The options these provide will be available in phpBB's ACP at least as far sending goes. The only thing they may have is the option to limit how many are sent per hour which phpBB does not have. *The help link suggests using WP Mail SMTP or PHPMailer. PHPMailer appears to be the solution.
Under email settings at the bottom of the page is option to use SMTP. Typically this is used for third party email services. If this is set to yes then according to the help documentation for your host it's limited to 100 emails per hour when using their SMTP services.
If it's set to no email is sent using the servers built in email service and according to your hosts documentation it would be limited to 200 per hour on shared hosting and unlimited with VPS or greater. Also note they list 40 address per email with shared hosting so you want to change "Maximum allowed email recipients:" to 40. If you are on a VPS just set SMTP to no and you should be good to go.
If you want to exceed these limits:
1. With the SMTP option use a third party email service that doesn't have these limits.
2. Find a host or plan without these limitations. You are probably not going to find shared hosting plan without these limitations.
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3. *Untested but you may be able to limit this with cron. Set SMPT to no. Set "Maximum allowed email recipients:" to 1, email package size should be left at 20. Go into server settings and set "Run periodic tasks from system cron:" to yes. You'll need to set up cron job in the hosting control panel to execute every 8 minutes and it should only send about 150 emails per hour, at least that is what I'm expecting to happen.
Cron job command that should work if you are using Cpanel, you'll need to edit in the specifics:
Code:
/usr/local/bin/php /home/<your domain without the tld>/public_html/<sub folder(s) if required>/bin/phpbbcli.php cron:runStatistics: Posted by thecoalman — Wed Jan 17, 2024 3:18 am