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Hello everyone,

I'm using an automation that links to my Outlok account, sending an email via Airtable.

After a successfull 15 emails sent, I get the following error message.

Microsoft reported an error while processing this action:
This action is being rate-limited by Microsoft due to excessive requests.

Does anybody knows why and could help me fix it ?

Thanks, and kind regards

Hi Emmanuel,

I am experiencing the same just now. I was using a gmail account for which I found there is a limit of 500 emails to be sent a day, and decided to replace it by a hotmail account which I found ut had a limit of 1.000, and got this message as well after sending just some dozens of emails..

I can see that this post is a bit old. Were you able to overcome the problem?

How? 🙂


Same issue.

I have signed up for a Team account on the basis that I can send 100 emails a day via Outlook. I tested my automation with 10 records with no trouble.

I then flagged 40 contacts to be emailed. Outlook sent 10 emails, then the automation reported the other 30 as “In progress” but this then changed to Failed, with the Microsoft error message quoted by. Emmanuel. So it looks like I’m not going to get my 100 emails a day, unless someone has a fix?


Hm, I think I’d try creating a ‘Email Jobs’ table where each record contained email addresses to be sent emails to, and then have an automation triggered every three minutes to send emails, and so something like:

  1. Run a Script action with a 30 second delay
  2. Run a Script action with a 30 second delay
  3. Run a Script action with a 30 second delay
  4. Run a Script action with a 30 second delay
  5. Run a Script action with a 30 second delay
  6. Run a Script action with a 30 second delay
  7. Create record action to create a new ‘Task’ record
  8. Find Record action limited to 8 results so we don’t trigger the rate limit, looks for records that don’t have a ‘Sent’ checkbox ticked
  9. Repeating group action on the 8 results to send emails and tick the record’s ‘Sent’ checkbox

And the automation triggers on new record creation of a ‘Task’ record


Thanks Adam. I might look at that, but right now I am using Airtable’s built-in email system.

cheers

 

CG