unless someone can point out a serious flaw in my code, members will never be sent the email 5 times in a row unless you have set the frequency to something low.

it's impossible.

Here's what you do. Those that request to be taken off the list, move their accounts from registered members to the awaiting email verification group. This way the emails will not be sent to them, their accounts remain active and they will need to verify their account before they can ever post or receive any communications from your site.

You haven't "set retry to 2". What you have done is set it so that inactive members are emailed every 2 days. Set that value to a minimum of 30 days.

It sure would be nice if it still had an E-Mail Quantity option to only send say 1,000 E-mails a day!

Plan on seeing your server be as slow as a slug for hours. I just ran it for the first time. It's been over two hours and the server is still as slow as a slug, on php pages. It's still sending E-mails out via sendmail. 10,261 members are geting E-mailed. load average is as high as around 10.98, 10.77, 10.04

Uh, there actually IS a setting to control this:

Set this to a low number. Mine is set to 3.

I actually removed this, as the cron only runs once a day now, and adds all the mails to the mail queue, and if it is slow due to SENDING the emails, then this is down to vbulletin.

If this is becoming a problem, I suggest you revert to 1.09 untill i can come up with a better solution for all.

Have you considered adding an feature in the options, where you can push a button to send the emails right away. Instead of waiting for the cron to do it?

i could, but you can just go into the cron and run it manually. yes, im lazy.

It worked great. Before the server was even done sending the E-mails all out, visitors were already coming back!! :eek:

Hopefully the server being slow will be just once a month, since it's set to them geting E-mailed once every 30 days, so the 10,261 people won't get them for another month!!! It took about four hours for them all to be sent out! And this is on a dedicated server!! :eek:

If I changed to the older version, would the people that just got E-mailed get the E-Mail again, next time it does it, or would it know they were just E-Mailed?