outbound email limit

ude_zonan
Kilo Contributor

Hi All

I'm wondering if there is any maximum limit of how many email can be send out to external email addresses per day from serviceNow?

Thanks in advance

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tony_barratt
ServiceNow Employee
ServiceNow Employee

Hi Ude,



It depends on whether ServiceNow SMTP server is used - if it is, there is no imposed limit.


If an SMTP server other than ServiceNow's SMTP server is used, the answer is perhaps, as some SMTP servers may impose rate limiting.



Best Regards



Tony


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bernyalvarado
Mega Sage

Hi,



I believe the email restrictions are only around the email size (Email Size Limits - ServiceNow Wiki ) and these are configured through properties. I don't think there's a limit for the maximum number of emails that could be going out from an instance. Still, i will not be surprised if within ServiceNow infrastructure there are monitors in place by ServiceNow to deactivate a given outbound email that could have a recursive, bad or spam alike logic sending out emails in an extremely abnormal rate.



Thanks,


Berny


tony_barratt
ServiceNow Employee
ServiceNow Employee

Hi Ude,



It depends on whether ServiceNow SMTP server is used - if it is, there is no imposed limit.


If an SMTP server other than ServiceNow's SMTP server is used, the answer is perhaps, as some SMTP servers may impose rate limiting.



Best Regards



Tony


ude_zonan
Kilo Contributor

Hi Tony and Berny



Thank you for your answer. wish i can mark both as correct



Thanks again