Cracking Down on Spam

[Corey]

Hi Everyone,

Starting Wednesday we will be automatically suspending any users that send over 100 Emails per hour from their account. It is important you make sure you stay under this amount as you will not be able to unsuspend yourself for this infraction. You must have staff do it each time so your site could remain suspended for as long as a day.

So to recap my very short paragraph above, you are only allowed to send 100 emails per hour. This is for free hosting only.

[techairlines]

Hmm what about Wordpress Comment Moderation emails? If for some reason we get a lot of comments in an hour (and since after accepting a comment, another email alerts of a new comment being published).

[Corey]

Any email being sent out counts, 100 per hour.

[jonathanyaniv]

I for instance, have changed my mail for my domain to be hosted by Hotmail. The 100 / hour rule doesnt imply to me, does it?

Just want to make sure..

[adamparkzer]

Hmm what about Wordpress Comment Moderation emails? If for some reason we get a lot of comments in an hour (and since after accepting a comment, another email alerts of a new comment being published).

Do you regularly get 50 legitimate comments to your blog posts per hour? I just scrolled through your website, and I couldn't find a single post that even had 50 comments all together...

As for spam posts, you could install Akismet, which will block most of them, and for the ones that do get through, you can just reject them so they only send one email and not two.

I for instance, have changed my mail for my domain to be hosted by Hotmail. The 100 / hour rule doesnt imply to me, does it?

Just want to make sure..

The emails that are sent via the PHP mail() function and through the cPanel web mail still count.

[jonathanyaniv]

Do you regularly get 50 legitimate comments to your blog posts per hour? I just scrolled through your website, and I couldn't find a single post that even had 50 comments all together...

As for spam posts, you could install Akismet, which will block most of them, and for the ones that do get through, you can just reject them so they only send one email and not two.

I found another way, go into your Wordpress, and go into your Discussion settings, and check off, "Users must be registered and logged in to comment". (This helps significantly)

Uncheck "Anyone posts a comment " and "Comment is held for moderation"

Also use Akismet, like Adam has stated.
Edit:

Do you regularly get 50 legitimate comments to your blog posts per hour? I just scrolled through your website, and I couldn't find a single post that even had 50 comments all together...

As for spam posts, you could install Akismet, which will block most of them, and for the ones that do get through, you can just reject them so they only send one email and not two.




The emails that are sent via the PHP mail() function and through the cPanel web mail still count.

Good, cause I hardly use either.

But good that you guys are combating spam

[koussy]

what about news letter? if I send more than 100 mails in one hour?

[adamparkzer]

what about news letter? if I send more than 100 mails in one hour?

If you send out a newsletter using the PHP mail() function and it exceeds 100 in an hour, you will be automatically suspended.

I recommend splitting your recipients into groups so if you have more than 100 people receiving your newsletter, you don't send it to all of them at once. You can try mailing out about 90 or so at a time (leaving 10 as a spare just in case you need them elsewhere) every hour.

[koussy]

If you send out a newsletter using the PHP mail() function and it exceeds 100 in an hour, you will be automatically suspended.

I recommend splitting your recipients into groups so if you have more than 100 people receiving your newsletter, you don't send it to all of them at once. You can try mailing out about 90 or so at a time (leaving 10 as a spare just in case you need them elsewhere) every hour.

good idea, thank you

[xav0989]

good idea, thank you

setting a cron to send 90 mails each hour from a queue should do the trick.