Throttling newsletter emails?

[lomaalta]

I have 500+ members that I would like to email using the newsletter feature - does SMF "throttle" emails?  I would hate to get blacklisted for spamming!  I would prefer to send just a couple per minute.

Thanks...

[Kindred]

http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/SMF2.0:Mail

[d3vcho]

Hello!

You can enable the Mail Queue and edit the number of mails sent per minute. Have a look at this: Mail
As long as your host allows you, you can send multiple mails per minute.

Regards

[lomaalta]

Thanks guys...  I'm (VERY happily) running SMF 2.1 Beta 2...

I sent out the emails via the newsletter tool - but I have a feeling they were not all successful - in fact, my gf didn't receive hers, and there were almost no views to the link I sent out to 500+ old members - are there any known bugs?   And I know this is off topic (sorry) ...  but I inadvertently had my server time zone set to Africa, so, I went in, changed it to UTC, (tried Los Angeles as well)  but my post times haven't changed. Is there a way to update the post times?

Thanks again...

[d3vcho]

Hello!

No, there aren't any known errors with Newsletter. Are other members receiving the email? Maybe your host set a limit for sending emails per hour.

Anyway, you can change your Timezone in Profile > Look and Layout. Also, you should be able to modify overall time offset in Admin > Feature and Options > General

One last thing, we do not recommend using Beta versions for production sites. You may encounter some errors.

Regards

[lomaalta]

Thanks - this can't really be considered "a production site" it's simply a little place for me to post a few rants lol.

I did change the time zone settings under admin server settings, then looked using a different browser, not logged in at all, and the time of the post remained Africa, regardless of how I set it.

http://treasure.neuz.com/index.php/topic,2.0.html

Hmm, I guess consider me a beta tester, and just giving ya'll a heads up.   

[d3vcho]

There's a difference between Server Timezone and user timezone. In Admin > Feature and Options > General, change offset time to 2 hours and save the changes. Then check if the error still happening.

Regards