mass (sort of)
> mailing.
>
> Basically, sometimes I need to notify every subscribed user in my app by
> mail. Since the amout of users is very small (subscription is not
> public), i thought that actionmailer would be enough.
>
> When i need to send these email I do something like:
>
> for user in Users.all
>     Mailer.deliver_notification(user.email)
> end
>
> It works sometimes, but i randomly get a "554 Policy Violation" error
> from the mail server teling something about spam protection. I suppose
> that every call to Mailer.deliver_something... opens and closes a
> connection with the server, therefore the server is probably complaing
> about that since I send almost 100 emails in a short period of time.
> Sending a single mail with multiple recipients it's not what I really
> want unfortunately.
>
> Is there a simple solution to this problem without using things like
> ar_mailer or similar? Is it really a problem for the mail server to get
> so many mails at once to send or should I complain about that with the
> mail server owners?
>
> I hope the problem is clear, my english is not so good.
>
> Thanks in advance!
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