[Adam_NZ]

That’s right (thanks) … but how do I re-generate the correct info?

[Adam_NZ]

Yes – I remember I could edit it – and was also thinking of placing some dummy text there, but it’d be nice if that field could be made to autogenerate the correct content somehow.

At the moment, when you look at that page, it gives the impression that the empty field will be auto-generated when the send is resumed … but that doesn’t happen.

[Adam_NZ]

I can confirm that the TXT section is cleared – it’s happened twice.

Unfortunately, Mailersend throws an error if it’s blank.

[Adam_NZ]

Just when I thought I’d nailed it … I got another error from Mailersend … I’d reach my daily limit of 1,000 request/sends! Their website doesn’t tell you when you initially set up the “Hobby” (free) plan what the per minute or per day limits are … you have to find out the hard way!

Even their plans comparison page makes no mention of the per minute restriction (though it does tell you about the daily limit).

So … I’m stuck with 1,000 sent out of a total of 1623.

However – we have another problem. On previous attempts to restart the send, the TEXT part of the HTML field was blank (though it’s set to “Autogenerate”) … so the send failed – and I could find no easy way of repopulating that info. On the current/suspended send, I see the same blank field, so daren’t attempt to continue the send.

It appears that, once a send has errored, there’s no way to restart it. Is that a bug?

How do I send the remainder of the list?

Can the newsletter send be split into 1,000 size chunks somehow? I suppose I could set the per hour limit to 40 (ie. 960 per day) but that seems ridiculously slow.

[Adam_NZ]

Stefano … you’re a genius! I set it to 90 and risked a complete re-send.

Only 23% of the way through as I speak, but a couple of my test Gmail accounts have already got the newsletter (and no errors so far) – so .. looking good! 🙂

I’ll confirm the result tomorrow (bedtime here!) … and I hope this has helped other potential SMTP/Mailersend users.

[Adam_NZ]

Wow! I didn’t think it would be as complicated as it is (!).

I’ll go for the “define” method. A question, though … to achieve more than one email per second (but still stay under the <10/sec limit) would define(‘NEWSLETTER_SEND_DELAY’, 90); be the correct value? Would that be the equivalent of 9 emails/sec?

Having set that in wp-config.php what do I put in in the two plugin fields?

Thanks for all your help – much appreciated!

[Adam_NZ]

Thanks for the info 🙂 … the error (and consequent block) was because the number of emails sent *per minute* [just] went over the maximum of 10 p/min. If I set 600/hr, does that automatically throttle sends to < 10/min? Also – what should I be setting the “per second” value to?

I can’t keep sending multiple tests, as subscribers that *do* get the mails are going to get annoyed – so I need to get this 100% correct before the next send (!!).

[Adam_NZ]

Thanks for those links – there’s some useful pointers there.

I agree – sending a NEW newsletter to unconfirmed subscribers would be the way to go. However … let’s say that, after sending that one out, I still have 200-300 unconfirmed users in the list. Is there no way of bulk deleting them from the admin panel? I realise it could be done by exporting only the confirmed subscribers then re-importing them into a new list, but that seems a rather long way around. Or am I missing something here (it wouldn’t be the first time, LOL!)?

Just being able to multiple-select the users then adding a “Delete” in the “actions” drop-down would be so much easier, IMHO.

This isn’t a major thing BTW – it’s still a *great* plugin!

[Adam_NZ]

Please ignore my slightly caustic post above!!! I found I was using an HTML theme as a starting point. I created some new variations using other themes (that offered blog insertion) and found all those features there: well done, Newsletter people!

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