Only the first 20 emails are sent

DriesK,

Thanks for your extremely quick reply! I'm very grateful.

In response:

1. Does your cron.php actually run? Do you get a message like 'cron run completed' in the logs? Yes. Logs show cron run completing.

2. If the answer to 1. is yes, are other cron tasks than simplenews sending completed correctly (e.g. updating the search engine db, aggregating content, cleaning up the logs, ...). Yes, all other jobs complete well - a regular one is aggregating content which you can clearly see the results of.

3. What happens if you increase the 'initial send time' in simplenews settings? Which value is set now? If you set it to its maximum value, are there still only 20 e-mails being sent? It is set to maximum allowed by 'max_execution_time' which is 55 seconds. I have root access to the server so it would be possible to increase this.

With regards to you "seeing chat's going on in the db during sending", I have no problem providing you the details to do this (I'm a very trusting soul!) if it gets the problem fixed.

Thanks again for your help.

The icon shows 'Sent'.

Furthermore I've put a watchdog task in simplenews.module at line 746 (or thereabouts - my line numbers always seem to vary from everyone elses) as follows:

if(sn_mail_send($node)) {
db_query('UPDATE {sn_subscriptions} SET s_status = %d WHERE snid = %d', 1, $mail->snid);
$message = t('Newsletter %title sent to %email.', array('%title'=>theme('placeholder',$node->title), '%email'=>theme('placeholder',$mail->mail)));
watchdog('simplenews', $message, WATCHDOG_NOTICE);

And I am getting the reports that the emails are going through in the watchdog:

simplenews Dec 7 2005 - 1:16pm Newsletter Test Newsletter sent to XXXXX admin details

But, on the last run, I received absolutely no emails at all!

DriesK,

With regards to:

"The solution to your problem therfore has to be found elsewhere: either there is a problem with the sendmail configuration of your hoster, or (and that's more likely) your hoster limits the number of outgoing emails per time unit (can be per hour, per minute, ...). Try to ask them, and ask them if they can change this setting for you (if you can argument that you're not a spammer they may do that)"

I have complete control over the server - it's a dedicated server and I own it. So is this something that I could change myself? If so, where would I do it?

Thanks again for your help.

DriesK,

Found it. There is (was!) a mail wrapper on the server that was doing exactly what you said.

So that's absolutely brilliant - thank you very much for your help. And also a big plus for the Drupal community that we have going here: a support request that actually had nothing to do with the core product (Drupal) resolved by another member of the community in less than 2 hours. Where else could you get that?

Regards

Patrick