Microsoft's Office365 Limits Emails To 500 Recipients

suraj.sun writes "ZDNet's Ed Bott warns small businesses that if you sign up with Microsoft's Office 365, make sure you read the fine print carefully as an obscure clause in the terms of service limits the number of recipients you're allowed to contact in a day, which could affect the business very badly. Office 365's small business accounts (P1 plan) are limited to 500 recipients per 24 hours and enterprise accounts are limited to 1500. That's a limitation of 500 recipients during a single day. And the limitation doesn't apply to unique recipients. It's not hard to imagine scenarios in which a small business can bump up against that number."

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Google Apps has similar limits

[Anonymous Coward]

Google Apps has similar limits: 500 external recipients per day for free users. 3000 external recipients if you have a biz or edu account.

Sending limits: http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=166852

The article has been updated

[Meshach]

The actual limit is 500 emails per day per recipient [1]. Still not optimal but much harder to run into for smaller businesses.

Re:But they are protecting the world from SPAM

[Anonymous Coward]

RTFA. It says the limit is per mailbox, not per company. Still annoying sure, but the specific problem example you gave is not correct. Each of those 16,000 employees will have their own recipient limit *of 1,500 recipients since I assume 16,000 employess is not a small business anymore).

FUD

[localtoast]

This is to prevent spammers from being able to send mail from *.onmicrosoft.com. This is the online service, not to be confused with Office, the desktop app.

Re:Well this is some artificial bullshit.

[canajin56]

Yes, that is what the documentation says. But Microsoft tech support says "per organization", and the people who had the problem said that when they hit the limit, the entire company was shut off, not just the one employee.