Lists of Hosts and Their Email Sending Limits

If you’re sending with your own website ("Your web host / web server" option) or your host’s SMTP account ("Third-party" option), then you'll need to be aware of the limits imposed by your host.

Tired of your host’s limitations? You can send unlimited emails per day and up to a thousand times faster with our  MailPoet's Sending Service.

Note: be sure to keep your frequencies below the limit, as your WordPress site might send other emails too, such as email notifications for new comments or new subscribers.

Host Limitations Your frequency Configuration
1and1 -6 per minute
servers
-3500 per hour in the Unlimited Pro
30 emails / 5 minutes SMTP ports are blocked with this host. Use PHPMail instead.
BlueHost 150 per hour 70 emails / 30 minutes Some plans have SMTP blocked and there's no way to unblock them
DomainFactory (df.eu) 500 per hour with Sendmail

1000 per session with SMTP
115 emails / 15 minutes

250 emails / 15 minutes
DreamHost 100 per hour 25 emails / 15 minutes

more: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/SMTP_quota
SMTP Hostname: mail.your-domain
From: Needs to be a 'DreamHost-hosted' e-mail account
E-mail Address: Enter your e-mail address.
User Name: Enter your e-mail address, again.
Password: Enter the password you set up for your e-mail account.
Secure connection: No
Authentication: Yes
Ports: 25 or 587
Free.fr 20 per task
100 per hour
2000 per week
18 emails / 15 minutes the "from" email address needs to be your_login@free.fr.
If you're using your own cron or the manual send process, you can send 15 emails every 10 minutes.
FrogHost.com 1000 emails per hour 490 emails / 30 minutes
Gmail 500 per day 20 emails / 1 hour
Google Apps 100 per hour
500 per day
48 emails / 30 minutes
20 emails / 1 hour (if you have more than 500 subscribers)
GoDaddy 250 per day on regular hosting

1000 on dedicated/virtual servers
5 emails / 30 minutes

40 emails / 1 hour (if you have more than 1000 subscribers)
For GoDaddy's own SMTP:
Server : relay-hosting.secureserver.net
Port : 25
Secure method : No
Authentication : No

Your from and reply-to email should belong to your own domain.
Goneo 250 per hour 60 emails / 15 minutes Method : php Mail Function

Your from, reply-to and bounce back email addresses should belong to your own domain.

Do not leave the bounce email field empty!
GreenGeeks 100 per hour by default 45 emails / 30 minutes
hawkhost.com 2000 emails per hour
Hivetec 80 per hour 20 emails / 15 minutes
Host Gator 500 per hour 115 emails / 15 minutes Note: Does not support third party SMTP, except for Amazon SES and SendGrid. For those, MailPoet uses their API on port 80. Cool!

List over 5000 emails aren't allowed, unless you use Amazon SES or SendGrid.
Hostinger 200/hour via Webmail, 500/hour using SMTP depending on your plan
Host Monster 500 per hour 115 emails / 15 minutes Note: Does not support third party SMTP, except for Amazon SES and SendGrid.
Hosting 2GO 50 per 15 minutes 45 emails / 15 minutes
Hotmail 100 per day Due to this limitation, you should not use Hotmail as smtp server.
Infomaniak 20 / 15 minutes 20 / 15 minutes Automatic bounce handling for Premium users: Infomaniak forces its own bounce address, so we recommend to use a third party email provider.
InMotion 250 emails per hour 20 / 5 minutes
JustHost 150 per hour 70 emails / 30 minutes
Laughing Squid Unknown. They prefer not to send any newsletters from their servers.
Lunarpages 20 per minute
600 per hour
19 emails / 15 minutes You can use your own cron task to have a better frequency (every 2 minutes)
Media Temple 50 per minute
500 per hour
max 1000 per day
115 emails / 15 minutes You can use your own cron task to have a better frequency (every 2 minutes)
Link to their guide
NameCheap Stellar - 50/hour
Stellar Plus - 200/hour
Stellar Business - 10000/hour
Netfirms 200 per hour
2000 per day
Netissime 500 per 15 minutes
1000 per day
100 emails / 15 minutes
40 emails / 1 hour (if you have more than 1000 subscribers)
one.com No official limits. Don't go over board nonetheless. Make sure your FROM address is from your own domain name.

If you send with their smtp:

1. Hostname: mailout.one.com
2. Login should be the complete email address
3. Leave the password field blank.
4. Port: 25
5. Secure Connection and Authentication should be set to “No”.
OVH via smtp Pack Perso: 500 per day
Pack Pro: 500 per day
Pack Business: 1200 per day
Pack Premium: 2000 per day
20 emails / 1 hour
20 emails / 1 hour
48 emails / 1 hour
80 emails / 1 hour
Max per hour: 100
Method : SMTP
Server : ns0.ovh.net
Port : 465
Secure method: SSL
Authentication : Yes
Your username/password
OVH via website (host) You will be blocked if more than 5% of your messages bounce (invalid email addresses) No more than 150 emails per batches Method : php Mail function
If you're sending from OVH's shared hosting solution, you won't be able to specify your own bounce address. A dynamic address is enforced by OVH. This means that you'll never be able to fully validate your SPF and have a worse reputation for ISPs(gmail, yahoo etc...)
PHPNet 100 per hour 50 emails and 2 second pauses between each batch with the manual send process E-mails are added to their own queue so you can send as many emails as you want and then their server will deliver automatically 100 emails per hour
PlanetHoster 200 per hour 90 emails / 30 minutes
Rochen 100 per 10 minutes
1000 per day
95 emails / 15 minutes
40 emails / 1 hour (if you have more than 1000 subscribers)
ServerMX.com Packages MX1 - MX2 - MX5

1 minute => 120 emails
1 hour => 300 emails
1 day => 400 emails
1 week => 1000 emails

Packages MX10 - MX20 - MX50

1 minute => 120 emails
1 hour => 700 emails
1 day => 1000 emails
1 week => 5000 emails
More info
Siteground 400 per hour 95 emails / 15 minutes List of Ports
Site5 500 per hour 41 emails / 5 minutes for SMTP connections
Synthesis 1000 per hour 250 emails / 15 minutes PHP Mail
Techark 250 per hour 60 emails / 15 minutes
VPS.net 200 per hour 90 emails / 30 minutes
Webcity 20 per 6 minutes 19 emails / 15 minutes You can use your own cron task to have a better frequency (every 8 minutes)
Westhost 1000 per hour 225 emails / 15 minutes
wpwebhost.com 200 per hour 95 emails / 30 minutes
Vexxhost 250 per hour for shared hosting
500/hour for semi dedicated
60 emails / 15 minutes
120 emails / 15 minutes
Yahoo 100 per hour
Max 500
95 emails / 1 hour

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