1 Jul
2016
1 Jul
'16
10:51 a.m.
I would be looking at sending through the SMTP servers or API of a dedicated emailing service like MailJet for this sort of thing. You have to be very careful around the area of authorised senders and blacklists when doing bulk sends. Hosted Exchange and Gmail have limitations like daily\hourly recipient and message rate limits, you can't change the 'reply to' address and stuff like that.
Taking MailJet their free plan gives you 200 emails a day, their basic paid one is $7 a month and gives you 30,000 emails.
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Alan Bourke
alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Thu, 30 Jun 2016, at 05:39 PM, Andrew Stirling wrote:
> Hi
>
> I use Fastmail to allow my clients to send wage slips to their employees
> in my payroll program.
> Currently it is down:
> http://www.fastmailstatus.com/
> So I suppose I should set up another email provider to forward these
> emails if/when Fastmail fails.
> So how can I tell if Fastmail is down?
> I do get an error after 10 seconds, 1429
> OLE IDespatch exception code 0 from?
>
> Any thoughts/code much appreciated, who else to use?
>
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> Kind regards
>
> Andrew Stirling
> 01250 870397 / 874580
> 07910467915
> support@calcpay.co.uk
> http://www.calcpay.co.uk
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