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SMF newsletter/PHP Mail Problems

Started by xPureEvilx, March 08, 2012, 03:11:21 PM

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xPureEvilx

Ok so I tried to send out a mass newsletter and about 1/2 of it failed lol. It seemed to be all Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo that rejected it.

Iam running SMF 2.0.1

Error's were like this:

session cf0fb741544b63c21cb803f40e4f3914
error: General

http://androidarea51.com/index.php?action=admin;area=news;sa=mailingsend

Unable to send mail to the email address '******@yahoo.com'


I had roughly 400 of them, We have about 700 members.

I do have full access to my php.ini and openssl is enabled.

Some php.ini setting I think might be relevant:

SMTP = stp://mail.*******.com
smtp_port = 2525

extension=php_openssl.dll
allow_url_fopen = On
default_socket_timeout = 60



If anyone knows of a setting Iam missing or what the issue is please help.


Thank You,
PureEvil

MrPhil

The attempts to send to these three systems failed immediately? They didn't get bounced back, but were blocked by your host? You will need to ask your hosting service if they are blocking large volume mailings to these three. They (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo) have a reputation for blocking servers that they suspect are spamming, so your host may be acting out of self-preservation. Ask them if they will let emails through if you "throttle down" the sending to, say, 5 emails per minute? SMF has settings to do this, or you can use PHPlist or other throttlable mailers.

admirable

Your not allowed to use yahoo mail to send Newsletters to the members....
You should try Google Apps to create email and then put it in your Forum Webmaster Email....
Then you will be able to send mails/newsletters.
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xPureEvilx

Update:

Turns out some of the emails did make it to gmail, so seems to send the first 300 or so fine then the rest fail. Is there any way in SMF to maybe split the sending up? like maybe send 200 then wait 5 mins and send 200 more and so on....


Also Iam not using yahoo to send the mail, Iam using php mail to do it.

Illori

admin -> main settings enable the mail queue and set a rate of messages to go out per minute that should help

DVD_GR

i think only with some cron job the smf 2 mail queue will work right ?

DVD_GR


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