Bulk Email

What is bulk email? If you intend to send email to a number of email addresses on a regular or semi-regular basis then this is considered bulk email. You should not really send email to more than 10-20 people at a time.

Via Our Server

Our servers are not designed to send bulk emails. Using our servers can result in emails not being delivered as receiving servers block large numbers of emails as part of Denial of Service Attack protection or Spam protection.

Our servers are shared by many users and the effects of sending bulk email is that the server could become spam black listed which will stop all email functionality. In order to prevent this we reserve the right to prevent our server from being used for bulk mailing. These measure can include restricting the number of emails that can be sent or block access to the mail server. These measures are design to maintain the availably of service to all clients.

We recommend that if you wish to send bulk email that you either use the services of a bulk email service, install software on your computer specifically designed for sending bulk email or switch to using your IPS's mail server.

We reserve the right to revoke services for non-compliance.

Via Your ISP

If you are trying to send the same email to a number of different people you may encounter problems when sending the email. Many ISP's now operate restrictions on the number of email addresses that an email can be sent to. These are designed as anti-spam measures to prevent large bulk email spam attacks being sent out from infected computers.

What can you do if your ISP restricts the number of emails you can send.

  • The main solution to this problem is to split your mailing list into smaller lists and send emails to these list individually.
  • The other option is to use one of the web hosted bulk email services. These services are designed to be able to send emails out to large list of recipients.

 

How can I send bulk email?

There are a number of different options to allow you to send bulk email.

  1. Setup your own dedicated mail server through which you can send email for your domain name.
  2. Use bulk email software on your computer to send out emails. You may experience restrictions with your ISP on the number of emails you can send.
  3. Use one of the online bulk email services to manage your mailing lists and sending emails.

Selected online services and software