[Cyricx]

Well to kinda give an idea of how the mail queue system runs from my experience dabbling in the bugger. Perhaps someone can correct me if I'm wrong.

When you post a reply with this modification, it'll run some queries to determine who all should receive an email. Then it will check to see if you have it set to run in batches. If you do have it set to run in batches, it'll add those emails to the mail queue table.

The next time a user refreshes any page on your site it'll run check how many you want to send per batch, grab those emails from the database, send them and delete those rows.

The next time it is refreshed it'll repeat this process.

I'm not one hundred percent certain on how long it waits between batches to allow another batch to be sent but I believe it's only about 5-10 seconds.

I have sent as many as 100 emails at one time with this mod prior to the vbmail days and experienced no adverse server side effects. Though I run on a VPS server. Others didn't hit problems until they tried to send 1000 emails at once! Hehe. So If you have problems with your mail backing up, try setting your batches higher, to like 10 or 20 and then monitor the system.

The reason I like the new layout is it's much more aesthetically pleasing for the forums and with the "reply box" it kinda gently encourages the users to visit the forum rather then just slink along on emails.

Which in the end.. is what we want... them visiting our forums. Going to the other sections of the site and heck.. in some cases... clicking on our ads