Problematic batch sending options

Hi Lethalmiko. Have you asked to your provider about sending limits? There could be limits about emails per seconds/minutes/hours, so excess emails are not sent.

I run a VPS and have root access. I haven’t put any limits on the server.

Ok, there is a known issue about too much emails per batch.
The maximum number should be not more bigger than 30, as suggested in setting page. (The sending script is not perfect and it can give strange behaviours on higher numbers. It’s my fault, in future I’d like to rewrite it).

At the moment you should set max 30 emails per batch and maybe reduce the interval between batches from 5 to e.g. 3 adding this line in wp-config.php (as you probably know) and reactivate the plugin:

define( "ALO_EM_INTERVAL_MIN", 3 );

I hope it helps.

any improvements until now?
We have also the problem that sending takes much more time than expected.
120 in 2 hours but in settings its 25 per each 5 minutes.

Also I don’t really get the part where it says it only starts new batches by visiting the blog/site site, for example one visit every 30 minutes makes one batch every 30 minutes.
A tool for sending newsletter is supposed to send this stuff by it’s own

eventualo, I have put in the changes and will wait to see how it works out. In theory, it should now take about 11 hours to send my list which is an impovement over the 24.

shadow772, you need to use a cron job for your purposes like I do. The instructions are on the batch sending options.

If you have few visitors you should set an external cron. In your dashboard, in the plugin cron setting page, you can read more about it.

Faq: https://www.eventualo.net/blog/wp-alo-easymail-newsletter-faq/#faq-8

I am unfortunately having no joy. The last run of 7,000 emails took 20 hours to complete. I hope this issue can be sorted out and is the only major flaw I have found in an otherwise great plugin.