# How to set Email sending speed limit?

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [February 7, 2020, 10:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-set-email-sending-speed-limit/140974 "2020-02-07T10:20:05Z")\
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Did you ever find a solution? I’m about to switch to Amazon SES and just realized that our initial limit is 14 emails per second. I’m not sure how quickly Discourse is going to send them into SES. The site sends a lot of email.

Does anyone know the maximum rate that Discourse sends emails? Will it try to send more than 14 per second?

If it sends too quickly, I’m wondering if it might be a good idea to write a script that evenly spaces the digest sending times for all the users across the week instead of sending the bulk of them on one day (our import anniversary).

**Edit:** I realized that I could figure out if this is a problem by checking the Mandrill logs. Unless I’m looking at some extra throttling from Mandrill, I think we have a maximum of about 8 emails per second, so it should be fine.

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