Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Cron Based E-Mail Sending

This modification is no longer available or supported.

In default vBulletin if you send a large number of e-mails, vbulletin either puts them in it's queue and then attempts to send them as each user visits a page, or just simply tries to send them straight away (This is the case when you use the Administrators email users inteface).

As a result of this your server can become seriously overloaded very quickly - so sending several thousand e-mails (like a newsletter) can become very difficult (hours spent clicking 'next' in the ACP) - as a result of these problems, this very simple modification was born.

This modification does two things ;

1. E-mails from the ACP inteface are sent to the mail queue, not straight to the mail system.

2. The processing of the mail queue is set-up as a vb cron item.

Obviously for this to work, you must turn on e-mail queuing in the ACP options - set 'Use Mailqueue System' to 'Yes', and 'Number of Emails to Send Per Batch' to a realistic value (based on the cron setting, as below).

There are two realisitc options for the cron job, you can either set it to run every minute, and set the items to be processed to something small (like 10), or you can do what this modification does by default and set it to run every 10 minutes, and set the items to be processed to something larger (like 100).

Remember, 10 per minute = 600 per hour, 100 per 10 minutes is also 600 per hour. The numbers really depend on how quick you want large queues processed, and how much your mail server can handle in one go.

Once working, when using the ACP mail users inteface, remember you can set it to process 9999 at once (not 500 or whatever) as the mails will now go into the queue, not be sent directly.

Note: This modification will affect any queued e-mails such as subscription e-mails. It will not affect registration e-mails as they bypass queuing anyway.

This modification includes the code by Antivirus that displays the current size of the mail queue (v3.7.002 onwards).

Version 3.7.003 has the option to add a small delay before each e-mail is sent (between 1 and 9 seconds). Use this option carefully.



History:

v3.7.001 : First Release for vB 3.7
v3.7.002 : Added mail queue size display code.
v3.7.003 : Added option for a delay between the sending of each e-mail.

[Mr-Mo3ath]

im installed him agine and he give me same proplem

[Chimpie]

I've used this before with no problems. Today, it sent emails to all 1,000+ members in short bursts, within just a few minutes instead of over a period of hours. No settings were changed.

Thoughts?

Edit: The only change was the upgrade to 3.7.3 PL1

[Paul M]

Did you redo the file edits - I would guess not.

[Chimpie]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Did you redo the file edits - I would guess not.

I changed one, but not the other. oops

[Mr-Mo3ath]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Did you redo the file edits - I would guess not.

i changed the 2 files and upload the php file and install the prodect
any think else i have to do
last plaese learn us what wh have to do when install the meesage and hoe we are confirge the mail cron good

thanks agine sair

[Paul M]

I can barely understand you, but from what I can tell, you have done everything except set the vb options. Read the first post.

[BigDog56]

Installed, seems to be working good!

[Erosantica]

Hi Guys,

I have install this plugin.. However it seems to be generating the email to sent to users 3 times already.
How can I prevent the email to sent it out again..

[Erosantica]

Is there any way to check what is in the mail queue?

[Paul M]

Do you mean the vb mail queue, in which case, just view the table. If you mean your mail server then probably, but I can t tell you how as its system dependant.