HHHHHEEEEELLLLPPPPP!!!!! Mail won't let me send! I HAVE to get emails out!!

Question

I am a finalist in a nation-wide fiction contest, winner gets a publishing contract. Winner is the one w/ the most internet vets. So today I was sending out lots and lots of group emails and suddenly Mail stopped letting me email anything at all. I can get incoming but cannot send out. My husband thinks .Maac thinks I'm a spammer and cut me off. Meanwhile, NO ONE replies from .Mac for days. There's no freaking phone number (uh, hello. Get in the 21st freaking century, Apple). And I will LOSE this contest if I can't send out my emails. Anyone know what I can do about this??? I am starting to loathe apple. This is not the first time that Mail has really given me problems lately...
You can email me at [email protected] if you have any suggestions! thanks!

Answer 1

You're welcome.
No ISP or email account provider that I'm aware of provides a warning when you are about to reach their sending limits/restrictions.
after all, who the ** reads the entire handbook for .Mac
subscription services?!
Probably not too many but the "entire handbook" for a .Mac account is only a couple of pages at most which is the same with any ISP or email account provider and it is a customer's responsibility to do so and when we don't read all or at least a good portion of it, we don't have too much room to complain IMO.
I wish I understood what you meant by trying to get around this,
but I am too technologically dwarfed to comprehend it.
Who is your internet service provider that you use for connecting to the internet? Certainly your ISP provides an email account and SMTP server to use for their customers and if so, you can create an email account with your ISP (if you don't already have one) which you can access with the Mail application to receive and send messages with this account.
After creating your ISP's email account with the Mail.app, you can try selecting your ISP's SMTP server to send messages with your .Mac account which may get around the .Mac account restriction (which will be reset at midnight) or use your ISP's email account to send these messages but your ISP probably has a similar sending restriction. My ISP has a total number of recipients for all messages sent in a 24 hour period restriction which is higher than the .Mac account restriction.
Can I dodge this by sending things as blind copies?
No you can't. The restriction is for all recipients placed in the To:, Cc: or Bcc: fields. If not, all a spammer would need to do to send bulk spam mailings out to a unlimited number of recipients with a .Mac account is by using the Bcc: field. Most spammers use the Bcc: field anyway but spammers do not use email accounts with such limited restrictions and/or use a large number of email accounts to get around it.