Why I hate Gmail
February 29th, 2008Ok, so I don’t really hate Gmail, but I am pretty annoyed right now. Every time I try to send an email, I get an alert saying “An error occurred trying to send the message”.
Despite my best-efforts to follow Gmails TOS, I believe that my account has been disabled…hopefully only temporarily. And here’s why:
I made a couple updates to emAlbum Pro last night and wanted to send out an announcement (since the updates resolved some login issues). As I mentioned previously, all of my email accounts are managed through Gmail. So, knowing that most sites/servers have restrictions on bulk emailing, I headed over to the Gmail Help Center for guidance.
According to their Gmail Sending Limits page:
“Google will temporarily disable your account if you send a message to more than 500 recipients or if you send a large number of undeliverable messages”.
Based on the above, I interpreted that to mean one (1) message cannot contain more than 500 recipients (it does say “a message” after all). So, I proceeded to break the ~900 recipients I had into 5 groups, just to be on the safe side.
When I tried to send the fifth message, I received the “An error occurred trying to send the message”. I ended up on the Gmail Help Discussion and discovered that the limit is actually a daily limit, not a message limit (as insinuated in the Help Center).
So, now I am stuck, unable to send emails…which come to think of it…isn’t so bad 
June 20th, 2008 at 4:45 am
I totally agree with you. Problems in mail sending, Autocratic disabling of A/c for unknown reasons are some of the problems. I hate Gmail and switched to Yahoo
July 1st, 2008 at 12:19 am
seems a bit harsh to complain, surely you code set up phplist (other such things are available) to do this for you
google have to place restriction in order to provide the service
Author Comment
Eric MartinJuly 7th, 2008 at 7:52 am
@sam s - I agree that restrictions are necessary…I just didn’t feel that the TOS was clear on how those restrictions are applied.