a flood of old emails suddenly re-sent

  • I’m been using SMTP Mailing Queue plugin for about 3 years with great success. Suddenly, at 8:00 PM ET on July 7, hundreds of old emails got re-sent by the plugin, including some that were more than a year old. During the email flood, I looked at List Queue and there they were in the queue being sent. Just as suddenly, the flood stopped after about 15 minutes.

    Any idea what may have caused this?

    I’m running WP 5.2.2 and SMTP Mailing Queue 1.1.1. There was no software update around that time, neither on WordPress nor the system.

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  • Thread Starter boca jo

    (@boca-jo)

    By looking at my site backups, I can see that 70 old .json files that had previously been in wp-content/uploads/smtp-mailing-queue/invalid were for some reason moved to wp-content/uploads/smtp-mailing-queue at exactly midnight GMT on July 8. I have no idea why SMTP Mailing Queue may have done this, nor what steps to take to prevent it in the future.

    Plugin Author Birmania

    (@birmania)

    Hi @boca-jo,

    Thanks for the details about your issue.
    Currently, there is no feature in the plugin to automatically retry invalid mails.

    However, there is two events that could produce a re-send of invalid mails :
    1. If you set a cronjob as suggested by @kimsf here : https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/feature-requests-retry-schedule-requeue-mails-and-processed-mails-log/
    Do you remember having setup this kind of retry procedure in a cron job ?
    2. Or SMTP Mailing Queue plugin updated from a version prior 1.0.6. However you did not notice any software update…

    Yours faithfully,
    Birmania

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