Giant newsletter sending help.

codnerd · March 12, 2011, 11:03:53 PM

Ok.
I have a VPS with no sending limit.
I am planning to send a newsletter to just over 100,000 members.

I did a test newsletter on my forum by sending it to just me, and it sends at 0.06% at a time. That is for one person...

Whats wrong?
How do I do this, so it will be perfect the first time?

Bigguy · March 12, 2011, 11:16:19 PM

You can disable the mail queue and have them all sent at once or you can play with the settings and have a certain ammount sent at a time. Have you seen the section in Maintenance in the admin panel for mail and then the settings.

codnerd · March 12, 2011, 11:19:20 PM

Yea, even with editing, it still sends at 0.06% each page load.
That's for just one person. I can't even image what it would be for 100,000.

Bigguy · March 13, 2011, 12:35:25 AM

What are your host limits for sending mail.

codnerd · March 13, 2011, 06:14:06 AM

None. I just switched to a VPS, and they have verified that there is none, where my old shared had a limit of 500 per hour.

Bigguy · March 13, 2011, 01:24:04 PM

You should be ok to send them out. It might take a bit to send that many but if you have no limit and the admin panel settings are set up right you should be fine.

codnerd · March 13, 2011, 04:16:59 PM

Ok, but why would it only update at 0.06% per page load for just sending a newsletter to one person?

Bigguy · March 13, 2011, 04:17:56 PM

That I am not sure about, sorry. Maybe it's default. Someone else may have the answer to that.

codnerd · March 13, 2011, 05:47:23 PM

I just tried it with another site of mine that has about 30 members on the same hosting, and it sent to one person in 3 seconds, where this one, just sending to one person would take hours.

Any ideas?

Bigguy · March 13, 2011, 06:26:51 PM

What happens when you click on:

[Send Mail Queue Now]

It should send it all at once.

codnerd · March 14, 2011, 01:02:43 AM

When I click on that, there is nothing in queue.
Ok, I created a new install (same version), and SQL'ed the members into the new DB.
When I try to send a news letter, it goes 0.99% every time, and once it finishes, it does not even send the newsletter.
I tried three times.

Any ideas?

Bigguy · March 14, 2011, 01:49:38 AM

It sounds like a server problem really. I have no problems sending all mail at once or letting the queue handle it.

codnerd · March 14, 2011, 07:06:06 PM

It is working on one of my forums.
The other, not.

The exact only difference between them atm, is the # of members.
I imported the members table data to a clean smf install.

So it cannot be server issues, as I am trying to send it to one person.

Bigguy · March 14, 2011, 07:45:05 PM

Are you using SMTP or php default.

codnerd · March 14, 2011, 08:38:52 PM

PHP default.

vbgamer45 · March 14, 2011, 08:46:00 PM

Quote from: codnerd on March 14, 2011, 07:06:06 PM
It is working on one of my forums.
The other, not.

The exact only difference between them atm, is the # of members.
I imported the members table data to a clean smf install.

So it cannot be server issues, as I am trying to send it to one person.

Anything in your error log? I have done around that many in SMF but I did it batches of like 7k on SMF 1.1.x
You are close if not already to point of needing a dedicated email program or email service to send it out if you do it often.

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