Understanding cron jobs

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When using MAILQUEUE_BATCH_SIZE is 100 and MAILQUEUE_BATCH_PERIOD is one hour and MAILQUEUE_AUTOTHROTTLE is 1. . .

If the administrator sets the cron job to kick off at 7:00 a.m. with a list of 3,000 emails, is the administrator’s work done in setting it all up?

Are multiple cron jobs needed or will the system every hour on the hour send out another 100 emails?

This is a fundamental question in the use of phplist but I can’t find an answer to this. . .

I ask because there are several postings about adding additional cron jobs to a single mailing.

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@pancakehollow If you look at the Event Log page then you should be able to see how many emails phplist is sending in each run of the cron job. I guess it is much less than 100 and possibly sometimes 0.

Because of the way that phplist works out how many emails to send in the next batch, the batch period needs to be reduced to a small value. See my explanation at Struggling to get cron job timing corect - #2 by duncanc