Send mail using SMTP without exceeding the the rate allowed by your mail provider(s). Mail can be sent using multiple user logins/passwords to give fault tolerance and make each mail message somewhat unique so that it is less likely to be flagged as SPAM/UCE by either your or the downstream mail providers. Messages can be automatically reset when the plugin detects Non-delivery messages (NDRs) returned from mail sent by the plugin.
Email can be throttled per outbound SMTP account. Limits can be set for maximum number of recipients per hour and per day.
Non-Delivery Processing
Non-Delivery (NDR) messaging processing note: plugin should recognize common non-delivery formats. But, because non-deliveries are free form, and can be highly customized or specifically localized the plugin may not recognize the message. If you provide a sample non-delivery message we can make the plug-in a little smarter.
Feature List
- Sends mail via SMTP
- Send mail no faster than the configured number of recipients per hour/day. Keeps you in complience with your providers email sending limits.
- Configure multiple SMTP accounts to use for sending messages (Gmail, MSN, Go-daddy, etc)
- Process non-delivery messages and automatically resend messages
- Keep record of sent mail messages so that you can prove to your provider you didn’t send SPAM
- Automatically stops sending email when errors encountered, auotmatically restarts after configured period of time
- Dashboard display of mail sending statistics
Benefits:
- Using multiple email accounts makes it less likely that your email will be incorrectly flagged as SPAM by downstream providers
- Use in combination with other email newsletter, sending and formatting WordPress plug-ins
- Reduces non-delivered mail due to invalid SPAM flagging or exceeding near or downstream provider sending/recieving limits
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Mail Queues Setup List
Setup new SMTP mail Queue
Message Queue Test Message Generation
Stalled Mail Display
Non-Delivery Processing Options, Debugging and Testing Options
Queuing and Dequeing Options, Non-Delivery Processing Options
Message Queues Status Display
If I use this plugin am I able to disable the e-mail server functions on my web server? I’m thinking if it sends mail by SMTP the same way an e-mail client like Thunderbird does then there is no reason to have any active e-mail services and that would close down a lot of vulnerabilities.
The Mail Queues plug-in does not care where the SMTP services are running. The SMTP connection could be to your own mail server, or your ISPs, or a random third-party like gmail.
My experience is that email is more likely to be blocked as SPAM/UCE if your are using a local email server. The folks who are running the larger SMTP server put more effort into maintaining their server reputation than most of us could do on our own. Running your own private SMTP server is great because you get control, but problematic if you are running in a shared server environment, or don’t have the time/expertise to manage all of the details that keep your mail server reputation as a valid sender.
Of course when you use your ISPs mail services, or a third-party mail service you must behave by additional rules that provider sets. Often these rules include send rate limits, and perhaps having to respond to MTA generated non-delivery reports. That’s why you want a plug-in like Mail Queues.
Hi
Trying to use mail queue with my blog and hit a problem in that it requires smot authorisation which I unfortunately can’t set with your plugin. Mail is hosted by 1and 1. My outlook emiail client which works with this email account has authorisation turned on and uses port 587. I sthere any other information that will help?
Is there a code mod I can do to solve this problem
Thanks
Tony
I’m guessing you meant smtp authorization? If that is the case the plugin should work. My test system is sending and receiving via gmail and hotmail, both accounts use 587 and require passwords. I’m not sure how to go about finding the cause of your issue?
Hello,
Firstly, thank you for your (free) plugin.
My SMTP server requires the use of ‘AUTH’ to send mail. How can I configure your plugin to use this and how can I enter the AUTH settings?
Many thanks!
I’ve installed the plugin for use with Subscribe2. I see emails are sent to the queue but they don’t get sent (I’ve created 2 different mail queues). What’s needed to trigger sending and/or clear the queues?
Thanks.
After much testing it seems Mail Queues doesn’t work for a WordPress blog that is password protected by .htaccess. Is there a workaround?
Thanks.
Could be the mail log file? Double check that your .htaccess allows the mail queue plugin to write to the log file. Or modify the plugin code to not write to the log file.
Thanks for the quick response. To save a lot of back and forth, if it is any help if you contact me by mail I can give you details of an email account to try forwarded as well to another email of your choice. Error on mail queue screen is:
Check server and port in Mail Queues Settings Page.
POP3 pass: Authentication failed [-ERR [AUTH] Username and password not accepted.]
Have checked carefull userneme and password several times. Account works fine via outlook.
Excellent plugin – works perfectly for me, so I’ll send a donation soon. Just one thing. I can’t find the mail log file anywhere amongst my site’s files. What will it be named, and in which directory will I find it?
Thanks,
Andrew.
Ah, I see the log files go in the wp-content directory and are named like mail-1.log.
Andrew.
Hi,
I used the plugin last month and it works perfectly, but now that I’m supposed to send the monthly newsletter it stop working at all.
I’ve tryed using different mail servers and deactivating other plugins but still no working.
I don’t know is there was a change or something but is no longer working.
I tested today with a gmail account and look seems no email is send “5 unsent messages in the queue ready to send” I made 5 different email addresses tests.
I tested the settings. It worked. Then, I published a new post and it seemed like the email to subscribers completely bypassed the plugin. Is there a difference between posting (automatically notifying subscribers) and actually emailing? I have MailPress plugin installed.
Could mailpress be handling the mail sending? I don’t use it so I can’t tell you.
Hello,
i am quite new in this business. Which newsletterplugin works in combination with MailQueues?
best regards
Any newsletter plugin that is compatible with WordPress and doesn’t override the mail sending functions should work.
Hello,
i have some problems configuring mai queues.
1. it sends very slow
2. sending stopps, if there are is a error…
i cant find any support adress, can anyone help?
best regards
Sending speed is dependent on the server response and the throttle. Keeping things slow helps reduce being flagged as a spammer.
Mail Queues permanantly deactivates the wordpress delivery maschine?!?
How can i avoid it or, how can i deactivate the deactivating of the deliverymaschine by mail queues?
kind regards
It deactivates when message counts reach the limits, too many non-delivery messages appear, or the server actively refuses the connection. You can change the code to ignore these conditions, or you can see what is causing the errors.
Setup today on WordPress 3.4.2 and it seems to be working great. The only thing I saw that could use improvement was in the Message Queue Status where it shows last success and last failure, it uses server time rather than taking into account the timezone set in the WordPress settings. Great plugin, thanks.
I agree, this would be a good improvement. The only question is the mail headers usually have UTC time, so if we show local time does it make it harder to search the incoming/outgoing messages to find an error when it happens?
I’m trying to test mail queues to send email through 1and1.com as my ISP. I keep getting failures and can’t figure out why. Is there a log file or something that would help to debug or troubleshoot the connection.
Yes the log file should appear in your content or plugin directory when enabled.
Hi, love your product! Since automatically updates to WP 3.5 a couple of days ago, I keep getting the following error message: “Warning: Missing argument 2 for wpdb::prepare(), called in /home/deepgree/public_html/wp-content/plugins/mail-queues/pbci-mail.php on line 471 and defined in /home/deepgree/public_html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 990″
Is there a fix in the works via an update or is there something I can do to address this? I appreciate any assistance you can offer.
Best regards,
Greg Basco
I’ll take a look at it. We have been holding off testing on 3.5 due to the holiday shopping season.
Greg,
I sent you an email with a potential fix.
Jeff
I understand. I probably should have waited to upgrade WP but what’s done is done
Best regards,
Greg Basco
Can I get the same 3.5 version fix for wpdb::prepare() ?
Thanks
Can I get the same 3.5 version fix for missing argument 2
Thanks
Is there a WP 3.5 version ? I have the same errors mentioned above
3.5 fix, looks like I’m having the same issues
I’ll post the fix to the plugin repository, here is a reference to the cause of the problem.
http://make.wordpress.org/core/2012/12/12/php-warning-missing-argument-2-for-wpdb-prepare/
Version 1.0.7 is live. Let me know if there are any problems.
I still get an error in the updated plugin and it doesn’t appear anything is coming of the queue. It looks like error is in line 425 and 1349. I’m using version 1.0.7
I’ll take another look, based on the WP article it is only a warning generated by the new behavior and does not impact the operation.
1.0.8 is uploaded removing two more superfluous prepare calls
I use this plugin, and for some reason it keeps sending to SMTP old emails that were already been sent.
I tried to delet all Stalled Mail, but the queue is being regenerated and I don’t know why.
I disabled the plugin of post notofication, that adds mail to queue, so no mails should be added.
I couldn’t find any way to reset/delete the queue, couldn’t even find a way to view the queue.
So it just keeps sending old mails over and over again to the subscribers.
How could this be handled?
Thanks ahead
Check the mailbox that is used to collect the non-delivery messages. It might be that the non-delivery messages are causing the mail to be re-queued?
Installed v1.08 of the plugin, and having a major issue!
Queue table is created with msg_from NOT NULL column, however when inserting to the table in the pbci_mail_queue msg_from is not set, therefore I get the error WordPress database error: [Field 'msg_from' doesn't have a default value] whenever testing or sending and email!
Is this a known issue? Of this version. Not sure it matters, but I’m running it on WP 3.5.1
Haven’t heard of this issue before.
First thing to check is why a from isn’t being set. Are the plugin and WordPress mail fields all configured properly?
Yup, if you mean the admin email, yes that is setup. And i’ve also setup a queue before testing (gmail’s smtp).
I will try on a clean install, but just by looking at the plugins code you can see the issue, the create table set’s msg_from as NOT NULL, the pbci_mail_queue method does not set the column when saving the email to the queue table, unless there’s some sort of filter/action that is meant to populate it beind the scenes that I may have missed?
as a test I set the column as nullable, disabled the plugin, dropped the table manually, enabled the plugin, table was created with column as nullable, ensured a queue was set (which was) and then I started having [Field 'queue_id' doesn't have a default value]
At this point I gave up and uninstalled it completely!
Shame cause I really wanted to be able to use it.
Odd issue with the cron. The queues list says: “Message queues will be checked again 0 seconds from now. That is after March 4, 2013, 9:45:07″
That was the time the plugin was installed. Using ‘Core Control’ plugin the cron for do_mail_dequeue is shown as being a once-off. If I manually run it from there then it is fine but what could be stopping this updating to the next 10-minute run?
MaFt
Looking through the plugin code it looks like the ‘once_off’ is by design. However that means the issue is now with the plugin not actually updating the next scheduled de-queue.
Any ideas what I can do to test?! It works when run manually, the issue is only with it not updating the time for the next run.
I just installed Mail Queues this morning and see the same message about “Message queues will be checked again 0 seconds from now. That is after May 5, 2013, 5:45:07″
All of my test messages and other messages are being queued, but the cron does not seem to be running to actually send them. there are 3 test messages from Mail Queue itself, plus two more from other WP mail functions.
I installed mail queues v 1.0.8 under WordPress 3.5.1
I have deactivates all other plugins, and even gone back to the 20-11 theme.
I tried deactivating mail queues and re-activating, but the messages are still in the queue, and the “Message queues will be checked again 0 seconds from now. That is after May 5, 2013, 5:45:07″ is still the same.
I have checked the settings over and over, but I do not see a place to say “hey cron, get a move on”. I have left the queueing and dequeing settings at the defaults.
I would really like to use this plugin; it’s the only thing like it out there, but it needs to actually send messages and not just queue them.
Thanks!
Ok, it looks like the cron finally kicked in, but I am missing something as far as set up goes … the emails are going into the queue, which is great. but, when they come out, it looks like the “To” address is being replaced with nothing at all … I have unchecked log all, made the test/debug fields blank. The emails are not getting sent and I am not sure how to proceed. This is what the mail.log file says (I have replace actual email addresses). :
>— Overrode TO, instead of myname@email.com used address
>— Overrode TO, instead of anothername@anotheremail.com used address
>— Overrode TO, instead of etc@etc.com used address
The error log would indicate that my server is rejecting the emails because they do not have a recipient address.
Why is the TO being overridden? How can I reset that?
Thanks!