OK, thanks Paul... so I have it set as:

Number of Emails to Send Per Batch: 50 and the delay at 1 second. Is this the only setting I need? I do not want to exceed 500/hour as I am allowed 600 and the extra 100 is for other functions and email users on the server. I am I correct that there are no settings in the mod/hack, only those in the ACP?

Gotta say I am nervous as a long tail cat in a room of rocking chairs.

The cron runs 6 times an hour (every 10 minutes), so 50 x 6 = 300 an hour, well under your 500/Hr - you are fine.

Ahh, the light bulb comes on, I did not realize the cron ran 6x per hour. So whatever I put in the field is x6 to give me the hourly send rate. So a quick math lesson for other:

Setting the "Number of Emails to Send Per Batch" to:

50 = 300/hr
60 = 360/hr
70 = 420/hr
80 = 480/hr
90 = 540/hr

Perfect! I got it now, Thanks again Paul.

I just wanted to stop by to warn you guys:

If you have say over 200,000 emails queued and you decide to upgrade vbulletin, make sure to do the file edits on the new files immediately before uploading it!

I made the noob mistake of uploading a fresh functions.php onto the server. Within seconds, all the emails were sent out, bringing my server to a halt with a load of 1000+.

I didn't know what the heck was going on until I saw exim crash.

Hmm... yeah, editing first might be a wise action :p

Hey Paul,

Ive been using this addon for quite a while now and it has been a lifesaver... but i have a question.

Maybe it has nothing to do with your addon, and its more of a vBulletin thing, but you may know the answer anyways :)


I dont have much traffic on my forums (most the traffic is on the main site), so this becomes a problem when, say, in the middle of the night, i have a newsletter that needs to go out to 8,000 people that doesnt get finished until the next couple weeks.

What i tried to do to remedy this was make my local machine at home just do a simple wget of vBulletin's cron.php file every 5 minutes.

I figured this would be the best solution... but for some reason, when i look at my mailqueue from the adminpanel, it shows that the number of unsent mails never changed when i just hit the cron.php file... but it works fine if i leave a browser on the forums and make it reaload every 60 seconds.

Would you happen to have any idea how i can manually execute the cron and make my emails send out when my forums are empty?


Thanks :)


EDIT: I found out my problem, in case anybody got here by googling. it was in fact my wget script... if you are trying to run your cron's manually, simply make something hit cron.php on your forums.

Sorry, I dont.

All my activation links are queued. My Users are waiting up to 10 minutes for their activation e-mails.

How can i solve this problem?

As it says, activation e-mails are not queued by vb.

did you test it on your forum? Why my vb queued activation links?
how can i solve this problem?