Why does sending notifications take so long?

  • Resolved atpresent

    (@atpresent)


    6 years, 5 months ago

    I love the plugin – its has a lot of customization! I created an email notification for New Post Published and noticed that the publishing takes very long now (~ 2 – 3 min). I suppose sending of email is not queued in any way…Emails are being send out to about 50 people in my case. What I was wondering: If you use multiple “to” receipients, than sending emails to 10 or 100 people shouldn’t take any longer than to 1 person – at least on the WordPress site. My SMTP is Gmail (Gsuite) and Gmail supports up to 500 recipients asfaik. Any thoughts?

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  • Plugin Author bnfw

    (@voltronik)

    Hi @atpresent,
    Thanks for your message.

    Yes, BNFW uses multiple Tos to send notifications. The time it takes to send notifications and complete the PHP process is usually down to the speed and resources of the host.
    You can usually get around this by using the BCC field instead of the To field to send to all your recipients. You just need to use any email assigned to a user in the To field, such as ‘[email protected]’.

    Hope this helps.

    Thread Starter atpresent

    (@atpresent)

    Sweet, thanks for the repsonse! I will give the BCC definitely a try. Would still like to know where the slowdown occurs.

    Cheers,

    Plugin Author bnfw

    (@voltronik)

    Hi @atpresent,
    Great, let me know how you get on with your host re: the slowdown. I suspect they’re your first port-of-call.

    Thread Starter atpresent

    (@atpresent)

    I switched to BCC and as you suggested this did speed things up a lot. I haven’t made any progress on why the to-field is so much slower.

    Cheers,

    Plugin Author bnfw

    (@voltronik)

    Hi @atpresent,
    Pleased to hear that’s working better for you now.

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