a request idea - when mass emailing - auto continue to next page

[mentalrz]

With me, 80 thousand members and every 500 emails i have to click next does take its toll and get boring.. can you add a feature for say once emailed .. wait 30 seconds, continue to next page and carry on emailing?


That be perfect :rolleyes:

[runuo.com]

I second this.

[FamilyCorner]

With me, 80 thousand members and every 500 emails i have to click next does take its toll and get boring.. can you add a feature for say once emailed .. wait 30 seconds, continue to next page and carry on emailing?


Wow, 85,000 members, impressive!

I just upgraded from one of the version 2.somethings, up to 3.0.7 and went in to do a mailing. I select 2500 users and it usually ends up around 2-3 pages. Normally I minimize it and do other things, then later, when I remember what I was doing (:eek: ) I go back in and click on the "nex tpage" button.

HOWEVER, now that there is the security feature of timing out the administrator in the user panel (I'm not complaining) it asked me to log back in. Therefore, it got halfway through my mailing and would not pick up where it left off. DRAG. That meant that about half my members got the message and there was no way to finish it without emailing everyone again.

So, my suggestion would be to be able to SELECT the user number you want to email. For example, you can email all (by the way, I love the fact that you can select the user groups with checkboxes now, very nice) users within a group, OR if something like my scenario above happens, you can simply go in and say "email users 2,500 - 5,000" so you don't have to send out a duplicate email to those who already received it.

I hope my rambling made sense!

[Forum-Style]

I so got to agree there also :)

[jb605]

I am facing the same problem. I have to do 100 a time, because 500 a time will timeout. So I will need to click "Next Page" every 5 minutes, for a whole day!

Why there is no auto continue to next page just as the other functions do? Without this feature, mass email is really useless for large forum.

[Grover]

Completely agreed!

[mentalrz]

bumping so it can be considered

[Wayne Luke]

The auto-continue was actually removed from this function because it causes the same issues as increasing the number of mailings from say 100 to 500 on servers, even with a delay it would cause these problems.

[1QuickSI]

Then is there a way to program a timer mechanism as well as the amount of emails to process at a give time? There has to be a better way then with manula intervention.

With over 125k members this will be huge once I make the move to VB.

[Scott MacVicar]

I've got plans to remedy this with using a mail queue like system to send mass emails.

[edenx]

Wow, 85,000 members, impressive!

I just upgraded from one of the version 2.somethings, up to 3.0.7 and went in to do a mailing. I select 2500 users and it usually ends up around 2-3 pages. Normally I minimize it and do other things, then later, when I remember what I was doing (:eek: ) I go back in and click on the "nex tpage" button.

HOWEVER, now that there is the security feature of timing out the administrator in the user panel (I'm not complaining) it asked me to log back in. Therefore, it got halfway through my mailing and would not pick up where it left off. DRAG. That meant that about half my members got the message and there was no way to finish it without emailing everyone again.

So, my suggestion would be to be able to SELECT the user number you want to email. For example, you can email all (by the way, I love the fact that you can select the user groups with checkboxes now, very nice) users within a group, OR if something like my scenario above happens, you can simply go in and say "email users 2,500 - 5,000" so you don't have to send out a duplicate email to those who already received it.

I hope my rambling made sense!

This "interval" thing makes sense

[andrew67]

This is a " must have " feature in my opinion.

I also have a largish forum ( 40,000 members ) and mailouts can only be described as a nightmare that you have to dedicate an entire day to do. I basically have to set it at 150 at a time and sit there hitting next all day.

Even if there was an option box to " auto continue " or something , it would certainly solve this problem. There is a hack at VB.org in regard to this , but its a problem for so many people there should be an option to auto continue.

[msd]

I'm sorry for "bumping" this old thread.. but is there any news about this mail queue feature in Mass Emails?
(Btw, if it has already been implemented, could you please let me know?... I couldn't find it)
Many thanks!


I've got plans to remedy this with using a mail queue like system to send mass emails.

[msd]

Okay, I found out about the queue system (Email Options >>
Use Mailqueue System + Number of Emails to Send Per Batch)
I have a question:
The "Number of Emails to Send Per Batch" was initially set to 10. Would you suggest to increase it when mass emailing? By doing this, will it reduce the load in the server?
Thanks again.

[FamilyCorner]

This is a " must have " feature in my opinion.

I also have a largish forum ( 40,000 members ) and mailouts can only be described as a nightmare that you have to dedicate an entire day to do. I basically have to set it at 150 at a time and sit there hitting next all day.

Even if there was an option box to " auto continue " or something , it would certainly solve this problem. There is a hack at VB.org in regard to this , but its a problem for so many people there should be an option to auto continue.

I know that with the number of users that you have this option is not really something that you want to consider, but it worked as a temporary fix for me, I have roughly 7000 members.

First I went in and created some usergroups called Registered2 and OldMembers, OldMembers2, OldMembers3, etc.

I went into Prune/Move Users and moved users into the other groups based on their activity level. I have a small group of roughly 300 members called Senior Members so I can be absolutely positive they get their newsletter.

I moved all users that have 3 post or less (the lurkers essentially) into the OldMembers groups. I also sorted old members that have been registered for years without any posts in here.

Then I sorted posters into the Registered and Registered2 groups so that there were no more than 1100 per group.

Now when I do a mailing I can set a mailing to go to 1100 users and select each group individually. This way if I walk away and forget, it doesn't matter if it logs me out as I have a checklist going of what usergroups I have already mailied to.

This also allows me to choose which ones I want to do first (i.e. Senior Members, Mods, regular Registered and active users) in case I don't have all day to do it. I can get th enewsletter out to those people first and worry about the old members and lurkers when I have time.

I know it's kind of a crappy work around but it's working for me.

[Paul M]

I've got plans to remedy this with using a mail queue like system to send mass emails.
I sure hope so. We send a newsletter out 3/4 times a year, and even to a few thousand members it's very tedious sitting there for hours pressing next (we can only do it in batches of about 100 or it starts to cripple the server).

[TundraSoul]

So there's no way to continue the emailing process if you left off somewhere? I need to be able to start at a certain userid. What a drag. There's no way I want to start over, it takes way to long.

[FamilyCorner]

So there's no way to continue the emailing process if you left off somewhere? I need to be able to start at a certain userid. What a drag. There's no way I want to start over, it takes way to long.

no, that's why I created different user groups so I could email one group at a time. :( I hope there's a work around soon.

[Inocybe]

Many of us are on a shared server with limited number of emails sent per minute. In my case, I am alowed to run 20 per minute (total).

Would be nice to have a timer feature.

[TundraSoul]

I found a way around this if you have to re-start your mass mailing. When vB mass emails, it starts from the oldest user record first, and moves through all the users. So if you know what user ID it stopped at, you can lookup that user in the database to see who it is. Then with that information, you can lookup to see what the users join date was. Finally insert the join date in the new mass email page as a start point and your mass email will continue from that point.


Therefore, it got halfway through my mailing and would not pick up where it left off. DRAG. That meant that about half my members got the message and there was no way to finish it without emailing everyone again.

[Jafo]

I wrote up an extension for this on the org site:

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=104459

[mentalrz]

Looks good jafo.

[Thunderfall]

With me, 80 thousand members and every 500 emails i have to click next does take its toll and get boring.. can you add a feature for say once emailed .. wait 30 seconds, continue to next page and carry on emailing? That be perfect :rolleyes:
I have the same problem. Please add the auto-continue ability so we don't need to sit for hours clicking buttons every once in a while. It's really a nightmare for large forums. My forum has 80,000 members too.

[zlos]

250.000 members, 300.000 mails per day and setting over 100 mail per batch (batch is executed each minute) kills batching. You guys need definitely to have a look over that damn mailing as now it looks really like a pain in the neck.