Dear Friends,

I want to send more than 5000 inviation email. I set the email batch size to 60. Then I need to click the "send invitations" button for more than 80 times. Besides that the email administrtor help me to send the email batch every 15 minutes, that is: I send the fire email batch on 12:00, the second email bath on 12:15 or later, and so on.

Is there any way to do it automatically? thanks.

There is a few options here:

• You can use a cron plugin to automatically send out invitations, I think a solution already exist for purchase somewhere.
• You can use the API to invite_participants(), api.limesurvey.org/classes/remotecontrol..._invite_participants , simply loop the survey until all the invitations has been sent, make sure to add some delay otherwise you will most likely get listed as a spammer
• A more ugly way would be to have a click function on a server somewhere, click "invite participants" every 15 min, could be coded as a bash script and identify the button for invitations, same as above, use some kind of delay

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Deusdeorum wrote: There is a few options here:

• You can use a cron plugin to automatically send out invitations, I think a solution already exist for purchase somewhere.
• You can use the API to invite_participants(), api.limesurvey.org/classes/remotecontrol..._invite_participants , simply loop the survey until all the invitations has been sent, make sure to add some delay otherwise you will most likely get listed as a spammer
• A more ugly way would be to have a click function on a server somewhere, click "invite participants" every 15 min, could be coded as a bash script and identify the button for invitations, same as above, use some kind of delay

I would like to use the third method. Would you please let me know where can I find such script? Thanks

I set the email batch size to 60, and used the following scipte in VBA

Set aaa = ie.Document.getElementsByName("yt0")
For ii = 0 To aaa.Length - 1
If aaa(ii).Value = "Send invitations" Then aaa(ii).Click
Next

It does work and can click the "Send invitations" button automatically. However, it seems send all email in one time, not 60 emails in one time. If I hope only send one batch email (that is 60 emails), what should I do? Thanks.

Did you look at :
- www.limesurvey.org/index.php?option=com_...dMailAjax&Itemid=729
=> extensions.sondages.pro/mailing-manageme...k/documentation.html
?

DenisChenu wrote: Did you look at :
- www.limesurvey.org/index.php?option=com_...dMailAjax&Itemid=729
=> extensions.sondages.pro/mailing-manageme...k/documentation.html
?

Thank you very much. I read those materials, they are not what I need.

I need to send more than 5000 email invitations. I set the email batch size to 60, that is it will send 60 email every time. And I hope can send one batch every 15 mintues. So I have to wait for 15 minutes to click the "send invitations" button. I want to know is there any method can be used to click the button automatically every 15 minutes for me.

I can't send all 5000 email in one during to the limitation of the ISP.

Using VBA in Excel, now I can automatically click the "send invitations" buttons and send email every 10 minutes (or other interval specified).

I set the email batch size to 60. But every time emails sent were not 60, it seemed to be 41. I don't know why.

I used the following vba script in Excel. But today only 40 emails were sent even the email batch size is still 60. I don't know why. Any one can help? thanks.

Sub send_Click()
Dim ie As Object
Dim iabcd As Integer

iabcd = 1

For iabcd = 1 To 10
Set ie = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")

ie.Navigate " www.sample.com/survey/index.php?r=admin/...mail/surveyid/533664 "
ie.Visible = True
While ie.ReadyState <> 4
DoEvents
Wend

If ie.locationurl <> " www.sample.com/survey/index.php?r=admin/...mail/surveyid/533664 " Then
ie.Document.getElementById("user").Value = "username"
ie.Document.getElementById("password").Value = "password"
ie.Document.all("login_submit").Click
While ie.ReadyState <> 4
DoEvents
Wend
End If

ptb = 3
stb = Timer
Do While Timer < stb + ptb
DoEvents
Loop


ie.Document.all("yt0").Click

ptc = 3
stc = Timer
Do While Timer < stc+ ptc
DoEvents
Loop


If iabcd <> 10 Then
ie.Quit
pt = 60 * 10
st = Timer
Do While Timer < st + pt
DoEvents
Loop
End If

Next
ie.Quit
End Sub

What happens if you click the button manually? Is it still sending only 40 emails?

Deusdeorum wrote: What happens if you click the button manually? Is it still sending only 40 emails?

No, if i click the button manually, it will send 60 emails.

Now it only send 39 email when I use the VBA script. It seems from 43 to 42, 42 to 41, 41 to 40, and now 39. I don't know why.

Mazi wrote: .....e sending such a huge amount of emails should definitely by done in batches to prevent being treated as spam or being put on blacklists.
.....

:blink: sending it in batch dpon't change the spam issue, really no reason.

And if the server have some condiguration issue (for example on ISP limit email 1 by second, if you send 2 in one second : all next message is refused) then : batch can broke more sneding email.

mrli999 already said he can not use batch like that because his hoster/ISP limit sending email.

@mrli999 : have the project to limit batch size globally and by survey in sendMailCron plugin. DOn't know when, but if you'r interested : follow the project.

Denis

DenisChenu wrote: sending it in batch dpon't change the spam issue, really no reason.

Yes, it does. Especially for learning spam filters analysing ongoing mailserver traffic. These systems tend to lower the spam threshold if lots of emails are send within short time from a certain IP. Thus, using smaller batches and sending emails every 30 minutes instead of every 2 minutes may help.

DenisChenu wrote: And if the server have some condiguration issue (for example on ISP limit email 1 by second, if you send 2 in one second : all next message is refused) then : batch can broke more sneding email.
mrli999 already said he can not use batch like that because his hoster/ISP limit sending email.

Of course it depends on the configuration details. But if there are such limits, a cronjob is a good choice because you can easily configure it to stay within the required limits e.g. by increasing the delay between the different script calls.

@DenisChenu @ Mazi Thank you very much for your help and all efforts. I really love limesurvey, it is powerful. Thanks.

Some more information:
1. This morning, I manually click the "send invitations" button. The batch size is still 60, but it send more than 60 emails. And the IE windows keep being busy. I have to interrupt the window by closing it.

2. Using SMTP in limesurvey, it will send email one by one until reach the email batch size. The ISP doesn't restrict such kind of sending behavior. The ISP doesn't allow: sending too many email in 15 minutes (no more than 700 email using the same aacount; no more than 1500 email using the samp IP).

So I hope to send the second batch of emails 15 minutes later after the first batch. That is, first batch (for example 60 emails), waiting 15 minutes, second batch (also 60 emails), waiting 15 minutes and another batch.

3. I am not a programer. As a user, I think maybe you can do as the following
a. Add another input just below the "email batch size" , it can be: Batch Interval. Here user can set the interval between two batch.
b. In the page "send email invitations", maybe can add another input: MAX emails you want to send today. And then change the now submit to "Send one batch invitations", and add another button-"Send MAX invitations"

Thanks again!

Another information:

This morning, even the batch size is 60, it will only send 35 emails every time. So I changed the batch size to 70, then it will send 45 emails. I think this problem was caused by failing email.(Most probably) .

Then I passed the value Y to ''bypassbademails" using the following code: ie.Document.getElementById("bypassbademails").Value = "Y". But it still sent only 35 emails when batch size is 60.

Can you please let me know how to reslove this problem using VBA? THANKS