Email delay

[tfs]

Every once in a while I'll have an email seemingly get stuck in the queue and delay for up to a day.  It seems to coincide with weekends when nobody is using the help desk.  As soon as I go to the help desk and refresh pages, the email is sent.

Enable Mail Queue = Yes (Checked)
Maximum emails to send per minute = 0
Maximum amount of emails to send per page load = 0
Mail type = PHP default

Are emails only sent when pages are refreshed?  If a client posts a reply, and then closes their browser, does that mean that the notification email will sit until another user refreshes a page?

Is there a way to prevent that without disabling the mail queue?

[venguard223]

No, because of how the system is designed.

The mail queue is only processed when pages on the forum are accessed, that's what triggers the sending. Normally a forum is hit up by search engines which as a by product ensure the queue is cleared.

There was, back a bit, a script in SMF's SVN that could process the mail queue via a cron job instead of relying on page loads, but I haven't seen it and have no idea how to make it work, SleePy would likely be able to tell you more.

[tfs]

Thanks, that's exactly the info I was looking for.  I didn't know how that mail queue worked.  I'll either setup something on my PC to access the forum periodically, or turn off the mail queue.