Lets do the math for the delays.
1 hour = 60s * 60s (1 min) = 3600s
Divide that by 200 and we get 18, so 1 email every 18 seconds.
To be safe I would delay to one every 20 seconds, so the delay settings would be 20000 ms per email and 0 mins per X emails.
Hi Dean! A blast from the past, sorta :-) .. and sorry this is so long...
To cut to the quick... if I ever thought NM was the center of nothingness, I had yet to meet Arizona. Came to teach high level creative software to young geniuses [genii?) in a charter school... it got closed for fraud... I've done two years on Elance and it's a killer, and now back at the helm with the publishing house. Took 2 years 'off' from LMP and let it run on autopilot because my mom passed away Christmas 2004... lots of family issues.
Okay! But this area in central AZ has NO services. DSL arrived via Qwest about 8 mos. ago, and I hopped off the crummy wireless broadband, onto DSL. I've spent the past 6 mos. or so, back at the Autoresponder Hell of years ago, as my host had ANCIENT scripts for mySQL, and much of LMP simply did not work AT ALL. Tried Aweber but you need to do 400 clicks for every action ;-) ... tried Fantastico's PHPlist, just recently as it supposedly has "Throttle" but after two HARD weeks of this, I give up. The Thang just don't work unless you are high level programmer. Some folks claim it works but it does not.
MY ISSUE, Dean, is that I am still on a shared server (Hostgator... MIXED bag, believe me!) and I MUST MUST MUST have LMP throttled, as they have a 200 per hour limit!!!
SO! I need to use this function for "Internal Sendmail PHP mail() (delayed to prevent timeouts)" for now.
I've now set this, per your discussion, to 20000 ms between mails, as you suggested. I also am throwing in a minute after every 50 mails, to be on the safe side.
In the 1.5 or so years that I let things go 'autopilot' ... many of my readers disappeared. But I get a ton of signups from Yahoo'ers and Hotmail'ers and AOL'ers... and these were mostly the ones that went away. I am now dealing with about 500 subscribers down from 1500, but it's growing again.
With PHPlist over the past few days, when I found out for SURE it was not working well, I fed in the old larger list, just to make sure. And weeding out the bounces as they hit from the Mailer-Daemons.
While at the old host with old mySQL scripts, I also had bounce.cgi NOT working at all; the main part of LMP came through like a champ for signups and AR stuff. So now I've got it set using an email account to be processed by DailyMail. The test SAYS it is set up fine and working. So that is coming up today as I send out test mails. Yes, giving up on PHPlist the crummy thing ;-)
OK! Main question... is this function like THROTTLE? The reason I am edgy is the PHPlist SAYS their throttle thingee works, but it does NOT. Hostgator is slamming about 50% of mails sent, as the configuration is obviously not right, even though I've tried several setups from the Forums. This thang is way more difficult to setup than most scripts I've ever installed.
Whew, good to "talk" to you again. Hope all is well up there!
Leanne
stuck in AZ and wishing for NM or even home stomping grounds of Colorado My Home (they oughtta make a song, huh!) (They DID! Harve Presnell in 60s Unsinkable Molly Brown) :shock:
