Yesterday, I used the Thunderbird Mail Merge extension to send email to about 500 people. Unfortunately, this affected the Google Apps limit, and all further emails were blocked.
Even worse - the limit seems to be still in place today (the next day), which is very destructive, and I could not do any work.
The solution for me is to simply use an alternative SMTP server to send email, which you can easily configure in Thunderbird by adding it to the Outgoing Server (SMTP) section and then selecting it in the email account you are trying to use.
I have a cPanel web server with SMTP setup for this account that I can use, but any SMTP server should temporarily complete the task. You can find it by looking for a free SMTP server. Alternatively, you can configure it on the local computer as described here: local smtp server for sending mail
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