Emailing all customers

[GoTTi]

when i send out emails to ALL my customers, i get a timeout sometimes because there is just too many of them.

 

how can i stop that? is there a way to send emails in bulk amounts instead of all @ one time, causing the timeout?

[Guest]

email queue by boxtel: http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contri...rch,email+queue

 

 

i use it myself and it works wonders on speeding up the newsletter process!

[GoTTi]

just tried this, and its not what i want, i dont think...its not working for me....

is there something that will let me send my users an email if i have 10k users, and it sends the emails in pages, not just 1 page and times out?

[ozEworks]

All servers have domain level email limits. This limits the number of emails that can be sent by a domain per hour. The default is usually 300 emails. Any emails over this limit are discarded.

 

Unless you have your own dedicated server with no email limit set, you will find you have some kind of limit on you and you need to ask your hosting company what it is.

 

So if you have a limit, even if you do not time out you only think you are emailing 10K people. In reality only the first "300" are actually being sent.

 

You need to install http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,2624

 

to allow Bulk email.

[arietis]

just tried this, and its not what i want, i dont think...its not working for me....

is there something that will let me send my users an email if i have 10k users, and it sends the emails in pages, not just 1 page and times out?

 

the smtp protocol has a limit of 100 recipients per email. some servers extend this limit, but there's no guarantee that yours does. since your ten thousand users is well over this limit, i would definitely look at the contributions that allow for bulk emails.

[TexMex]

All servers have domain level email limits. This limits the number of emails that can be sent by a domain per hour. The default is usually 300 emails. Any emails over this limit are discarded.

 

Unless you have your own dedicated server with no email limit set, you will find you have some kind of limit on you and you need to ask your hosting company what it is.

 

So if you have a limit, even if you do not time out you only think you are emailing 10K people. In reality only the first "300" are actually being sent.

 

You need to install http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,2624

 

to allow Bulk email.

 

I'm right with GoTTi on this one.

 

What we are both trying to do is send an email to all our customers,( NOT A NEWSLETTER) which requires subscribing all your customers to the newsleter, bleh..

so when we go to Admin->Tools->Send Email, type a little email, then select "All Customers" to send to. The first few hundred get the email then PHP times out.

 

I own my own server, tweaked with the php.ini file, no luck. I installed this Advanced Bulk Mailer contrib and it works great for people who are subscribed for Newsletters.

 

Someone write me a little SQL query to mass insert a "1" into the "customers_newsletter" row in the customers table and that will do fine.

 

I've looked at the description and the instructions for Email Queue V 1.2 and am not sure if this will do the trick of sending out email batches at timed intervals. but i do find it amazing that this same problem is being asked all over this forum and answered with this Advanced Bulk Mailer Newsletter thing.

 

will Email Queue V 1.2 do the trick? Can someone put this issue to rest with a solid resolution?

[TexMex]

I'm right with GoTTi on this one.

 

What we are both trying to do is send an email to all our customers,( NOT A NEWSLETTER) which requires subscribing all your customers to the newsleter, bleh..

so when we go to Admin->Tools->Send Email, type a little email, then select "All Customers" to send to. The first few hundred get the email then PHP times out.

 

I own my own server, tweaked with the php.ini file, no luck. I installed this Advanced Bulk Mailer contrib and it works great for people who are subscribed for Newsletters.

 

Someone write me a little SQL query to mass insert a "1" into the "customers_newsletter" row in the customers table and that will do fine.

 

I've looked at the description and the instructions for Email Queue V 1.2 and am not sure if this will do the trick of sending out email batches at timed intervals. but i do find it amazing that this same problem is being asked all over this forum and answered with this Advanced Bulk Mailer Newsletter thing.

 

will Email Queue V 1.2 do the trick? Can someone put this issue to rest with a solid resolution?

 

**bump**

[♥geoffreywalton]

Try reading about the update command in the mysql section on w3.schools.com.

 

Should take about 2 minutes to work it out.

 

Enjoy