Forum emails

[PHyndman]

I have a forum (YAF) integrated into one of the sites on my semi-dedicated Windows server - it's been up a week and already has almost 300 members.

With the limit of 1000 emails per hour on a semi-dedicated server I've disabled the email notification function of the forum as I can see it quickly overtaking my limit.

Users are beginning to bitch about it (give people something for free and they're never happy ) - I'm sure I've read somewhere in this forum or on one of the eUK knowledgebase pages that automated mail (e.g. sendmail etc) isn't included in the monitoring - can someone confirm whether mail sent from a forum in asp.net would be included in my hourly limit?

Apologies if this is repeating a question that's been asked before ... but want to be able to provide a definative answer to my client when they start griping (or even better turn emails back on)

[eUK-Martin]

Hello,

Any email that is sent locally (domain on the same server) is not included. But any email that sent to a domain that is not hosted on your server will be included in monitorring whether it is sent from a script or an email client.

[PHyndman]

Thanks Martin- I'll let my client know they can't have the email notifications!

[jc8654]

Sometimes you can limit the forum to only send so many emails per hour. If you have 1000 in total, if you set it to 500 that would still leave another 500 for normal emails on the server. Granted, there would still be a lag but it wouldn't be too bad.