Title: Gmail Recipient Limits
Last modified: December 23, 2017

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# Gmail Recipient Limits

 *  Resolved [n1fdadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/n1fdadmin/)
 * (@n1fdadmin)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gmail-recipient-limits/)
 * I am currently a WPForms Pro user and am very interested in your plugin. Our 
   site sends a small number of emails to a list of may 200-250 members at one time.
   I tried setting up the plugin with gmail and found that our emails were being
   rejected due to too many recipients on the emails. Is there a way to get the 
   plugin to break up an email with many recipients into several emails each to 
   a subset of the full list which gmail will accept?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fgmail-recipient-limits%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Jared Atchison](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaredatch/)
 * (@jaredatch)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gmail-recipient-limits/#post-9808726)
 * Hey [@n1fdadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/n1fdadmin/),
 * Thanks for reaching out! Gmail is a great solution for most/casual users, but
   there are definitely scenarios where is isn’t a good fit.
 * Sending to emails to more than a dozen people or sending more than a few emails
   at once are the two scenarios users will most often encounter that won’t work
   with Google.
 * Google has a limit on how many emails you can send per day, per hour, and per
   second. Generally, the first two limits are high enough that its pretty hard 
   to ever pass that. However, when it comes to emails per second, the limit is 
   around 3 (don’t recall the exact number off the top of my head, but something
   like that).
 * So given this limit, even if you took the email with 250 people and were able
   to split it up into 10 emails to 25 users, you would still encounter an issue
   as you would be well above the rate limit Google allows to send per second. We
   don’t have any way to “delay” emails or similar to get around this.
 * For your use case, I would recommend looking into Mailgun as they would be a 
   much better solution. They are specially geared for situations like this where
   you have to send more high volume (both recipients and bulk send) – they don’t
   have the restrictions that Google has. It’s a bit tedious to setup, but they 
   offer free accounts which provide 10,000 free emails/mo. We have a [guide on setting up Mailgun](https://wpforms.com/how-to-send-wordpress-emails-with-mailgun/)
   if you decide to give that a try.
 * Hope that helps! Happy holidays 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [n1fdadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/n1fdadmin/)
 * (@n1fdadmin)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gmail-recipient-limits/#post-9808748)
 * Thank you Jared, I’ll give Mailgun a look.
 *  Thread Starter [n1fdadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/n1fdadmin/)
 * (@n1fdadmin)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gmail-recipient-limits/#post-9808804)
 * Hi Jared,
 * I have been looking at Mailgun as you suggested and it looks very good. One additional
   question – does the WP Mail SMTP plugin have a means to log message sent through
   it? I have used the now defunct Postman SMTP plugin which has logging to understand
   and solve lots of email problems. Just wondering how to do this with WP Mail 
   SMTP?
 * Thank you again for all of your help!
 *  Plugin Contributor [Jared Atchison](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaredatch/)
 * (@jaredatch)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gmail-recipient-limits/#post-9808898)
 * We don’t have a logging feature (though it’s something we may consider in the
   future).
 * The good news is Mailgun has logging by default and it’s amazing. Their logging
   is way better than anything a WordPress plugin can do. Another reason why Mailgun
   is one of our favorites 😀

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 * Last reply from: [Jared Atchison](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jaredatch/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gmail-recipient-limits/#post-9808898)
 * Status: resolved