We're having major problems with the mass_contact module. When trying to send a message to all registered members ("authenticated user") I receive about 50 copies of the email (me being user 1 and sender of the message). Also there appears to be a user ID cut-off beyond which messages are not received, somewhere around 50. I haven't been able to pin down exactly where this is, but certainly new, high ID test users I have created do not receive the message.

We have about 500 registered users.

I installed mass_contact from cvs, however I verified (diff) that this is the same code as the latest 2.x-dev release.

Thanks
Matthew

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matthewc-1’s picture

matthewc-1 commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

The messages failing to send to all users was due to a dumb smtp throttling restriction at the host end. The multiple copies received by the sender is due every broken up "bcc" message beings sent "to" the sender's email address. I guess there is no way around this, if bcc is used, since something has to go in the "to" field.

I'm closing this bug but perhaps some note about this in the documentation would be useful.

Thanks
Matthew

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oadaeh commented

If you are using the SMTP Auth module (and I know you are) and you are sending with BCC, then you will get a copy of each message for every recipient you send to because of the way Mass Contact deals with the SMTP Auth module. If your patch to the SMTP Auth module addresses that, then this problem will go away when I remove the SMTP Auth specific code in Mass Contact.