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I have a client who has a large mailing list for a newsletter that he sends out periodically and the list is rather sizable (7000+), anyhow the site is built with Joomla and a newsletter component has been installed for him to send out the articles.
Anyhow the issue arises when he proceeds to send out the newsletter to that many subscribers all at once and what ends up happening is that I end up with an enormously large mail queue that takes a considerable amount of time to process. This is in turn has resulted in other clients calling me and complaining that they are having trouble with their emails (usually accessing them or sending them). When this has happened I have usually had to clear the queue of messages attributable to that one user and then email starts working again.
Anyhow I have advised the client to break that one large list down into considerably smaller sized lists (500 addresses) and work the lists one at a time, in other words sending the newsletter to one list at a time to minimize congestion. Additionally I advised the client to do their email blasts during off peak hours
Does this work? Trying to keep the mail server working the right way and at the same time meet the clients needs as well (additionally the client has opt-in and opt-out options for the newsletter). I had assisted them about two weeks ago with setting up majordomo to handle which appeared to work however they could not get any statistics as to the results of the emails being sent out.
I am trying to keep things from going nutty on my server again since re-worked everything on the server last week by doing a
in custombuild
Slowly but surely I am trying to get a grip on all of this and I try to remember a certain mantra that friend told me a couple years back;
Anyhow the issue arises when he proceeds to send out the newsletter to that many subscribers all at once and what ends up happening is that I end up with an enormously large mail queue that takes a considerable amount of time to process. This is in turn has resulted in other clients calling me and complaining that they are having trouble with their emails (usually accessing them or sending them). When this has happened I have usually had to clear the queue of messages attributable to that one user and then email starts working again.
Anyhow I have advised the client to break that one large list down into considerably smaller sized lists (500 addresses) and work the lists one at a time, in other words sending the newsletter to one list at a time to minimize congestion. Additionally I advised the client to do their email blasts during off peak hours
Does this work? Trying to keep the mail server working the right way and at the same time meet the clients needs as well (additionally the client has opt-in and opt-out options for the newsletter). I had assisted them about two weeks ago with setting up majordomo to handle which appeared to work however they could not get any statistics as to the results of the emails being sent out.
I am trying to keep things from going nutty on my server again since re-worked everything on the server last week by doing a
Code:
./build all d
Slowly but surely I am trying to get a grip on all of this and I try to remember a certain mantra that friend told me a couple years back;
Code:
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