WP 'There is a new post at..' sends mass email. Afraid of getting blacklisted.

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Posted by kandyjet, 07-05-2015, 05:27 AM
Hello, we have a news blogger in our shared hosting server having 1000s of subscribers. Every time he make a new post, 1000s of emails are sent to subscribers with the title "There is a new post at..". He seems using the 'webfish email subscription' plugin http://www.webfish.se/wp/plugins/email-subscription.So for exmaple, if he make 10 posts a day, it would be a large number of emails will be sent out. But i am not sure are all this legitimate subscribers. Coz i have some doubt that when he make new posts, my ip seems getting black listed from spamhause, outlook etc. So can this be a reason for black list? coz my server is free from spaming and havent had any hacks recently. but i am getting ip black list very often. Please advise.
Posted by brianoz, 07-05-2015, 07:18 AM
Get him to install a plugin to move his email sending off your server onto sendgrid or mandrill; then no risk at all to you. It's unlikely this would cause you problems in any case.
Posted by kandyjet, 07-05-2015, 07:29 AM
Thanks brianoz, ill advise him to install one of the plugins on to this site.
Posted by sabrina84, 07-05-2015, 03:16 PM
Hi, Kindly check the subscriber ip address, is it single or multiple, from one country or different country. I know it is time consuming job, but one time you have to do it next day you will get less. You know few days before i had a server where one 100GB bandwidth utilize in just days, after that i found that bandwith got spoiled by few ip ranges, after sorting this issue, my bandwidth issue relax and site performance also got improve. Last edited by Postbox; 07-05-2015 at 11:21 PM.