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    Cracking Down on Spam

    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.
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    Re: Cracking Down on Spam

    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).
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    Re: Cracking Down on Spam

    Any email being sent out counts, 100 per hour.
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    Re: Cracking Down on Spam

    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..

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    Re: Cracking Down on Spam

    Quote Originally Posted by techairlines View Post
    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.


    Quote Originally Posted by jonathanyaniv View Post
    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.
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    Re: Cracking Down on Spam

    Quote Originally Posted by adamparkzer View Post
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by adamparkzer View Post
    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
    Last edited by jonathanyaniv; 01-10-2010 at 07:40 PM. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

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    Re: Cracking Down on Spam

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

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    Re: Cracking Down on Spam

    Quote Originally Posted by koussy View Post
    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.

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    Re: Cracking Down on Spam

    Quote Originally Posted by adamparkzer View Post
    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

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    Re: Cracking Down on Spam

    Quote Originally Posted by koussy View Post
    good idea, thank you
    setting a cron to send 90 mails each hour from a queue should do the trick.
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