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First of all, I wanna thank you matt for helping me throughout the day. Much appreciated Smile

I am able to send out mail through the gmail SMTP server for everything but mass mail. For example, if someone signs up, they get emailed the activation link from my smtp settings, same with recovery pw, subscribed topic, etc...

however, when I try to send out a mass mail test to myself, it doesn't work
I went to this guide
http://wiki.mybboard.net/index.php/Help:Mail
but "mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);" is nowhere in my php file. I only have the first few characters of that "my_mail($to, $subject, $message, $from="", $charset="","

I ran the test mail that was provided on that guide also but it said it could not send the mail

I am trying to find out why I can't send out mass email but the other emails work. Can't it just use the same smtp settings? What am I doing wrong?

Got it working! For anyone who experience this issue, be sure to check your task manager in ACP > Tools & Maintenance > Task Manager

Mass email will NOT work unless it is enabled in the task manager.
I just set mines to * for every minute, no need for very important emails to be sent in intervals of 15 minutes. Good luck Smile

(2009-11-15, 06:19 AM)altjx Wrote: [ -> ]First of all, I wanna thank you matt for helping me throughout the day. Much appreciated

I am able to send out mail through the gmail SMTP server for everything but mass mail. For example, if someone signs up, they get emailed the activation link from my smtp settings, same with recovery pw, subscribed topic, etc...

however, when I try to send out a mass mail test to myself, it doesn't work
I went to this guide
http://wiki.mybboard.net/index.php/Help:Mail
but "mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers);" is nowhere in my php file. I only have the first few characters of that "my_mail($to, $subject, $message, $from="", $charset="","

I ran the test mail that was provided on that guide also but it said it could not send the mail

I am trying to find out why I can't send out mass email but the other emails work. Can't it just use the same smtp settings? What am I doing wrong?
Got it working! For anyone who experience this issue, be sure to check your task manager in ACP > Tools & Maintenance > Task Manager

Mass email will NOT work unless it is enabled in the task manager.
I just set mines to * for every minute, no need for very important emails to be sent in intervals of 15 minutes. Good luck

It's set to 15 minutes, because many servers will blacklist your site as a spam harvesting server if you send out mass emails more frequently than that.

Ah, okay question. when I set it to * for every minute, it only sent out the one mass mail, and the "next run" time stayed the same. it didn't jump up to the next minute. Any clue why that happens? It didn't send the next test mass mail. I'm guessing I can only mass mail once every 15 minutes then?

Could you tell me what your task manager mass mail is set to? I changed mines to * and there's no reset button to change it back. It was before like 10,20,50, or something. Can you copy & paste to me what you have there?

altjx

Ryan Gordon

altjx