Hi Paul, quick question please.

I want to use this purely for when I send out bulk emails, so instead of installing and uninstalling each time, can I simply change from 'yes' to 'no' in the vb options for using the mailqueue system, will that then stop vb from using this mod and it will revert to sending out the emails normally? Or does this mod have to be removed before that will happen? Thanks.

As far as I'm aware that would work. Its a long while since i did anything with the e-mail system.

I have a large forum (about 80,000). I installed the mod and set batch size (in Email options) to 70 with a 6 second delay, and to process every 10 mins in the scheduled tasks. When I attempt to send emails from ACP> Users> "Send emails to users" the process will begin and it shows me emails sending successfully every 6 seconds. (on that page Emails to send at once is set to 500).

Is it possible for me to NOT keep this page open? It would take it like 8 days to run and I'm certain it would timeout within an hour. How do I get this process to work after leaving the emailing page, or how do I get it to go to the queue so it can then be sent out slowly?

The only way you could do this is to set it to 0 while using the "Send emails to users" - it should then zoom through them at 500 a time (but is just adding them to the queue, not sending them). Once done, change the value back to 6. I would add that I think 6 is an excessivly large value to use.

Thanks for the assistance.

With such a huge memberbase as mine, would you suggest setting to 0, and then processing smaller batches every minute (rather than 10), so my server doesn't get bogged down?

And once all were added to the queue and changing the value back to 6, would that apply the 6 second delay to the processing of the queue?


Thanks Paul

That would seem a better choice IMO.

Yes, it should.

Thanks Paul. I'll run it today and let everyone know if that was successful!

Hi Paul I've been using this for a while, but for some reason my daily digest (email sent once a day) doesn't queue up even though mass mailing do.
I have set it to mailqueue on, and the system works fine other then the daily digest emails which timeout or cause high server load.
Any ideas?

Thanks for the great mod.

It would depend on whether vb queues them by default, this wont process them unless the original code queues them in the first place.

I am running latest 3.8.7 and have over 150K members.

Will this work on the current latest 3.8.7