Email Throttling

[Website Rob]

Would definitely be a 'touch of class' to have such an option/module for eMail Batching.

If someone has 3,000 or more Customers and tries to send all eMails at one time, it could bring most Servers to their knees and possibly crash quite a few.

[sparrish]

That's the problem that I've run into. Many hosts have emails per hour limits, and aside from that, I've had the newsletter time out on several occasions, and starting over from the beginning to send the list isn't good. I usually end up using PHPlist for the newsletters, but I hate to have to use a separate application when everything is right there in Zen Cart.

I guess now would be a good time to see if anyone would be interested in beta testing? It's going to be GPL with no further restrictions, so no concerns over licensing.

[jstushnoff]

I would be very interested in trying out whatever you come up with sparrish. I'm also sure my clients would make a (small financial) donation if the product turns out to work for them.

[Graffi]

just a nudge that I am also interested in this additional bit of functionality.

As mentioned, my host allows only 200 emails/hour - and I get locked out of Admin if that gets exceeded.

Throttling would be perfect - say, send 150 nwsletters/hour until they're gone -

i certainly would be willing to help test any betas -

[sparrish]

Good to hear that there is some interest! I had backburner-ed the project for a couple months as I had some sites that needed to launch right away, but perhaps this weekend I could get that set up. Some of my clients would be very interested in it as well, so I guess now is as good of a time as any to get it going. Would any of you be interested in giving it a test run with a mailing list if I get it ready by, say, sometime next week? If so, please feel free to PM me so that I can get you some code.

[sparrish]

Okay, a quick status update. This is about 65% finished. The admin module is built, and newsletters are being sent to queue. Just have to work out a few bugs in the actual sending process and set up a few configs and it will be ready to go. More info as it is available...

[DogTags]

This will be nice to have. Thanks

[Website Rob]

Okay, a quick status update. This is about 65% finished. The admin module is built, and newsletters are being sent to queue. Just have to work out a few bugs in the actual sending process and set up a few configs and it will be ready to go. More info as it is available...

I realize this is an old thread but the concept / module would go over in a big way with everyone using Zen Cart.

Just wanted to see if anything ever came about.