Re: Email Tools to control mass email flow

[Travis Foschini <travis.foschini () COLUMBIASOUTHERN EDU>]

Stacy,

It sounds like "GroupMail Business Edition" will help you with sending / queuing batch email.

Secondly, have you had any trouble with unusual queuing of outbound email when sending through the Barracuda? We're 
having trouble when one user exceeds the threshold and that users emails get deferred, most emails from other users are 
also deferred and significantly delayed.  The issue may be specific to the our implementation with Exchange 2k7 and the 
Cuda virtual appliances, but we have a long running support case with them. With any luck, Cuda will figure out the 
conditions and fix the issue. I thought it worth mentioning because you mentioned setting your limits low, and we set 
ours high because hitting the limit does bad things to non-offending users.



Regards,

Travis W. Foschini
From: Slocum, Stacy [mailto:sslocum () SJFC EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 11:33 AM
Subject: Email Tools to control mass email flow

Hello All,

We rate control outgoing email (and set the rate relatively low) to avoid successful phishing/malware attacks from 
getting out of control.  We use a Barracuda 600 for this purpose.  Over time some end users have been exempted from our 
limiting scheme because of a regular need to send out mass emails in numbers larger than our limit putting our little 
strategy at risk.

Does anyone know any products or hosted services that would allow a user to send a mass email out but break up the 
sending into some number of emails at a time over a period of time?  Or perhaps another option?

Thanks in advance,

Stacy Slocum
Chief Information Officer
St. John Fisher College
3690 East Avenue
Rochester, NY 14618
Office: (585) 385-8388