Send email rate limit for webmail providers - Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, AOL
Web Email Account Providers - email rate limits and SMTP limit
Important note: Please do NOT take this information for granted, as your email account provider can change its email policy without any prior notification. It is always a good idea to contact your email account provider and ask about the email send rate, before proceeding with a mass email campaign.
# Google Gmail Email Send Rate Limit & Restrictions
The following restrictions apply when sending emails from a Google Gmail account:
Gmail email send limit - no more than 500 recipients per message for the Gmail web interface, or max 100 recipients if you are using an email client software.
Gmail other SMTP limits - outgoing messages sent via Google Gmail can not exceed 10Mb per email (including attachments)
Google Mail Policy - http://www.google.com/mail/help/program_policies.html
Google Mail SMTP restriction expiry method - the restriction is automatically removed within 24 hours after the limit was reached.
# MSN Hotmail Email Send Rate Limit & Restrictions
The following restrictions apply when sending emails from a Hotmail account:
Hotmail email send limit - no more than 100 recipients per day.
Hotmail other SMTP limits - outgoing messages sent via Hotmail can not exceed 10Mb per email (including attachments)
# Yahoo Mail - Email Send Rate Limits & Other Email Restrictions
The following restrictions apply when sending emails from a Yahoo Mail account:
Yahoo Mail email send limit - no more than 100 emails or recipients per hour
Yahoo Mail other SMTP limits - max 10Mb per message for the free Yahoo Mail Service, or 20Mb per message for Yahoo! Mail Plus
Yahoo! Anti-Spam Policy - http://docs.yahoo.com/info/guidelines/spam.html
Yahoo Mail SMTP restriction expiry method - N/A
# Lycos Mail - Email Send Limits & Restrictions
The following restrictions apply when sending emails from a Lycos Mail account:
Lycos Mail email send limit - max 25 recipients per message and max 250 emails per day
Lycos Mail other SMTP limits - Lycos Mail does not have a limit to the attachment file size at this time.
Lycos Email Policy - http://info.lycos.com/legal/mail_terms.html
# AOL Email Send (Rate) Limits
AOL imposes a rate limit on an AOL member when a member exceeds the acceptable number of email messages sent in a given time period. The following restrictions apply when sending emails from an AOL connection:
AOL email send limit - no more than 100 recipients per message or 500 recipients per connection
AOL other SMTP limits - max 16mb per message
AOL email-outbound policy - http://postmaster-us.info.aol.com/ipt/
AOL SMTP restriction expiry method - N/A
Send email rate limit for webmail providers - Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, AOL.