Answers.Body: <p>If you go to "Administer>CiviMail>Mailer Settings" there are several options. You are probably looking to use Mail Batch Limit which limits the number of emails sent each time the mail job runs.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Thanks -- I was just going to post that information. Strange that it couldn't be found in the Civi documentation when searching for it.
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Body: <p>We just sent out our first bulk email through Civi 4.7.15 and WordPress 4.7.2 ... went off without a hitch, but in a matter of hours I received a nastygram from our hosting provider. Seems the terms of service prohibit sending more than 250 messages at once -- who knew?</p>
  
  <p>To comply with the provider's TOS, we need to implement rate limiting. In other words, whenever we send a bulk email, the system needs to trickle the messages out at, say, 15 every 5 minutes (not all at once).</p>
  
  <p>What rate limiting methods are available within CiviCRM to minimize the negative impacts on shared hosting servers when sending bulk email?</p>
  
Tags: <wordpress><civimail>
Title: Bulk email rate-limiting methods for CiviMail in WordPress shared hosting environment?
ThreadText: # Bulk email rate-limiting methods for CiviMail in WordPress shared hosting environment?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-02-07)
  
  We just sent out our first bulk email through Civi 4.7.15 and WordPress 4.7.2 ... went off without a hitch, but in a matter of hours I received a nastygram from our hosting provider. Seems the terms of service prohibit sending more than 250 messages at once -- who knew?
  
  To comply with the provider's TOS, we need to implement rate limiting. In other words, whenever we send a bulk email, the system needs to trickle the messages out at, say, 15 every 5 minutes (not all at once).
  
  What rate limiting methods are available within CiviCRM to minimize the negative impacts on shared hosting servers when sending bulk email?
  
  **Tags:** wordpress, civimail
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-02-07. Score: 2 | Accepted answer
  
  If you go to "Administer>CiviMail>Mailer Settings" there are several options. You are probably looking to use Mail Batch Limit which limits the number of emails sent each time the mail job runs.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Thanks -- I was just going to post that information. Strange that it couldn't be found in the Civi documentation when searching for it.  
  
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