How to set a limit on emails per day for each user? / Sending limits of Gmail as SMTP service

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In a support discussion about setting email sending limits per user and Gmail’s SMTP limits, copymonopoly asks how to limit users to 3 emails per day using BREVO (which offers 300 free daily emails) and inquires whether Gmail’s SMTP service has a 2,000-email daily limit. ufukayyildiz suggests searching settings for “max emails per day per user.” Architect confirms the 2,000-email limit applies to paid Google Workspace accounts, not free Gmail. copymonopoly follows up asking whether free Gmail accounts offer SMTP service at all or with a smaller limit. Architect cites an article stating free Gmail accounts can send up to 500 emails per day via SMTP, while Workspace accounts can send 2,000. Architect notes they haven’t personally used Gmail for SMTP and can’t fully verify the article’s accuracy. The discussion centers on configuring per-user sending limits and clarifying Gmail’s free vs. paid SMTP capabilities.

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I use BREVO, which offers 300 free emails per day.The email volume is relatively small. I want to set a limit of 3 emails per day for each user.How can I set this up？
By the way, I saw that the Gmail SMTP server has a daily limit of 2000 emails. Is that true?

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search for in settings

max emails per day per user
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That looks to be true, but for google workspace that you need a paid subscription for (starting at $6 a month) not free gmail.

### Considerations

When using the Gmail SMTP server:

** The sending limit is 2,000 messages per day.*

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Thank you for your information. I have a follow-up question: does the free Gmail account not provide SMTP service at all, or does it provide SMTP service with a smaller limit?

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According to this article there is a free smtp sending option of up to 500 e-mails a day:

**Prerequisites and limitations

To use Google’s SMTP service, you need to have either:

1. A free Gmail account, like someone @gmail.com, which allows you to send up to 500 emails per day.
2. A paid Google Workspace account, like someone @mycompany.com. Google Workspace accounts can send up to 2,000 messages per day.

Haven’t used gmail for smtp sending myself and not certain this is all accurate information at that page.