共享主机邮件限制解决方法

Question

so i have a couple of sites on paid shared hosting, my host limits the mail to 300 per hour. One of my sites has more than 500 subscribers.

My question is how can i send the newsletter to all my subscribers? is there a way or a script that i can use to send the first 300 users the email and after an hour to send the rest...?

i've also considered making a gmail account to send the newsletters via smtp. Do you guys know the limit of free gmail smtp?

Answer 1

Thank You for all your Reply guys... it really helped me find a solution for this inconvenience. I personally can't afford VPS hosting nor pay extra for an external for a mail server...

Considering Jonathan Solution and William's Comments i ended up developing a small php application based on XML to send different batch to 250 recipients each with a GAP of 65 minutes.

So the way it works, by default it only enables the first batch link to be clicked and send the newsletters to the first batch of users and recording the exact time this was sent in a XML file. Then using the XML file info the next link registers that the batch before it was sent and starts a count down of 65 minutes with the time on the XML as reference.

So a Script will not be running for hours and the browser could be safely close since all the info required is in the XML file.

This may sound Simple but is a complex and efficient app that dynamically adapts to growth (new subscribers) as it queries the master Table on a database using the sql LIMIT clause to make the different batches. So it doesn't required maintenance.

If anyone is interested on the source code feel free to contact me @ [e-mail]