# Abiding by Amazon SES's "14 emails per second" maximum send rate
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/abiding-by-amazon-sess-14-emails-per-second-maximum-send-rate/372896
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** email
**Created:** [July 4, 2025, 8:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/abiding-by-amazon-sess-14-emails-per-second-maximum-send-rate/372896 "2025-07-04T08:11:59Z")
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### Author:  [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2025, 8:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/abiding-by-amazon-sess-14-emails-per-second-maximum-send-rate/372896/1 "2025-07-04T08:11:59Z")
Is there any update on this situation? For example, is there now a `max emails per second` site setting?
The old topics I found here concerned digests, but you could imagine the “per second” maximum being breached if lots of people have are “watching” or “watching first post” a topic.
I think the site setting mentioned below is `Max emails per day per user ` which defaults to 100.
> [@How to set Email sending speed limit?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-set-email-sending-speed-limit/140974/2):
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> You can change how often summary emails get sent and change the max emails per day setting.
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> There is no rate limit setting.
> [@How to set Email sending speed limit?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-set-email-sending-speed-limit/140974/10):
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> For digests you can limit this to 14 per second by setting this Discourse global to 420, as follows in your container build file:
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> ```plaintext
> DISCOURSE_MAX_DIGESTS_ENQUEUED_PER_30_MINS_PER_SITE: 420
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> ```
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> This is not “exactly” what you want but it is darn close.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2025, 9:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/abiding-by-amazon-sess-14-emails-per-second-maximum-send-rate/372896/2 "2025-07-04T09:33:49Z")
Are you experiencing this problem? Are you going over the limit?
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### Author:  [@Jonathan5](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jonathan5)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2025, 9:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/abiding-by-amazon-sess-14-emails-per-second-maximum-send-rate/372896/3 "2025-07-04T09:49:55Z")
Good question. I’m only getting started with SES. Ideally there would be a Discourse setting to keep within the maximum. I can see that in practice it might not be a problem.
The Discouse log page `/admin/email-logs` isn’t that useful at the minute as it’s over an hour since the last set of `user_posted` emails were sent so I can’t even work out how many were sent per minute.
Is there a way to get a list of sent emails alongside time including seconds?