Banning Mass Mail Scripts

[Corey]

Effective tomorrow I am banning mass mailing scripts such as "CCmail"... after looking at who actually has it on their accounts I have found no legitimate use for it or some other popular mass mailing\mail bomb scripts. We are not a mailing service, we are a web host. If you have forums, etc, you can still mail your users from there. Also remember do not exceed 100 emails per hour or you will be suspended.

These mail scripts have caused 99% of server load issues over the past few days.

-Corey

[Danielx386]

What about the mailing list in Cpanel? Are they pernitted?

[Corey]

Yes, those are permitted. I'm mainly talking about PHP scripts designed only to send out email.

[lithaerien]

Sounds good.

[mc se7en]

Awesome. Can we expect to see pickups in speed, etc of the servers without these scripts?

[Livewire]

Awesome. Can we expect to see pickups in speed, etc of the servers without these scripts?

Of course

Also expect more posts in Free Hosting about it though.

[mc se7en]

Of course

Also expect more posts in Free Hosting about it though.

I guess that's the price we pay for performance. :P

[jonathanyaniv]

What about Wordpress? Like I have Wordpress on my site, and when new users comment / register / contact me, the server sends me an email.

Will that be stopped as well?

And I'm happy about the service load improvements. Way 2 go Corey! Thanks!

[Livewire]

What about Wordpress? Like I have Wordpress on my site, and when new users comment / register / contact me, the server sends me an email.

Will that be stopped as well?

And I'm happy about the service load improvements. Way 2 go Corey! Thanks!

That ain't a mass-mailer, that's a single-mailer. Also:

If you have forums, etc, you can still mail your users from there. Also remember do not exceed 100 emails per hour or you will be suspended.

That'd include the mass-mail feature inside phpBB for instance - you can still do it there, just don't send more than 100 an hour (or about 1 a minute) or it'll get suspended anyways.

[xav0989]

basically, you may send maximum 1.6 message a minute, but it needs to be attached to a functionality of your website/forum/blog.