I understand there are plenty of internet marketers accepting mass email assignments using ordinary webmails. Most of these email account providers allow you to send bulk mails using browser interface or a SMTP connection. Rate limits for sending emails allowed by your service provider is therefore critical for your email blast marketing.

Gmail send limit is no more than 500 recipients per message. This is allowed if you use the Gmail web interface. Restriction automatically expires after 24 hours you reach the set limit. Yahoo and MSN hotmail are set to 100 recipients per day only. Lycos is set to max 250 emails per day for only 25 recipients per message while Aol allows max of 100 recipients per message.

So if you are thinking of using your ordinary mails please consider which one will give you the most value for the kind of work you have. This valuable information applies to individual contractors email marketers only.