On 4/28/13 10:33 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Mark Sapiro writes: > > I have nothing to add to Mark's answer to question 1. > > > > 2- If that email consumes 200GB of my monthly bandwidth, while my > > > monthly bandwidth limit is only 8GB, sending that one email will > > > explode and break down my whole website or it will just give me an > > > error that this number is higher than allowed bandwidth? > > > > This is a question for your hosting provider. We can't answer it. > > Strictly speaking, Mark is correct. Being Mark means being always > correct, so he can't speculate. :-) I can, however. > > Experience reported on the Mailman lists over the past decade shows > that there are two common local limits. One is count of recipients. > If a single submission exceeds that, the local MTA may refuse to send > that message, and you get the error, but don't use any bandwidth. No > subscribers get the post. Not good, but usually not a disaster (for > the subscribers). > > The second common experience is that the MTA limits either count or > bandwidth, and stops sending. Then some subscribers get mail and > others don't. This is very bad in most cases. However, you get a new > allocation next month. > > The third case is that the MTA limits *and queues the remainder*. You > are now well and truly hosed. You need to get your host to delete the > post from the MTA queue, or you won't get a usable allocation for a > while.... (Note that AFAIK this case is usually applied by services > that have a daily rather than a monthly quota.)
There is a fourth case, Host Provider sends the emails then sends you a bill for the overage at the rate specified in the contract. This could be very expensive for going that much over limit. -- Richard Damon ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
