Delayed sending of E-mails

[Sarah Luke]

I have the settings set at 200 per hour, but it only sent 9 and is now waiting an hour to send the rest. Can you look at the delivery history and explain what's going on? Day before yesterday, it took 24 hours to send 352 emails. Any insight would be most helpful.

[01] 8/12 11:44:37 ~ Status: Opening connection for delivery...
[01] 8/12 11:44:37 --> Connecting socket [1] with 16 entries to smtp.apexhighband.org Port:25
[01] 8/12 11:44:37 ~ Status: Connected
[01] 8/12 11:44:37 220 ESMTP Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:44:25 -0400: UCE strictly prohibited
[01] 8/12 11:44:37 > EHLO [192.168.1.13]
[01] 8/12 11:44:37 250-bosauthsmtp03.eigbox.net Hello [192.168.1.13] [71.70.169.147]
250-SIZE 34603008
250-PIPELINING
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
250-STARTTLS
250 HELP
[01] 8/12 11:44:37 > AUTH LOGIN
[01] 8/12 11:44:38 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
[01] 8/12 11:44:38 > [email protected]
[01] 8/12 11:44:38 334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
[01] 8/12 11:44:38 > ******
[01] 8/12 11:44:38 235 Authentication succeeded
[01] 8/12 11:44:38 > MAIL FROM:<[email protected]>
[01] 8/12 11:44:38 250 OK
[01] 8/12 11:44:38 > RCPT TO:<[email protected]> [1/16]
[01] 8/12 11:44:39 250 Accepted
[01] 8/12 11:44:39 354 Please start mail input.
[01] 8/12 11:44:39 250 Mail queued for delivery.
[01] 8/12 11:44:39 > MAIL FROM:<[email protected]>
[01] 8/12 11:44:39 250 OK
[01] 8/12 11:44:39 > RCPT TO:<[email protected]> [2/16]
[01] 8/12 11:44:40 250 Accepted
[01] 8/12 11:44:40 354 Please start mail input.
[01] 8/12 11:44:41 250 Mail queued for delivery.
[01] 8/12 11:44:41 > MAIL FROM:<[email protected]>
[01] 8/12 11:44:41 250 OK
[01] 8/12 11:44:41 > RCPT TO:<[email protected]> [3/16]
[01] 8/12 11:44:42 250 Accepted
[01] 8/12 11:44:42 354 Please start mail input.
[01] 8/12 11:44:42 250 Mail queued for delivery.
[01] 8/12 11:44:42 > MAIL FROM:<[email protected]>
[01] 8/12 11:44:43 250 OK
[01] 8/12 11:44:43 > RCPT TO:<[email protected]> [4/16]
[01] 8/12 11:44:44 250 Accepted
[01] 8/12 11:44:44 354 Please start mail input.
[01] 8/12 11:44:44 250 Mail queued for delivery.
[01] 8/12 11:44:44 > MAIL FROM:<[email protected]>
[01] 8/12 11:44:45 250 OK
[01] 8/12 11:44:45 > RCPT TO:<[email protected]> [5/16]
[01] 8/12 11:44:46 250 Accepted
[01] 8/12 11:44:46 354 Please start mail input.
[01] 8/12 11:44:46 250 Mail queued for delivery.
[01] 8/12 11:44:46 > MAIL FROM:<[email protected]>
[01] 8/12 11:44:47 250 OK
[01] 8/12 11:44:47 > RCPT TO:<[email protected]> [6/16]
[01] 8/12 11:44:48 250 Accepted
[01] 8/12 11:44:48 354 Please start mail input.
[01] 8/12 11:44:48 250 Mail queued for delivery.
[01] 8/12 11:44:48 > MAIL FROM:<[email protected]>
[01] 8/12 11:44:49 250 OK
[01] 8/12 11:44:49 > RCPT TO:<[email protected]> [7/16]
[01] 8/12 11:44:50 250 Accepted
[01] 8/12 11:44:50 354 Please start mail input.
[01] 8/12 11:44:50 250 Mail queued for delivery.
[01] 8/12 11:44:50 > MAIL FROM:<[email protected]>
[01] 8/12 11:44:51 250 OK
[01] 8/12 11:44:51 > RCPT TO:<[email protected]> [8/16]
[01] 8/12 11:44:52 250 Accepted
[01] 8/12 11:44:52 354 Please start mail input.
[01] 8/12 11:44:52 250 Mail queued for delivery.
[01] 8/12 11:44:52 > MAIL FROM:<[email protected]>
[01] 8/12 11:44:53 250 OK
[01] 8/12 11:44:53 > RCPT TO:<[email protected]> [9/16]
[01] 8/12 11:44:54 250 Accepted
[01] 8/12 11:44:54 354 Please start mail input.
[01] 8/12 11:44:54 250 Mail queued for delivery.
[01] 8/12 11:44:55 ~ Status: Stage 3 dispatch done [10/16]
[01] 8/12 11:44:55 ~ Status: Delay of 3600s [01:59:3541]
[01] 8/12 11:44:55 > QUIT
[01] 8/12 11:44:55 221 Closing connection. Good bye.
[01] 8/12 11:44:55 ~ Status: Stage 4 dispatch done [10/16]
[01] 8/12 11:44:55 ~ Status: Next Delivery in 01:00:00

 

[stanbusk]

What are your settings, group and interval?

 

[Sarah Luke]

Group is set at 200 and interval is 1 hour.

 

[Sarah Luke]

I was only sending 16 emails. I'm really confused why it takes so long. My server at ipower says I can send 100 emails at a time and 200 per hour with our current package.

 

[Sarah Luke]

One more thing, it didn't take 24 hours yesterday, it took 12. I started sending at 9:20 pm and it finished at 9:30 am. Thanks, Stan.

 

[stanbusk]

Do you get any 5xx or 4xx error in the connection log?

 

[Sarah Luke]

Where do I check the connection log?

 

[stanbusk]

It is the text that appears in the delivery panel.

 

[Sarah Luke]

This is how the delivery looked right before it stopped sending until the next hour. I don't see any errors at all in the delivery report.

[01] 8/12 11:44:53 > RCPT TO:<[email protected]> [9/16]
[01] 8/12 11:44:54 250 Accepted
[01] 8/12 11:44:54 354 Please start mail input.
[01] 8/12 11:44:54 250 Mail queued for delivery.
[01] 8/12 11:44:55 ~ Status: Stage 3 dispatch done [10/16]
[01] 8/12 11:44:55 ~ Status: Delay of 3600s [01:59:3541]
[01] 8/12 11:44:55 > QUIT
[01] 8/12 11:44:55 221 Closing connection. Good bye.
[01] 8/12 11:44:55 ~ Status: Stage 4 dispatch done [10/16]
[01] 8/12 11:44:55 ~ Status: Next Delivery in 01:00:00

 

[Sarah Luke]

I have reset my group number to 5 at a time and my interval to 1.5 minutes between with 5 connections at a time. This seems to be doing the trick. We'll see. Let me know if you have any other suggestions. Thanks.