Queue & Send Limits

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Emanate enforces daily send limits per channel to protect your sending reputation and comply with platform restrictions. These limits are the reason your sequences do not all fire at once when you add a large batch of contacts. Emanate also runs regular DMARC checks on your domain to monitor deliverability health and ensure outbound volumes stay below thresholds that could harm your domain reputation.

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How the Queue Works

Emanate uses a two-layer queue system:

1. Sequence Queue — when you start a sequence, it enters this queue. There are no daily or weekly limits on how many sequences you can queue. This is a holding area.
2. Task Queue — each step (email, LinkedIn request, etc.) has its own queue with daily and hourly send limits. Sequences move from the Sequence Queue to the Task Queue based on available capacity.

This means if you add 100 contacts to a sequence with a 3-step email template, and your daily email limit is 50, Emanate will spread the sends across multiple days. The first day might process 20–30 first-step emails, and subsequent days will continue working through the queue while also sending follow-up steps for earlier contacts.

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Default Send Limits

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Recommended Starting Volume

Start with 20–30 new sequences per day per user. At this volume with a 3-step email sequence, you will generate roughly 60–90 emails per day at steady state — well within safe limits for a warmed inbox.

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Why Your Sequence Might Send Slowly

If you add 100+ contacts to a sequence and notice only 20–30 went out the first day, that is the queue doing its job. Emanate deliberately throttles sends to protect your domain reputation and stay within LinkedIn’s rate limits. This is expected behavior — your contacts will be reached over the course of several days.

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Can I Force-Start a Sequence?

If you need a specific sequence to send immediately (ahead of others in the queue), open the sequence modal for that contact and manually click Send on the first task. This prioritizes that individual send. You cannot reorder the queue — sequences process based on account scoring priority. To prioritize a specific contact, force-start it manually as described above.

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Rolling Hourly Limits

In addition to daily caps, Emanate uses rolling hourly limits to spread sends throughout the day rather than blasting them all at once. This is better for deliverability. If you see a “daily limit reached” message but your count seems low, the hourly window may just need to reset — wait an hour and the queue will resume processing.

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Holidays & Weekend Sending

By default, Emanate does not send sequences on U.S. federal holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc.). Sends scheduled for a holiday are automatically queued for the next business day. Weekend sending behavior can be configured. By default, sequences may send on weekends, but if you would like to restrict outreach to business days only, coordinate with your CSM to adjust your scheduling settings.

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Holiday Queue Stacking

If outreach is paused over a holiday (e.g., Thanksgiving week), queued emails will stack up and send in a burst when the holiday ends. This can temporarily spike your daily volume.

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Emergency Pause

If you need to halt all outreach immediately (for a holiday, content revision, or message issue), coordinate with your CSM to set your daily send limits to zero. This freezes the queue without permanently stopping any sequences. When you are ready to resume, your CSM restores the limits and the queue picks up where it left off.

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