Can't send newsletter to more than 150 subscribers

Hello,

I have about 750 subscribers to my newsletter.

I was suspecting an issue in sending newsletter for month and I decided to follow the process carefully.

The result is that I only sent my newsletter to the first 150 subscribers. And I got no error message.

My provider allows to send 5000 message per day.

Could you help me to trap this error assuming I can't annoy my customers sending them test newsletters!

Do you know a workaround (for example to send them 100 by 100)

Thanks in advance for your help.

Christophe

As far as I know, Zencart itself has no restrictions on the number of emails sent.

My guess would be that, even though your host allows 5000 emails a day, they can't be sent all at once. Most hosts restrict the number of emails sent per unit of time.

I believe it's possible to create a cron job to limit the number of messages sent at a time, interspersing the delivery over a period of time...

... only, don't ask me how to write such a cron!

Your Hoster would be the best person to discuss this probllem with. They may have restrictions as mentioned but even more important, they know exactly what is going on with the Server and can tell you the exact problem.

Also, a cron job would not work in this case as too many variables need to be processed & tracked. Sending eMails in batches is something that needs to built-in to the Mailing list script itself. At this time Zen Cart does not offer batch eMailing and a 3rd party script would be needed.

A first explanation is that a set_limit_time of 600 sec is set in the newsletter.php module. It seems that these 10 minutes are not enough to process more than 150 mails! Why? Perhaps because I set in admin the parameter "Check email address to a DNS server"??

Thanks for your answers.