# Split e-mail rate limit between notification and mailing-list mode
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-e-mail-rate-limit-between-notification-and-mailing-list-mode/53556
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [November 30, 2016, 6:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-e-mail-rate-limit-between-notification-and-mailing-list-mode/53556 "2016-11-30T06:11:37Z")
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### Author:  [@vchuravy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vchuravy)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 6:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-e-mail-rate-limit-between-notification-and-mailing-list-mode/53556/1 "2016-11-30T06:11:37Z")
I just got a report from a user who is using discourse primarily via the “mailing list” mode, that he had hit the 100 e-mails per day limit.
From my understanding the setting `max emails per day per user` applies to all e-mails that discourse sends out. Would it be possible to split that setting into `max notification emails per day per user` and `max mailing list emails per day per user`? For the latter category I would like to make it unlimited (to be as close as possible to the `mailing list` use-case), and for users who primarily use the web frontend a limit of 100 e-mails seems sensible.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 6:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-e-mail-rate-limit-between-notification-and-mailing-list-mode/53556/2 "2016-11-30T06:21:06Z")
Why? This is mostly about limiting your financial downside if you are charged per thousand emails. It is also a little bit of a sanity check for users so they don’t accidentally click on a bunch of stuff and bury themselves in emails. If you run your own mail server you can safely set this limit as high as you like.
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### Author:  [@vchuravy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/vchuravy)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 6:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-e-mail-rate-limit-between-notification-and-mailing-list-mode/53556/3 "2016-11-30T06:31:18Z")
Re protecting users: From what I can tell people who have the `mailing list` feature enabled, would like to get all the e-mails. So there are two different use-cases her. One where I would like to set a protective limit and one where they intentionally opted out.
Re limiting financial downside:
We are actually running on [discourse.org](http://discourse.org) provided hosting and I was wondering if there is a limit on the number of e-mails you support. I couldn’t find any mention on [https://discourse.org/buy/](https://discourse.org/buy/).
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### Author:  [@mpalmer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mpalmer)
#### Post date: [November 30, 2016, 9:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/split-e-mail-rate-limit-between-notification-and-mailing-list-mode/53556/4 "2016-11-30T21:17:24Z")
Nope, there’s no limit to e-mail volume on our hosted plans.