ya I set
Number of Emails to Send Per Batch to 80. so that was right

From what I have read, you will need someone to spend time checking your actually installation, there is nothing obviously wrong in your posts.

Im afraid I simply do not have the time to do that atm.

paul it has taken days to send these emails....and there is still 1000 remaining. am I missing something?

Maybe you dont have enough traffic to trigger the cron system every 10 minutes.

Other than that, no idea really, many things could affect it.

Working in 3.8.8.

[s]When making the file revisions, I could not find the string: exec_mail_queue(); (within includes/functions.php)[/s]

Nevermind, as when I FTP'd my functions.php file the connection stalled and I did not get the entire file.(i.e. just 164kb out of 177kb) Once I discovered that and re-downloaded the file, I found the string I needed to edit then!