Originally Posted by Tize. (Post 2011717)

I am understand you TalkVirginia.
Thank you very much for your reply and for your help.

Regards from canary Islands in Spain.
:)

Originally Posted by TalkVirginia (Post 2011429)

You're correct to a point. It's not 1 hour and 30 mins, it actually means that the cron job will run every day at 1:30 in the morning.

Based on a tutorial I checked out just to confirm my understanding. If you look at this chart, it will show that the cron job is laid out like this:

minute hour [day of month] [Month] [Day of Week]

Field Locations and Meaning:

1.Minute (0-59)
2.Hour (0-23)
3.Day of month (1-31)
4.Month (1-12, Jan, Feb, ...)
5.Day of week (0-6) 0 = Sunday, 1 = Monday, ... or Sun, Mon, etc)
6.Command to execute

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2011/05/6.png



I would strongly recommend resetting it back to process at midnight or in the early morning hours. You may want to check with your host provider and see if there is a limit to now many emails you can send at one time. I imagine it would also depend on how you have vBulletin itself configured. Do you use the mailqueue or do you send email out immediately? I haven't worked with large amounts like that before so I don't know what your hosting situation you have or what it will support. To be on the safe side till more can be determined I'd try small batches of maybe 100 - 200 then increase it by 100 or so.


http://www.talkvirginia.net/images/r...raceperiod.png

Members get an inactivity grace period... which a site admin would set to 1 or more days. This means that a user would have to be inactive for that number of days before they would receive their first reminder email. In the example above, users would have to be inactive for 30 days. They would receive an email reminder on their 31st day.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2011/05/6.png

Depending on what you have set in this field. If for instance you have 7, this would send out a reminder every 7 days until that user logs back in and/or posts a message.

Does this answer your questions and/or concerns? Please let me know if you have any other questions.

Originally Posted by shyguy82 (Post 2012002)

WOW!!!! What a detailed response, thank you SO much, now this makes sense. I've set the number of emails to be 150 for now, I have a dedicated server. I already spoke to my provider and they said, as long as your users are opt-in, this shouldn't be an issue. So I'll try this setting for a few days, see how it goes and maybe gradually increase the number of emails.

Again, thank you SO much for your response and this MOD. Rating this mod as +++++++ al the way.

By the way, do you write any mods for hire by any chance? I have a requirement and unfortunately Im not proficient in PHP, my background is .NET.

Originally Posted by Tize. (Post 2012105)

Nominate!!!!

;)