Newsletter Extras Scheduler Notes

21. Jan, 2010 15 Comments

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After Statistics, the Scheduler is one of the most important piece of Newsletter plugin. Scheduler allows you to send a large number of emails by sending small chunks at a specified interval to avoid limits imposed by hosting providers. Scheduler is part of Newsletter Extras package (for members).

First of all, to configure the scheduler, you have to know the limits imposed by your provider. Open a ticket or search between the FAQs to discover them.

HostGator has 500 emails per hour limit, DreamHost 200. These are very low limits, especially if your blog uses other notification plugins such as Comment Notifier or you have configured WordPress to send an email for each comment that is left for a post.

Even worse is if your account is used to run more than one blog.

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15 Responses to “Newsletter Extras Scheduler Notes”

  1. TallDAH Reply 25. Jan, 2010 at 8:25 pm

    Is it possible to add a scheduled time to send out the newsletter. For example, I compose the newsletter on Monday for a Tuesday 11:00am delivery.

    Thanks

  2. daniellench Reply 24. Feb, 2010 at 8:15 pm

    After Statistics, the Scheduler is one of the most important piece of Newsletter plugin. Scheduler allows you to send a large number of emails by sending small chunks at a specified interval to avoid limits imposed by hosting providers. Scheduler is part of Newsletter Extras package (for members).

    [thank you for your corrections... I'll study them!!!]

    • daniellench Reply 24. Feb, 2010 at 11:23 pm

      This is a great plugin! I’ve been fighting with mailpress for 8 months to get the f’ing batch send to work.

      I’ve gone through this page and edited some wording as you have requested, I hope it helps.

      I just need to figure out how to trigger activity on my site now every hour so the wp_cron cycles.

      Thanks Stefano!

  3. centoequatro Reply 25. Feb, 2010 at 9:13 pm

    I’m simulating a delivery of 1480 emails, in batches of 20 each 10 minutes. I’m using DreamHost. But it looks like the scheduler isn’t working at all. It sent the first batch, but unless I click “restart batch” it wont send the next batch.

    Another strange thing is that the Batch Info informs a strange time for the next batch (see image attached). My sistem time is correct, but the time in the Batch info is not. And besides that the counter is negative [next run on 25/02/2010 06:22 (-46 minutes left)]

    I have the “Maintenance Mode” plugin active in manteinance mode (the site isn’t published yet).

    I need to send a real one tomorrow. I what are my options?

    • ArtbyKat Reply 06. May, 2010 at 4:30 am

      I’m having the same problem. Do you need to hit restart until all batches have been processed, and if you do will the batches still take 10 minutes in between or do I need to wait 10 minutes until the next batch starts?

      • Stefano Reply 08. May, 2010 at 12:21 am

        It restarts automatically if you used the scheduler. The time left informs you on number of minutes remaining. You can force a restart manually too.

    • zarinha Reply 15. May, 2010 at 3:31 pm

      I have the same issue, counter negative, using batches of 99 each 2 minutes. The site isn’t public, I noticed without traffic the wordpress cron didn’t work (I’m visiting to avoid this). Are theses situations related?

      • zarinha Reply 15. May, 2010 at 3:39 pm

        Other situation:

        previus batch Status:
        “Not completed but no next run found (errors?)
        Batch max emails limit reached (it is ok)”

        After this, next batch work fine and counter of emails sent is incremented.

        Next batch status:
        “Not completed, next run on 15/05/2010 01:35 (1 minutes left)
        Batch max emails limit reached (it is ok)”

  4. matthewhaigh Reply 07. May, 2010 at 3:36 am

    Same error as above – the clock appears wrong and not linked with system time. Is there a good reason for this?

    Batch info
    Status Not completed, next run on 7/05/2010 09:40 (484 minutes left)
    Batch max emails limit reached (it is ok)
    Emails sent/total 100/930 (last id: 100)

  5. horia Reply 02. Jun, 2010 at 11:17 am

    Hi Stefano
    I’m still having trouble understanding how the scheduler works. Sometimes I get the same error as people above, but by refreshing the page seems to continue (triggering the wp cron?).
    However the most annoying problem that i keep getting is completly stopping the process. This is the error:

    Status Not completed but no next run found (errors?)
    Batch max emails limit reached (it is ok)
    Emails sent/total 300/676 (last id: 1899)
    Sending type Real/Scheduled

    Any suggestions? Thanks

  6. donstevens Reply 28. Jun, 2010 at 11:55 pm

    Hi Stefano,

    Not sure if Scheduler is working.

    It says:

    Not completed, next run on 28/06/2010 10:00 (6 minutes left)
    Batch max emails limit reached (it is ok)

    I’ve had to restart it two times, after 10 minutes nothing, then I wait and restart and it says 5 or 6 minutes left, and then after f or 6 minutes, nothing again.

    Is this working?

    Please help.

  7. donstevens Reply 28. Jun, 2010 at 11:56 pm

    The scheduler should restart automatically, shouldn’t it?

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