[TalkVirginia]

Originally Posted by shyguy82

Thanks a lot for this mod, I just installed it. So from what I understand, it will send a number of emails specified in settings every N number (times) specified in CRON JOBS settings (default 1 hour 30 min).

You're correct to a point. It's not 1 hour and 30 mins, it actually means that the cron job will run every day at 1:30 in the morning.

Based on a tutorial I checked out just to confirm my understanding. If you look at this chart, it will show that the cron job is laid out like this:

minute hour [day of month] [Month] [Day of Week]

Field Locations and Meaning:

1.Minute (0-59)
2.Hour (0-23)
3.Day of month (1-31)
4.Month (1-12, Jan, Feb, ...)
5.Day of week (0-6) 0 = Sunday, 1 = Monday, ... or Sun, Mon, etc)
6.Command to execute

I have a large board with 115k users with about 20k inactive users, I've set the number of emails to send to 10 and an interval to 30 min, is this a good setting? Because if I leave it at 5 emails per session and 1 hr and 30 min, it will take forever to send them.

I would strongly recommend resetting it back to process at midnight or in the early morning hours. You may want to check with your host provider and see if there is a limit to now many emails you can send at one time. I imagine it would also depend on how you have vBulletin itself configured. Do you use the mailqueue or do you send email out immediately? I haven't worked with large amounts like that before so I don't know what your hosting situation you have or what it will support. To be on the safe side till more can be determined I'd try small batches of maybe 100 - 200 then increase it by 100 or so.




Members get an inactivity grace period... which a site admin would set to 1 or more days. This means that a user would have to be inactive for that number of days before they would receive their first reminder email. In the example above, users would have to be inactive for 30 days. They would receive an email reminder on their 31st day.



Depending on what you have set in this field. If for instance you have 7, this would send out a reminder every 7 days until that user logs back in and/or posts a message.

Does this answer your questions and/or concerns? Please let me know if you have any other questions.