Windows Server - How can I speed up the SMTP mail Queue?
I have a Windows Server with Godaddy and my limit of emails that I can send out with the server has been risen to 20,000.
Now the problem I'm having is, I sent out a newsletter to all the members of my site, which is around 14,000 members, but the emails are taking forever to be sent. I ran the script yesterday and it seems to be only sending out less than 50 emails per an hour on average
I went into the outgoing SMTP Queue and there's a few thousand emails just waiting to be sent out.
How can I speed up this process so that the emails get sent out quicker?
Now the problem I'm having is, I sent out a newsletter to all the members of my site, which is around 14,000 members, but the emails are taking forever to be sent. I ran the script yesterday and it seems to be only sending out less than 50 emails per an hour on average
I went into the outgoing SMTP Queue and there's a few thousand emails just waiting to be sent out.
How can I speed up this process so that the emails get sent out quicker?
ASKER
The emails are no bigger than 20 KB each. Also, this server is with Godaddy so internet connection is really good.
Do you have control of the server to allow more outbound connections at once?
ASKER
Yeah I have control of the server, how would I do the outbound connections thing?
What version of Exchange do you have on the server?
ASKER
I have windows 2003 server. How do i find the exchange version?
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I don't think I have exchange and if I do, I don't know how to get to it.
This is the folder location of the queued emails
C:\SWSoft\Plesk\Mail Servers\Mail Enable\Queues\SMTP\Outgoin
This is the folder location of the queued emails
C:\SWSoft\Plesk\Mail Servers\Mail Enable\Queues\SMTP\Outgoin
You would probably be better off talking to GoDaddy as they will be able to advise you if they don't have Exchange on there.
Without knowing what the software is I cannot advise any further I'm afraid.
Without knowing what the software is I cannot advise any further I'm afraid.
ASKER
No I figured it out, your instructions were good, I just wasn't sure where to look but I figured it out.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Okay - sorry. Glad you got there and hope the mails fly out. Thanks for the points.
Best wishes
Alan
Best wishes
Alan
How big is a single email from one of your newsletters and how fast is your internet connection both Up and Down?
If you send out an email that is about 1Mb in size and you have a 1Mb upload speed, you are looking at sending out constantly for nearly 39 hours with 14,000 emails!