# SMTP with no recurring fees using Emailit – worth considering?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/smtp-with-no-recurring-fees-using-emailit-worth-considering/337898
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**Created:** [November 23, 2024, 9:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/smtp-with-no-recurring-fees-using-emailit-worth-considering/337898 "2024-11-23T09:14:18Z")
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### Author: ![ToddZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/toddz/32/328350_2.png) [@ToddZ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ToddZ)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2025, 6:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/smtp-with-no-recurring-fees-using-emailit-worth-considering/337898/21 "2025-11-30T18:40:20Z")

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Don, I’ll be interested to hear if you run into any issues with the new Emailit rate limit of 2msg/sec – or if you know something about how Discourse handles outbound mail that makes this not a concern:

> [@Does 30-minute digest rate setting divide precisely into a per-second rate?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/does-30-minute-digest-rate-setting-divide-precisely-into-a-per-second-rate/389284):
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> Continuing the discussion from [Abiding by Amazon SES's "14 emails per second" maximum send rate](https://meta.discourse.org/t/abiding-by-amazon-sess-14-emails-per-second-maximum-send-rate/372896): I’ve been thinking of switching my SMTP relay to the generous [Emailit plan](https://emailit.com/pricing) of $20 per 100,000 messages, but they’ve recently set a [rate limit of 2 emails per second](https://emailit.com/blog/rate-limit-changes). Reviewing topics that ask about rate limiting / throttling digests and emails, the only available setting seems to be DISCOURSE\_MAX\_DIGESTS\_ENQUEUED\_PER\_30\_MINS\_PER\_SITE. I don’t know if I should assume that the value for that is dist…

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