# What is RateLimiter::LimitExceeded for incoming email?

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**Created:** [2016年二月17日 15:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-ratelimiter-limitexceeded-for-incoming-email/39737 "2016-02-17T15:15:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)\
**Post date:** [2016年四月6日 16:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-is-ratelimiter-limitexceeded-for-incoming-email/39737/5 "2016-04-06T16:18:11Z")

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> [@tobiaseigen](#):
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> It seems to me that rate limiting should be more generous for topics and posts contributed by email than by website. Is it?

The issue is that we poll emails every 5 minutes or so and then create posts in batch, thus hitting the rate limits. The solution is unfortunately not easy

> [@Replying too quickly ... By email?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replying-too-quickly-by-email/41562/7):
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> That is super duper hard to do, not feasible at all the way rate limits are implemented. I think the simplest thing to do here @zogstrip is to queue the post for processing in N (30) seconds if you hit a rate limit, then if it tries N times (3) then fail out. That way its pretty easy to implement and will not involve a lot of complicated bypasses to rate limits.

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