Hi, Paul!
Installed and marked.

Next question. I installed the mod on vB 3.8.3 and sent 24 test emails with the batch value set to 10. Waited an hour, but nothing happened.
There are approximately 18 users viewing my forum at the moment. If I send more e-mails, they queue up. In the scheduled tasks it says that the next start is at 3:50, although I sent the e-mails at 4:24. Strange, huh?
If I run the mod manually - it works.

What could be the problem? Need a little tip here.

Kirill

In the scheduled tasks I clicked edit, didn't change anything, clicked save and the next start time changed to 06:00. This was at 05:52. But now it's already 06:05 and nothing has happened - neither the queue of emails decreased, nor the next start time changed - it's still at 06:00.

Sounds like your cron system is not functioning correctly, either its broke, or you dont have enough real visitors to keep it going. When you say 18 users, are they spiders ? - as they will not trigger the cron system.

Skipping over some users?
I have a dummy user account (ID: 260)

I have often noticed that when I send out e-mails (2500 members), my "Dummy Account" does not receive them. It is NOT in the junk e-mail filter. I have even tried using a different e-mail address.

My Dummy User account is set up as a regular forum member. My admin account (ID: 1) gets the e-mails every time. My dummy account will actually get the mass e-mail maybe 1 time in 8 e-mails. What is happening to the other 7?

I am concerned that maybe other "real members" are not getting the e-mails as well. There is no way for me to know who didn't receive it.

Has anyone else ever noticed or reported this?

This neither knows or cares who e-mails are addressed to, it cannot skip users.

Hi. Guess you are right. I got it working yesterday. And you know how?!!
This is just ridiculous!
Quote about CRON jobs from here: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...etin-cron-jobs
So the Cron jobs have something to do with the 1x1 Spacer.gif, which is loaded to your forum via the header template. And the funny thing is that I replaced this gif with a Christmas hat for the holidays. When I removed the Christmas hat your hack started working.
Very weird. Any comments on this issue?

BTW: I Suggest you add info about the spacer.gif into your manual, so people, who use custom styles check that it's in place. It's kinda impossible to think of it yourself if don't know beforehand.

I do not work for IB/Jelsoft/vBulletin, I can neither comment on the cron system or have any input to the vbulletin manual.

Actually, I can't agree here, Paul.
I understand, that theoretically, your mod doesn't care what type of user it is mailing, but...
I have three dummy accounts. Before your mod I tested all of them by sending single e-mails. All ok. But I mailed an informer yesterday to all the users and only one of my dummy accounts recieved it (and my admin account). The other two - didn't.
I have a 300/hour qouta, so your parameter was set to 40 - that's 240/hour. So this is ok.
Plus, I checked the server mailbox - no info on undelivered mail to the dummies.

So, what could be the problem here? Can you check, plz.

Well you can disagree if you want, but it wont change the facts. :) This has no bearing on who mail is sent to. Perhaps you are not clear on how this works - what it does is run the vBulletin mail processing code every 10 minutes instead of every page load. That code is standard (untouched) vbulletin code.

There is nothing I can check, as I said, this mod does not do the mail processing, vbulletin does that, all this does is change how often it runs.

Great Mod , works well. Thanks Paul :)