By spade on

Hello,

I have my server's crontab set to run every 60 minutes, mainly to do an SQLDump. I also send out a newsletter to about 6000 subscribers. Right now the mailing takes two hours with the Mail backend set to 25 seconds and Cron throttle at 3000.

How can I speed up the delivery of the newsletters without getting the SQLDump more often?

I hesitate setting the Cron throttle to unlimited out of fear to exceed the max_execution_time I am allowed to use by my ISP. I don't know what the situation will be when that happens and how to recover from there (and I don't want to send multiple copies of the newsletters to or subscribers).

Is it possible to setup a cronjob to just do the mailing and if so how would I do that?

Please advise.

Kind regards,

Frank

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spade commented

Sorry, I didn't figure it out until now.

I just set the cronjob to execute every 5 minutes. Since backup_migrate has it's own scheduler everything is fine.

Kind regards,

Frank