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My server limits emails sent to 500/hour. If i set email limits to 8 seconds between emails and the burst to 500 per 60 minutes should that work with the server limits. Trying to send 800 emails.

Thread began 6/02/2021 7:00 am by JBWebWorks | Last modified 6/14/2021 2:50 pm by Ray Borduin | 558 views | 12 replies |

JBWebWorks

My server limits emails sent to 500/hour. If i set email limits to 8 seconds between emails and the burst to 500 per 60 minutes should that work with the server limits. Trying to send 800 emails.

<?php
if (isset($_POST["submit1"]) || isset($_POST["submit1_x"])) { //WA Universal Email
$Email = new WA_Email("sendemail");
$Email->Redirect = "?success=true";
$Email->From = "House of Champions Stakeholders <hocstakeholders@hocstakeholders.org>";
$Email->BurstSize = "500";
$Email->BurstTime = "60";
$Email->WaitTime = "8";
$Email->addToFromRS("Recordset1","user_email");
$Email->addAttachmentFromForm("attach");
$Email->BodyFile = "webassist/email/templates/corporate-fullwidth/html.php";
if (function_exists("rel2abs") && $Email->Redirect) $Email->Redirect = $Email->Redirect?rel2abs($Email->Redirect,dirname(__FILE__)):"";
for ($emailGroup=0; $emailGroup<sizeof($Email->To); $emailGroup++) {
$Email->Subject = "".((isset($_POST["subject1"]))?$_POST["subject1"]:"") ."";
$Email->send($emailGroup);
}
$Email->close();
}
?>
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Ray BorduinWebAssist

Yes, that should work. It would send emails with 8 seconds in between each and send no more than 500 every 60 minutes.

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JBWebWorks

Ray,
different problem...I ran the send mail program with the email limits as above and had less than 500 to send and got error 524 timeout.
see screen shot attached. Not sure where to go to correct this error?

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

This is because your hosting company is using Cloudflare... What hosting company are you using? Unfortunately cloudflare won't let scripts run for more than 100 seconds. I've been googling that error, but can't seem to find a work around. The only solution might be to use a cron to restart the send periodically. I could help with that in a premier support ticket.

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JBWebWorks

I am using bluehost. They increased my email limit to 750 but if cloudflare timesout at 100 seconds, i still can't send all the emails in one session. I will talk to support again about the 100 seconds timeout and see if they can change anything. If not i will get back to you on a possible cron job. Would the cron job restart at the place it left off?

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

It would have to keep track and pick up where it left off. We would probably have to log the emails that need to be sent in a database table and loop through and delete them.

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JBWebWorks

I just got off the phone with support at bluehost and they first tried to sell me on an upgraded account to fix the problem with cloudflare. I said i was not changing my account and could she fix my timeout problem with cloudflare. She said she could and then she said she changed my permissions with cloudflare and that it should fix my timeout problem. I have not tested it yet but will later today and let you know if it indeed did fix my timeout problem with cloudflare.

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

Good luck. There may be a way to turn off Cloudflare as well. If not, then I think I can figure out how to call the page through a cron or do a direct SSH call of the php page and fix it that way.

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JBWebWorks

I noticed in the send mail set up there are two choices, send all emails at once and send 1 to each recipient. If i chose send all emails at once, would that complete before the 100 second timeout by cloudflare?

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

It might, but all recipients would show in the TO line together. You may run into other limits at that point.

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