Our host requires emails to be spaced 6 seconds between each one and only 200 per hour, is this something that could be set up with this if at all possible?

200 per hour would be easy to set-up (with the default 10 minutes between batches, just set each batch to 32 max). I don't know of any system that would put a six second delay between e-mails.

You could also set the cron to run once a minute, processing 3 e-mails each time.

Right now we have only found phplist which so far I cant get working at all. They say you can adjust the seconds between messages.

"The MAILQUEUE_THROTTLE setting inserts a pause (in seconds) between each message, i.e. it will space messages apart by a number of seconds."

Example:
# batch processing disabled:
define("MAILQUEUE_BATCH_SIZE",0);

# Batch_period is not effective when batch processing is disabled:
define("MAILQUEUE_BATCH_PERIOD",3600);

# Pause between messages (in seconds) to send no more than 360 messages per hour:
define('MAILQUEUE_THROTTLE',10);

Sorry, I cannot help you with phplist, only this modification.

If you choose the once per minute option then I really don't see what the problem is, there is no good reason to send the three e-mails 6 seconds apart , that's just nonsense.

In fact, there isn't really much reason to do it at all, if your host really insists on such stupid rules then tbh, you should start looking for another.

Sorry wasn't expecting help with phplist, only answering your comment on systems that would give 6 second delays.

Hostgator is the one who has these guidelines for shared servers.

I will set it for one a minute and give it a try, this way they cant say we are breaking the rules and we defiantly wont go over their 200 per hour policy.

I have the same problem, it works great but no email sends..... I have follow every single instructions but now the email dont work at all.

Anyhelp please

This does not alter how your sever sends e-mails, if you have followed the instructions then the e-mails are passed by vb to your server just the same as always (just in batches every 10 minutes, not straight away). Are you sure you did this (below)

thanks Paul for the hack :)

so according to the instructions above, if i want to send 450 emails per hour. once installed i turn on the use mailqueue system in email options?

and then for 'Number of Emails to Send Per Batch' i put in 75 ? As it sends emails every 10 minutes is that right? That will be 450 emails per hour??

Nothing else needs to be mofified right???

75 * 6 = 450, correct.