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Hi,


If I wanted to create a campaign with a big list of subscribers, but wanted to limit only sending the same email to 450 per hour, how do I do this and to make sure the program will only send once to each person on that list?

Thanks,

In config/config.php file, set the sending rate as follows:

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 define the amount of emails you want to send per period. If 0, batch processing
# is disabled and messages are sent out as fast as possible
define("MAILQUEUE_BATCH_SIZE",450);

# define the length of one batch processing period, in seconds (3600 is an hour)
define("MAILQUEUE_BATCH_PERIOD",3600);


(In version 2 this is around lines 335)

phpList will only send one email per campaign to each subscriber, that's how it works.

Thank you Dragonrider for helping me! That is excellent information and I found the link that is describing this process. Now that I know what to call it. http://docs.phplist.com/PhpListConfigSendRate.html Though, it says the information is based on version up to 2.10.5. So, I am not sure if the info still applies to the newest release?

It sounds so easy! I have heard nothing but awesome feedback about PHPlist in other forums. So, this is my first whirl with it.


So,I just want to confirm with you if I am understanding the process correctly,

If I set the batch size to 450, and my list is say 1350 different email subscribers starting from addresses alphabetized A-Z, PHPlist will automatically stop sending at 450 (A-H), 900 (I-P), 1350 (Q-Z)?

I hope it is as easy as it sounds!

Well, you didn't specify which version you are running and this is the version 2 sub-forum so I assumed you are running version 2.

In version 3, the lines are around 340-350 and you'd need to be using config-extended.php renaming the file to config.php to replace the smaller starter original config.php file.

Honestly, not sure if phpList sending a sorted order of emails or not, and you'll need to keep a browser window open on the processing until it's completed. but it will send up to 450 messages per hour so long as your host allows that number.