Hi I use gmail for email on our site. anyone know the recommend settings for preventing the account from getting blocked?

gmail will permanantly disable an account if you send over a certain amount of messages in a period of time.

also - if there was a way to use more then one email send from account that'd be cool.

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zyxware commented
Title: gmail setup? » How to use mailq to send emails within mail limits imposed by gmail?
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Well mailq could help you do that. All you have to do would be to set batch size in mailq configuration to within the gmails limits and then set cron to run in such a way as to never exceed the limit set by gmail.

Also do try out the latest latest release - http://drupal.org/node/1333638. You will have to uninstall the existing module and install the new version as there is no upgrade path as it is.

BTW how do you use gmail? Using smtp module?

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captaingeek commented

using google apps and http://drupal.org/project/smtp smtp auth module.

im pretty fed up with gmail google apps though many sent emails will be blocked delivery by gmail google. Also they will lock up an account if you send to many emails (even within their guidlines) and not tell you why.

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captaingeek commented

I shall test the latest release

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captaingeek commented

sorry to say im still getting 500 errors more details to come.

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anish_zyxware commented
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Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

The errors are handled in #1040628

The gmail limits can be imposed using batch size. The limits for google apps can be found here.

https://support.google.com/a/answer/166852?hl=en