

Read more about the difference between a free email account and a custom domain email here. This gives you greater opportunities as to the outreach volume and more control over your sending settings. We usually don’t recommend sending cold email campaigns from a regular free Gmail account but setting up an address on a separate domain using Workspace Google (formerly G Suite) instead. However, from our experience, it’s good to send no more than 20 messages an hour from a free Gmail account.Īdditional good-to-know: If you exceed Gmail’s limit for sending emails, your account will get blocked for 1-24 hours. Per hour: There is no official information. Per day: 100 messages maximum via SMTP (but 500 emails via browser). So it’s crucial to follow the links for the direct resources to make sure you get updated information. This blog post gets updated from time to time, but mind you that the limits may change in the meantime. Start free trial What are the email sending limits of various email hosts? The same goes for sending a few campaigns from the same email address at the same time. As all the scheduled types of emails overlap, the limits may be easily exceeded. That’s why if you have several follow-ups planned within your campaign, you should keep in mind that after a few days or weeks, not only your first touch emails will be queued to be sent a day, but also a number of follow-ups. The email sending limits posed by your provider are for all the messages sent from your address.

Remember: the deliverability of your cold emails is also crucial if you want to avoid being blacklisted. If you’re sending spam or anything that is considered spam by your recipients, you will get blacklisted anyway and probably sooner than you reach your daily sending limit. If you know the limits, and set up your delivery time and the number of emails sent daily per campaign according to those limits, your campaigns will be smoothly sent as planned and your emails won’t be considered SPAM– provided that you’re not sending poor quality content without any personalization whatsoever. you won’t be able to send any kind of email from this account for 24 hours or more. Sending too many emails a day (or sometimes even too many an hour, or a minute) may cause your email account to be blocked, i.e. While Woodpecker limits the number of emails you can send based on the pricing plan you choose, it’s your provider’s limits that you should be most mindful of.

If you’re sending your cold emails using tools like Woodpecker, which sends emails from your own mailbox (your own SMTP), the limits of your email service provider are the ones to keep an eye on when setting up your cold email campaigns.
