I made the settings related to processing the queue with cron in my config file, but after cron runs, even though I stop it from crontab, the mails still continue to be sent when I stop the campaign, it just stops.
my phplist version : 3.6.8
my php version : 7.4.30 nginx fpm
My config.php
<?php
/*
* ==============================================================================================================
*
*
* The minimum requirements to get phpList working are in this file.
* If you are interested in tweaking more options, check out the config_extended.php file
* or visit http://resources.phplist.com/system/config
*
* ** NOTE: To use options from config_extended.php, you need to copy them to this file **
*
==============================================================================================================
*/
// what is your Mysql database server hostname
$database_host = 'localhost';
// what is the name of the database we are using
$database_name = 'mydatabase';
// who do we log in as?
$database_user = 'myuser';
// and what password do we use
$database_password = 'mypassword';
// if TEST is set to 1 (not 0) it will not actually send ANY messages, but display what it would have sent
// this is here, to make sure you edited the config file and mails are not sent "accidentally"
// on unmanaged systems
define('TEST', 0);
/*
==============================================================================================================
*
* Settings for handling bounces
*
* This section is OPTIONAL, and not necessary to send out mailings, but it is highly recommended to correctly
* set up bounce processing. Without processing of bounces your system will end up sending large amounts of
* unnecessary messages, which overloads your own server, the receiving servers and internet traffic as a whole
*
==============================================================================================================
*/
// Message envelope.
// This is the address that most bounces will be delivered to
// Your should make this an address that no PERSON reads
// but a mailbox that phpList can empty every so often, to process the bounces
// $message_envelope = 'listbounces@yourdomain';
// Handling bounces. Check README.bounces for more info
// This can be 'pop' or 'mbox'
$bounce_protocol = 'mbox';
// set this to 0, if you set up a cron to download bounces regularly by using the
// commandline option. If this is 0, users cannot run the page from the web
// frontend. Read README.commandline to find out how to set it up on the
// commandline
define('MANUALLY_PROCESS_BOUNCES', 0);
// when the protocol is pop, specify these three
$bounce_mailbox_host = 'imap.gmail.com';
$bounce_mailbox_user = 'myemail@gmail.com';
$bounce_mailbox_password = 'mypassword';
// the "port" is the remote port of the connection to retrieve the emails
// the default should be fine but if it doesn't work, you can try the second
// one. To do that, add a # before the first line and take off the one before the
// second line
$bounce_mailbox_port = '993';
//$bounce_mailbox_port = "110/pop3";
// it's getting more common to have secure connections, in which case you probably want to use
//$bounce_mailbox_port = "995/pop3/ssl/novalidate-cert";
// when the protocol is mbox specify this one
// it needs to be a local file in mbox format, accessible to your webserver user
$bounce_mailbox = '/var/spool/mail/listbounces';
// set this to 0 if you want to keep your messages in the mailbox. this is potentially
// a problem, because bounces will be counted multiple times, so only do this if you are
// testing things.
$bounce_mailbox_purge = 1;
// set this to 0 if you want to keep unprocessed messages in the mailbox. Unprocessed
// messages are messages that could not be matched with a user in the system
// messages are still downloaded into phpList, so it is safe to delete them from
// the mailbox and view them in phpList
$bounce_mailbox_purge_unprocessed = 1;
// how many bounces in a row need to have occurred for a user to be marked unconfirmed
$bounce_unsubscribe_threshold = 5;
// choose the hash method for password
// check the extended config for more info
// in most cases, it is fine to leave this as it is
define('HASH_ALGO', 'sha256');
// ------------------------------------------------------------------
// if you change the path to the phpList system, make the change here as well
// path should be relative to the root directory of your webserver (document root)
// If you install phpList in the document root then the value should be an empty string, not '/'.
// Warning: Do not change this after installation. You can only change this before you
// install and initialise phpList.
$pageroot = '';
// use Register to "register" to phpList.com. Once you set TEST to 0, the system will then
// request the "Powered By" image from www.phplist.com, instead of locally. This will give me
// a little bit of an indication of how much it is used, which will encourage me to continue
// developing phpList. If you do not like this, set Register to 0.
define('REGISTER', 0);
// If you set up your system to send the message automatically (from commandline),
// you can set this value to 0, so "Process Queue" will disappear from the site
// this will also stop users from loading the page on the web frontend, so you will
// have to make sure that you run the queue from the commandline
// check README.commandline how to do this
define('MANUALLY_PROCESS_QUEUE', 0); // Default 1
// to avoid overloading the server that sends your email, you can add a little delay
// between messages that will spread the load of sending
// you will need to find a good value for your own server
// value is in seconds, and you can use fractions, eg "0.5" is half a second
// (or you can play with the autothrottle below)
define('MAILQUEUE_THROTTLE', 240); // Default 0
// set this to 1 to allow adding attachments to the mails
// caution, message may become very large. it is generally more
// acceptable to send a URL for download to users
// using attachments requires PHP 4.1.0 and up
define('ALLOW_ATTACHMENTS', 1);
// the attachment repository is the place where the files are stored (if you use
// ALLOW_ATTACHMENTS)
// this needs to be writable to your webserver user
// it also needs to be a full path, not a relative one
// for secutiry reasons it is best if this directory is not public (ie below
// your website document root)
$attachment_repository = '/tmp';
/*
=========================================================================
Message sending options
* phpList now only uses phpMailer for sending, but below you can
* tweak a few options on how that is done
=========================================================================
*/
// If you are using PHPMailer 5 then you can use a different version to the phplist distribution by specifying
// the location of the PHPMailer autoload file
// if not set, the PHPMailer version included in the distribution will be used
// eg for Debian based systems, it may be something like the example below
// when you do this, you may need to run some tests, to see if the phpMailer version you have works ok
//define ('PHPMAILER_PATH', '/usr/share/php/libphp-phpmailer/PHPMailerAutoload.php');
//
// If you are using PHPMailer 6 then you can use a different version by setting the location of the PHPMailer
// src directory, e.g.
//define ('PHPMAILER_PATH', '/var/www/PHPMailer-master/src');
// To use a SMTP server please give your server hostname here, leave it blank to use the standard
// PHP mail() command.
define('PHPMAILERHOST', 'smtp.gmail.com');
// in the above you can specify multiple SMTP servers like this:
// 'server1:port1;server2:port2;server3:port3' eg
//define('PHPMAILERHOST','smtp1.mydomain.com:25;smtp2.mydomain.com:2500;smtp3.phplist.com:5123');
// if you want to use smtp authentication when sending the email uncomment the following
// two lines and set the username and password to be the correct ones
$phpmailer_smtpuser = 'myemail@gmail.com';
$phpmailer_smtppassword = 'mypassword';
//# you can set this to send out via a different SMTP port
define('PHPMAILERPORT',587);
//# test vs blast
// you can send test messages via a different SMTP host than the actual campaign queue
// if not set, these default to the above PHPMAILERHOST and PHPMAILERPORT
// define('PHPMAILERTESTHOST','testsmtp.mydomain.com');
// define('PHPMAILERBLASTHOST','livesmtp.mydomain.com');
// define('PHPMAILERBLASTPORT',25);
// to use SSL/TLS when sending set this value
// it can either be "ssl" or "tls" or false to not use SSL/TLS at all
define("PHPMAILER_SECURE",'tls');
//# SMTP debugging
// Enable debugging output by phpmailer when sending test emails
// See https://phpmailer.github.io/PHPMailer/classes/PHPMailer-PHPMailer-PHPMailer.html#property_SMTPDebug
// define('PHPMAILER_SMTP_DEBUG', 0);
//# Smtp Timeout
//# If you use SMTP for sending, you can set the timeout of the SMTP connection
//# defaults to 5 seconds
// define('SMTP_TIMEOUT',5);
// Pop-Before-Smtp
// If you use Pop before Smtp, set to true
// And complete smtp settings (PHPMAILERHOST, phpmailer_smtpuser', phpmailer_smtppassword)
define('POP_BEFORE_SMTP', false);
define('POPBEFORESMTP_DEBUG', false);