Many large companies and small business owners host their websites and email accounts on GoDaddy servers. Therefore, email marketers also hope to send mass emails through Go Daddy email SMTP servers. This article introduces how to get the correct settings of GoDaddy SMTP server in your email marketing software.

1. In Go Daddy "My Account" Panel, click “Email”

2. Find the the email account you want to send mass emails with. Click “Manage Account”.

3. In the new window, click the Info Center icon of the email account you want to do mass mailing with.

4. In the next pop-up window, find the correct SMTP settings and port number of this email address. (Note: you can also find the daily sending quota of your email account on this page.)

5. Input the settings above into your email marketing software. Here we use 1and1Mail screen as an example.

6. Click "Test Account" in 1and1Mail to see if the setting is correct.

Now, you are ready to send out your first email marketing campaigns through GoDaddy email account with professional email marketing software.

When you are sending mass emails using 1and1Mail, sometimes you will see a pop-up message saying that: “You have reached the daily sending limit. The limit may be imposed by your email service provider or your setting in 1and1Mail.” This is usually caused by the following:

1. You have reached the maximum sending amount you have set in 1and1Mail. To increase the amount, go to Account Manager, and modify the Sending Policy of that account. (1and1Mail suggests you not send more than 100 emails per account in 24 hours. If you want to send more, you can use other email accounts with 1and1Mail Personal Edition or Business Edition.)

2. You have reached the daily sending limit imposed by your email service provider (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, AOL Mail, etc.). At this moment, your email account may be suspended and it will be recovered within 24 hours. You can verify this by viewing the Task Log. If the last few emails cannot be sent successfully, it is most likely your email accounts are temporarily suspended.

Most email service providers set a daily limit to prevent spamming. Regarding the daily sending limit and send rate of commonly used email accounts, please refer to here. If you want to go over the limit, you can use multiple email accounts and the Auto IP Switcher feature of 1and1Mail.

Nowadays, most email service providers keep a reputation score of each email account. Therefore, try to be conservative on the sending amount at the beginning to build up your reputation with the email service provider, and slowly increase it later.

We recommend you to use some affordable paid SMTP email services (e.g. GoDaddy) with 1and1Mail because they have a guarantee on the number of emails you can send out per day through their SMTP connection and high email deliverability.

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Free email service providers, such as Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and AOL Mail, usually provide free SMTP connections to send emails and they are the most commonly used channels for mass mailing.

When using the free service, you should pay special attention to the send limits and rate limits imposed by these free email providers. Through using well-recognized mass mailing software and configuring it properly, you can easily go over the limits and save significant marketing cost.

The following data is mostly collected from the official sources (namely, the official websites of Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and AOL Mail). But your email service provider may change its mailing policy without any prior notification. It is suggested you always contact your email service provider and ask about the most updated SMTP email send limits and send rate before proceeding with your email marketing campaigns.
 

Gmail Sending Limit and Send Rate

Gmail Send Limits: 100 people / connection
Gmail Send Rate: 100 people / day
Gmail Attachment Size Limit: 25MB
Gmail Restriction Expiry Method: Recovered within 24 hours after the limit is reached

Gmail will temporarily disable your account if you send emails to more than 500 recipients or if you send a large number of undeliverable messages.

If you use a POP or IMAP client (e.g. Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird or Apple Mail), you may only send a message to 100 people at a time. Your account should be re-enabled within 24 hours.

Please do verify your contacts' email addresses. It's also important that everyone you are sending mail to is willing to receive it.

Further reading: Gmail Bulk Senders Guidelines

Hotmail Sending Limit and Send Rate

Hotmail Send Limits: 100 messages / connection
Hotmail Send Rate: 100 people / day
Hotmail Attachment Size Limit: 25MB
Hotmail Restriction Expiry Method: N/A

The Hotmail limit for outgoing email messages is 100 messages per day. However, it is not a fixed number!

The limit also depends on your reputation within Hotmail. The system needs a few days to build your reputation. So, there are stricter limitations on new accounts or accounts that have engaged in activity representative of abusers sending spam. As you develop a reputation for not sending junk e-mail, Hotmail increases the number of recipients that you can send messages to.

If you are a new free user, you might be limited to a lower limit compared to an older account which is a temporary restriction and is upgraded to the maximum recipients limit as soon as the user establishes credibility in the system.

You can verify your account with a mobile number (only available in limited markets at this time): http://g.live.com/1rewlive4tup/tupp to increase the limit immediately. Please note that the SMS validation will increase the limit only if you are hitting a lower limit compared to a regular free user. If you already have the maximum limit of a free account, SMS validation will not help in increasing the limit.

Or, you can upgrade to Hotmail Plus or MSN Premium, both of which are paid accounts, to enjoy a higher sending limit.

Further reading: Hotmail Daily Message Limit

Yahoo! Mail Sending Limit and Send Rate

Yahoo! Mail Send Limits: 20 people / connection
Yahoo! Mail Send Rate: 100 people / day
Yahoo! Mail Attachment Size Limit: 25MB
Yahoo! Mail Restriction Expiry Method: N/A

Yahoo! Mail accepts a maximum of 20 messages per SMTP connection. It is suggested you cap the number of messages you send to Yahoo! Mail to fall within this per-connection limit. When this limit is reached, no further messages will be accepted for delivery as Yahoo! Mail server automatically terminates the connection (without giving an error code).

If you are sending messages to a significant number of Yahoo! Mail users, you may try to reconnect to Yahoo! Mail MX servers immediately thereafter.

You may open concurrent connections from the same server to facilitate efficient transmission of your messages under the help of email marketing software.

Yahoo! Mail also keeps reputation data about each IP address and domain you send from. Therefore, by segmenting the mail stream that delivers marketing mail from another that sends transactional messages, you make it easier for Yahoo! Mail to determine and assign each mail stream's reputation.

If you use Yahoo! Mail Plus, the outbound email messages are limited to 500 per day, and each message can be sent to no more than 100 contacts at once.

Further reading: Yahoo! Mail Basics

AOL Mail Sending Limit and Send Rate

AOL Mail Send Limits: 200 / connection
AOL Mail Send Rate: Constantly changing
AOL Mail Attachment Size Limit: 25MB
AOL Mail Restriction Expiry Method: N/A

AOL also imposes a rate limit on an AOL member when a member exceeds the acceptable number of email messages sent in a given time period. Rate Limits have been put in place by AOL Mail to curtail abuse from spammers and ensure an enjoyable online experience. The maximum number of people you can send an email to is constantly changing so that spammers cannot find out what it is. If you need to send an email to a large group of people, please break your mailing list into the smallest groups possible.

Further reading: AOL Mail Rate Limit

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