Microsoft Increases Email Limit for Office 365 P1 Users
Written by Alan Wednesday, 1 February 2012 06:27
Microsoft launched Office 365 in 2011 after a lengthy Beta testing program. It’s designed to be the Office alternative for business professionals – where Google Apps hopes to get to as well. Microsoft has already been running Office Web Apps for individual users, which would be the equivalent of Google Docs. So far Microsoft has been very receptive to feedback from customers of Office 365.
Today Microsoft announced that they would be increasing the email limit for users of what they term the “P1 plan”. Previously users of this plan were limited to sending emails to 500 recipients per day, but beginning now the limit has increased by three-times to 1,500. If you are wondering why Microsoft would have this limit for Office 365 customers, while users of services like Gmail have no hard limit, then let Steve Chew explain:
“Recipient rate limits exist to discourage users from sending large volumes of unsolicited commercial email, commonly referred to as spam. These limits protect our online service from becoming a source of spam and, as a result of these protections, keep our customers’ email messages flowing. Datacenter enhancements have allowed us to increase this limit while maintaining the same level of protection.”
The email rate limit applies to both internal and external messages. However users can avoid issues by using distribution groups, which count as only one recipient each. For the moment Microsoft doesn’t have a solution for legitimate bulk email, like newsletters, and they suggest that users continue to use a third-party service.
For now users can visit Bulk Email and Daily Recipient Rate Limits to find out more about all of this. If you want a detailed announcement then you can visit the blog of Microsoft rep Steve Chew.
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