Probably nobody knows about it but if you try to abuse gmail service to send mails like more than 500 recipient at a time or sending mails to un reachable email addresses get ready to get your accounts disabled from 25 to 74 hrs or gone for ever.

Here are some fact which

• If you access Gmail via POP or IMAP clients (like Microsoft Outlook) and send mail more than 100 at a time your account will be disabled for a day. Error “550 5.4.5 Daily sending quota exceeded.”
• If you access Gmail from the browser, you can not send email to more than 500 people at a time.Try it and your Gmail account will get probably disabled for 24-72 hours. Error: “Gmail Lockdown in Secton 4″
• There are 2 more which you can read at DI
• Download Squad Suggest to use listserver which I will be taking a look soon.

This is a good thing to take care of spammers, However you need not to worry so much if you are a normal user. Sending that amount wont just happen. However if you plan to do some mass mail, best is creating groups on Google or even on Yahoo

About The Author of this article: Ashish is one of the co-author of this blog and writes on various interesting softwares, PC tips and more. You can read more of his articles here.

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