I have not posted it yet. I will share the documentation giving its functions, and if there is interest I will publish it shortly.
Martin
Is there any kind of delay parameter that can be specified to slow down the processing of a mail merge so that one doesn't exceed most ISP's spam protection limits?
For example, I have a 200-member mailing list, and for short emails, the processing time per message is about 2-3 seconds. I need a 20-30 second delay between sending each message in the merge to avoid bumping into my ISP's limits (50 messages in 5 minutes; 200 messages per hour).
Is there any way to slow things down?
To be honest, I have no idea whether this is going to work, but the following occurred to me. Instead of sending your messages at once, you could place them in the queue and set Pegasus to send queued messages during idle checks, say once every 5 minutes. And now the tricky part: there are one or more smtp definition files (SMTPxxxxx.pnd), which contain the following line:
Max_Msgs : 0
If you set this to a reasonable number in the relevant smtp definition file, I would expect Pegasus to send reasonable batches of queued mail every 5 minutes or whatever interval you have selected. As I said, I don't know whether this is going to work but it might worth testing.
Promising idea, but I haven't been able to get it to work (yet). I'll keep trying.
Every time, all the messages in the queue get sent, even though I have set Max_Msgs to 3. I wonder if that parameter is actually used by Pegasus?
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Every time, all the messages in the queue get sent, even though I have set Max_Msgs to 3. I wonder if that parameter is actually used by Pegasus?
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Good question. That was the part, tricky though I thought it was, I had set my hopes on. Can I still have that pint of Guinness you're holding in your hand there? :-)
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Every time, all the messages in the queue get sent, even though I have set Max_Msgs to 3. I wonder if that parameter is actually used by Pegasus?
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Good question. That was the part, tricky though I thought it was, I had set my hopes on. Can I still have that pint of Guinness you're holding in your hand there? :-)
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Long gone, I'm afraid. But I'll gladly hoist another one for you. :-)
Perhaps one of the Pegasus developers can weigh in on this topic and give a definitive answer to time-staging mail merge emails.
I have a version of MailMerge that introduces a delay between each message sent. It has been around for about a year now. I would like to offer it to Community, but the project got put on hold near its completion to give priority to Pegasus Mail 4.5 checkout.
If you allow me a few days I will check it out and complete the documentation before uploading it.
Martin
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I have a version of MailMerge that introduces a delay between each message sent. It has been around for about a year now. I would like to offer it to Community, but the project got put on hold near its completion to give priority to Pegasus Mail 4.5 checkout.
If you allow me a few days I will check it out and complete the documentation before uploading it.
Martin
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That's great. If I can be any help in testing it out, I'd be glad to.
