I tried my second newsletter with painful results - it seem to have NOT at all got delivered - atleast to most emails. 1. My database is 9000+ strong. 2. When i did a test - everything seemed fine (i did test on two email - gmail and yahoo - to each was fine. 3. Cron throttle was set to 50 with the poormanscron set to trigger every 8 minutes (making it 350-400 emails per hour (less than 500 limit that my host puts) i "sent" the newsletter to the whole list at 17:45pm (approx) the watchdog shows an entry at 18:35 showing at cron run - "Executed simplenews_cron via poormanscron, took 4 sec." the watchdog shows a "newsletter message " notice at 17:54 Newsletter Programs for Parents could not be sent to gbs@xxxxxx.com (this looks like a bounced email so far so good i get 10 "bounced message like above at 17:54 and a whooping 48 bounced messages at 18:02 (which would have been the next cron throttle after 17:54) 38 bounced messages at 18:10 only 4 bounced messages at 18:18 3 bounced messages at 18:26 6 bounced messages at 18:35 24 bounced messages at 18:43 4 bounced messages at 18:51 and surprising no further error messages When I checked the newsletter status in night – around 21.00 hrs – it showed “sent” Which obviously means that it has not sent further emails than 18:51 – because to send 9000+ - t should have taken more than 24 hours!!! The watchdog shows cron running every 8 minutes – but shows the following for newsletter “27 Aug 2008 - 19:00 Executed simplenews_cron via poormanscron, took 0 sec. which would mean that there were no further emails sent after 19:00 hrs My Questions: 1. Why did it stop sending emails after some 8 cron throttles? 2. 2. How will I know how many? 3. Why did it show the “sent” status when in fact it did not send the same? How do I know - for sure – in future - that delivery has been done – to all emails – because a mere sent is not telling the right story! 4. Which other errors should I look at? Php? I get the following error which I was getting in my first newsletter sent also – but at that time emails were delivered QUOTE mail() [ function.mail function.mail ]: Could not execute mail delivery program '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i' in /home/genie/public_html/modules/mimemail/mimemail.module on line 279. UNQUOTE Any guidance would be most welcome geniekids wrote:
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I tried my first email newsletter with simplenews.
1. How does simple news handle bounced emails. I am mailing to 7000+ emails. Surely many emails will get bounced. But i did not get any email in the sender email box. Is there a way to check that and get the list of bouncing emails ids. (to clean up the list)
2. I have set Cron throttle to 100 and set Initial send time: 2seconds (default value)). Cron using poormanscron is set to run every 10 minutes. Ae these appropriate settings?
3. Also while composing i had not put any background colour and formatted the html email in TINYMCE. During delivery - only to yahoo email ids - it is adding a ugly background colour which is making it almost impossible to read the email. This is not happening in gmail or hotmail! What could be causing this?
4. Also fundamentally is simple news the "right choice" for emailing something to a large number like 7000+ emails. Should i be looking at some other module or any other mailing package - any recommendations - is mailman a better choice. Though i love the integration of simple news into the drupal website and ease of subscribing offered to the visitors.
thanks in advance
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