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# You can throttle your sending for each postal route

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**Protect your sending reputation**

Limit the rate of sending to large mailbox providers like Gmail for each postal route in your customer account.
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**Execute a controlled domain warmup**

Cap your daily sending volume and gradually raise it over time as part of your overall delivery strategy, warmup new postal routes and/or new sending domains.
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**Control your CPU utilization when you have a large list on a small server**&#x20;

Imposing a limit on all domains of 10K or 20K per minute keeps your CPUs from maxing out when you have hundreds of thousands of contacts running on an inexpensive VPS with a small number of underpowered CPUs. &#x20;
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**You must set a valid value for all three limits.**
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Throttles will be activated instantly and remain in effect until modified, deactivated, or deleted.

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To disable throttling click the Actions button and select Deactivate

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You can create simultaneous limits for an unlimited number of mailbox provider domains and postal route combinations

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