Slow Sending Of Email...

[rdlawless]

Hi. I have the latest version installed (1.87d) and having my emails being sent slowly.

I am hosted with 1and1 on the developer package. Running LM through smtp as well.

Average speed is about .7 (2500 per hour) which I have a list of 25,000 to send to.

Taking about 10-12 hours to send out an email, is there any way to make this go any quicker?

Thanks for any help.

- Robert

[rdlawless]

I have visited other posts about the same basic issues that I am having, only those don't seem to help much.

One is for Mailing Stops (subject)...

DW Wrote:

Are you on the latest version of ListMail (v1.87d) available from the member area?

Have you tried enabling the SMTP log to see what it says when it stalls? If not, I recommend enabling "Always write SMTP log" on the Config page.

You could try setting
Code:
$smtp_timeout = 60;

in config.php as some servers have trouble with a recent timeout variable (default 9s, but I'm considering raising it to 60)

I am on the latest version, and I have Always write SMTP log clicked (where do I find this log at??)

About the $smtp_timeout = 60, do I simply add this to the config.php file? I have opened my config up and do not see anything that resembles this. I did not overwrite my config file when I upgraded to the newest version, but I still opened the new config up and did not see that line of code anywhere there as well...

Mike2 wrote:

As a temporary help (but still needed full time) setup the auto-resume feature.

This way you don't have to babysit it right now while having problems. But, even later it comes in handy for occasional hiccups.

Where do I set this auto-resume up at? Is this also in the code? I looked on the config screen in admin and did not see anything to set this with, so I could not try this either.

I have also tried using the internal php mail section in config as well, same thing happens, it sends out mails at average speed of about .40 - .50.

Also, I have tried to increase and decrease the Reconnect every ### of emails. It is set to 2000 right now, and my mail stops being sent after about 500-700. Once it even got to 800! (lol)

Under my smtp settings, for my Host I am not using localhost, instead using smtp.1and1.com. I beleive that when I installed this using localhost would not work. 1and1 are funny when it comes to settings - not like most other hosts that are out there.

Is there any possible way for this to get sped up, as I have moved a new list here and still trying to send out a notice informing of the move (a welcome message but not the default one for new sign-ups)

Thanks for any help...

- Robert

[DW]

Hi Robert, In my experience 1&1 will not allow you to send that much email.  I also thought they had a 100 message per connection limit but, from what you report, that must not be the case anymore.  I highly recommend contacting them about the possibility of per-connection, hourly or daily limits on outgoing email just to be sure (I also recommend telling them you run a highly professional list)

1&1 is a very, very large distributed shared hosting provider.  I suspect there will be quite a number of users using your server and you may not be able to achieve the speed you want even with everything optimized and if 1&1 doesn't throttle your sending.

Do you think there could be a time limit on your script?  Does the script always time out after 30 seconds, for example?  This may be a limitation of 1&1 hosting.

Auto-resume is setup similar to dailymail with different timing and PHP script filename.  Please visit this help page for more details.

Is there an error message when your mailout stalls?

Regards, DW