We're looking to use Simplenews for our corporate newsletter and it's got about 15,000 subscribers now. Would Simplenews handle that without problem, and what cron settings should I set? Thanks!

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jonathanwinn commented

I am also interested in this, though I have fewer subscribers. Is there a way to "batch" import the email addresses I already have into some kind of anonymous user list?

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jonathanwinn commented

I am also interested in this, though I have fewer subscribers. Is there a way to "batch" import the email addresses I already have into some kind of anonymous user list?

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jonathanwinn commented

Aha, I found that you can import addresses by going to admin > Content Management > Newsletters > Subscriptions > Import Subscriptions and entering a comma separated list. That's fine, but I'd also like to add First/Last name information and some other columns of data I have associated with my list. Is something like that on the horizon?

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rickvug commented

If you do this please post how it goes. Later this year the company that I work for (www.imagexmedia.com) will be using Simplenews for an even larger mailing list. We'll let you know how it faired and will be sure to contribute any code.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

I'm running Simplenews with 12k emails on hostmysite.com with the 50k email plan. It's been 3 days now and the status still says "currently sending by cron".

The problem is, i can't find a log or a way to find out how many emails are sent, and to whom have they been sent to, or how far it's gone through my list... It's frustrating, but i'll reply again if i find any results...

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Ok so it seemed to me after 3 weeks that it's still pending, it's not sending all the emails. So after experimenting with some patching, phpmailer, etc.. I noticed that they all use the same underlying SMTP.. So that wasn't the problem.

Finally, what i did to solve the problem is notice that Poormanscron isn't installed (i could have sworn i did install it..). so i installed it (and enabled logging for it), the website was heavy in responding for a few minutes, but after that, the Pending icon changed to Complete, and the logs showed that it sent all the emails.

I might have to tweak the settings a bit to let it send, say, 1k or 5k emails per cron cycle, instead of - what it's set to now - unlimited, to reduce the load.

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sutharsan commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Simplenews is used by drupal.org of its newsletters, so yes, simplenews can handle large a number of subscribers.

When mailing by means of (poorman's) cron, make shure that the number of newsletter per cron run and the time between cron's are set in such a way that all newsletters of the previous cron run are send before the next cron is started. Even with high server load due to (other) website trafic.

jonathanwinn: re first and last name. No, simplenews does not provide this feature.

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Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.