I just sent a mass email out to the members of my forum and got a message that lots of them hadn't been sent because there is an email limit. I see from looking through the first few pages here that it's a limit on all accounts and that I would have to send them out over a period of time. However in the forum I use there isn't an option to do this, just to send them in one go. Does anyone know a way around this?

Thanks

It's phpBB 2. I don't seem to have the option to send out emails individually, just as a mass (and we have more than a thousand members, so well over half of them won't be getting the message)

Thanks. That one is for phpBB 3 though, not 2, so it doesn't work. i can't find one for phpBB 2.

Any other ideas or is this the only way?

At least three options to explore:

1) Can you export your list of email addresses, and then use something like PHPlist, which can throttle its mailing rate?

2) Convert to SMF version 2, which can throttle its mailing rate. Note that this is at Release Candidate status (almost ready for general release). SMF version 1 can not throttle its mailing rate. If you're not willing to go from phpBB2 to phpBB3, this may be out of the question...

3) Can you hand modify the phpBB mailing code to put a sleep(12); or whatever after each individual mail() call? I looked into doing this once for SMF 1.1, but I don't know if it's applicable to phpBB.