How do you optimize batch settings for use with phplist.com to get the maximum rate of sending emails?
The question should be how many mails will your hosting service allow you to send per hour. With that number, you limit mail sending on the phpList accordingly. If you need more details, post a question here and I will try to get answers for you.
@Dougster Thanks for your reply. I have activated remote queue processing on phplist.com. I thought–perhaps in my ignorance–that that took my hosting service out of the loop. Is that not the case?
@Dougster Am still interested in your response to my post re: how phplist.com remote processing and my web hosting email work together. I originally thought that queues would be processed entirely on phplist.com’s server. But I then read something about its only role being to keep the processing going on my web host so I did not have to keep my browser open after sending a campaign. Would appreciate some clarification as to what exactly is going on. Thanks.
Anyone else is welcome to respond to my note to Dougster.
This is correct.
You should preferably use a cron job on your server to process the queue. The remote processing is needed only when that is not possible. Methods of Sending (Br... | phpList manual
Processing the queue through the admin interface in the browser is suitable only for small numbers of subscribers because you need to remain on that browser page until sending has completed.
@ducanc Thanks, Duncan. That answers my questions.
Thanks, Duncan … I was on a project and unable to get back on here.
@duncanc Per your suggestion, I have now set up a cron job to process my queue. I had previously signed up for the service at phplist.com to process the queue remotely. Now that I’ve set up a cron job on my server, do I need to do anything so that phplist.com is not also processing the queue?
@jimb On the Process Queue page there might be an option to disable remote processing. If not, then try adding this line to the config.php file
define('SHOW_PQCHOICE', true);
@duncanc I changed the config setting. Now the process queue page does offer me a choice of either 1. using the service from phplist.com or 2. running the queue manually in my browser. See screenshot below:
Hope that image upload worked, but it’s just a screenshot showing the two choices.
It’s not clear to me–and I have not been able to find in the manual–which of those choices is appropriate for processing the queue using a cron job on my shared hosting server. Which should I choose?
@duncanc Thanks for your time. I finally had my “ah ha!” moment and realized that what’s going on with phpList has nothing to do with my cron job; the job is going to run regardless of phpList’s settings. So I turned off manually processing and processing choice settings in config.php and did some testing. Sure enough, the cron job processed the queue on time with those settings turned off. Since I no longer get the “process queue” or “send queue” commands, I know I can just queue a campaign up and let the cron job do it’s work. So I’m good. Thanks again for answering my questions.