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Gunnar Mathisen
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November 10, 2015 at 2:39 pm
I’m testing Event Espresso, and I need an option to send an email to all participants of an event. I’ve figured out that I can use the “Send Batch Message” funtion, but when I’m on the registrations page, it seems I can only select 10 participants at a time (which are as many as are listed on each page).
Is there any way to send a batch email to all participants, not just 10 at a time?
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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November 10, 2015 at 3:34 pm
Hi Gunnar,
You can raise the pagination option by going to Screen Options (top right area of page) and then changing 10 to a higher value like 100 and then saving.
Your page will then refresh and you should see more registrants/attendees.
Thanks
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Lorenzo
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Gunnar Mathisen
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November 11, 2015 at 12:04 am
OK, thanks. I knew there was something I was overlooking…
Are all the emails sent immediately, so I might risk a timeout if I send to too many registrants at the same time?
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Tony
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November 11, 2015 at 3:23 am
Currently yes they are.
It depends on your server on how many emails will be sent before a timeout, you may want to use smaller numbers such as 50. Also your mailserver may also have a limit on the amount of emails you can send per hour (usually to try and prevent spam) so you may want to check into that too.
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Gunnar Mathisen
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November 11, 2015 at 3:08 pm
I’m planning on sending everyting directly from the webserver, so there isn’t a problem with mailserver limits. I think I could probably send quite a few emails this way without timeout issues, but to be on the safe side, I’ll probably hack together some sort of batch processing for this. I had a look at your code for sending emails, and it doesn’t look like this would be too hard to set up.
I will also be setting up a cron job for sending out automatic reminders a few days before the events, so I’ll need to add some background email processing anyway.
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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November 11, 2015 at 3:16 pm
Hello again Gunnar,
With that many emails, I would definitely consider using a transactional email service:
https://eventespresso.com/wiki/postmark-app-mandrill-transactional-email-handling-services/
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Lorenzo
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