ChrisVanMeer Posted January 1, 2018 Posted January 1, 2018 I would like for IPS to hold the same options as other forums do and that is to supply a batch size on how many email notifications should be sent at once. This size is configurable for bulk mails, but I would like to see it as a general setting. The hosting provider that houses our forum (and we have a long contract with them) has a slow phpMailer / SMTP response. This resulted in a very slow response when replying to topics (verified by Support). So for now I have disabled the email notifications altogether. On the old forum (phpBB) I had a way to send emails in burst (i.e. 20 at once). Maybe - if supported enough by others - this can make it to a new release?
MADMAN32395 Posted January 1, 2018 Posted January 1, 2018 If you're worried about speed. Why not setup a free account at Sparkpost? 50k daily, 100k monthly. What I've seen, works great. Wouldn't have to worry about hosts phpmail problems.
Mopar1973Man Posted January 1, 2018 Posted January 1, 2018 The problem I run into is Microsoft mail providers. If you send too many emails out in one batch and hit too many hotmail.com, msn.com etc. You get blacklisted as a spammer. The software needs a limit to how many it sends in a batch. I've quit with emailing newsletters because it just a fricking pain in the tail to fight email providers everything they decide to blacklist my domain.
Management Matt Posted January 2, 2018 Management Posted January 2, 2018 As of 4.2.7, there is a new constant 'NOTIFICATIONS_PER_BATCH' which controls this.
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