We’re excited and you will be too about the release of 1-2-All Email Marketing 4.80. This is a significant update that will enable you with multiple sending methods whereas as you were limited to a single sending method in the past. Now admins can add more SMTP servers and 1-2-All will loop through them. Sending orders can be changed, and every sending method / smtp server has its own limit of emails to send before moving on to the next sending method/smtp server. One obvious advantage to this is if your web host restricts you to a set number of emails that you are allowed to deliver per hour. Before this meant that you would have to slow the rate at which you send emails to be compliant with your sending limitation. Now that you can set up multiple SMTP servers you can move to another SMTP server or another sending method once your limitation has been met.
Other minor changes in 4.80 include bug fixes, updates to the subscription forms, and updates to sending filters.
Multiple SMTP Screenshots:
I don’t believe we have mentioned anywhere that this changes the way all emails are sent from the system. That would mean that auto-responders and auto-reminders will be sent according to the sending method order, as well as subcribe by email (pop3), subscriber importing/syncing (if opt-in option is on), etc, etc…
also… connection encryption is introduced, so longly awaited GMail support is now here (by setting the server name to smtp.gmail.com, port to 465 and encryption to TLS, without POP3 authentication).
However, do not forget that Google has above-mentioned restrictions on number of emails sent.
Any chance of creating routing rules that go with the send limits? We do not have as much of a challenge with limits as we do finding a “trusted” ISP for a specific destination domain to send from. Most we send direct and it works fine but some will bounce via direct SMTP.
What sort of routing rules would you like to be able to set?