Title: Post Emails Random
Last modified: September 1, 2023

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# Post Emails Random

 *  [Scott_McCoy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scott_mccoy/)
 * (@scott_mccoy)
 * [2 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-emails-random/)
 * I created a few post notification emails for a handful of subscribers and have
   them in separate groups using categories. I’ve checked everything multiple times
   over two days and I can’t figure out why sometimes when a new post is created,
   it sends e-mails out correctly, but other posts send out no emails. And even 
   sending to the same category (exactly the same way to the same group) will sometimes
   work and sometimes not work. This makes no sense and I’m about to give up.

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 *  Plugin Support [Ojoma a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geraltrivia/)
 * (@geraltrivia)
 * [2 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-emails-random/#post-17026621)
 * Hello there [@scott_mccoy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scott_mccoy/) ,
 * Thank you for contacting us regarding the issue with your post notification emails.
   I’m sorry to hear that you are experiencing inconsistencies with the email delivery,
   and I understand how frustrating this can be.
 * To help you better, I would like to ask a few questions:
    - How have you set up your post notification email? Have you set this up to 
      send emails every weekday for example? How many emails have you included to
      be sent in your post notification email?
    - Did you create separate post notification emails for the different subscriber
      lists on your account?
    - Are the posts that failed to send emails published or scheduled?
    - For the posts that do not send, are there notifications created as normal 
      posts or events for example?
 * Please provide us with as much information as possible so that we can investigate
   further and provide a solution to this issue.
 * Looking forward to hearing from you.
 *  Thread Starter [Scott_McCoy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scott_mccoy/)
 * (@scott_mccoy)
 * [2 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-emails-random/#post-17027744)
 * I have it set to send emails immediately. I started with the default WordPress
   cron, which worked sometimes and didn’t work sometimes.
   In trying to fix the 
   issue, I switched to a server cron every 2 minutes. Again, it sends sometimes
   and other times never does. There isn’t any logic to it that I can see. It’s 
   not just one category or list, for example. It’s random.All posts are immediately
   published.I don’t understand your question about ‘notifications as normal posts?’
   I’m using my own email server. It’s setup correctly. I always use my own server
   and all other plugins I have that send e-mail notifications are working perfectly.
   The emails are setup correctly in your plugin. I know this because they do send
   sometimes. But again, it’s a total guess if it will send or not.I can create 
   a new post and the e-mails never send. After 30 minutes, I can delete the post
   and create a new one (copy/paste the content and duplicate the original deleted
   post), then it will send. How is that possible? This proves everything is setup
   correctly because it does work sometimes.
 *  Thread Starter [Scott_McCoy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scott_mccoy/)
 * (@scott_mccoy)
 * [2 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-emails-random/#post-17027797)
 * Here is more…
 * I posted a new news post this morning. It didn’t send immediately as it is setup.
   After about 30 minutes, I finally got the e-mail notification. However, it sent
   it using the wrong email!
   I have a category, list, and e-mail notification setup
   for three different uses. My post was for my “INTERNAL: Partners” list/category.
   As you can see in the screenshots, everything is setup correctly. But, the last
   screenshot shows what I actually received — which it used the “Administration”
   email. I have no idea if the e-mails that sent went to the Admin list or to the
   Partners list. But I checked everything and it’s all setup correctly for each
   email notification.You can also see it’s set to send “immediately” which worked
   a few times in testing last week because when it did send, I got it within a 
   few minutes. This test took nearly 30 minutes. The server cron is set for 2 minutes.
   There is definitely something wrong here.
 * ![](https://wordpress.org/9424cd5a-ac1a-4f84-9115-977bf01d7c89)
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 *  Thread Starter [Scott_McCoy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scott_mccoy/)
 * (@scott_mccoy)
 * [2 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-emails-random/#post-17027801)
 * I can’t tell if my screenshots worked here. So here is the URL:
 * [https://cloud.atlantaillinoistourism.com/index.php/s/Qi9zFGd7pGAxmwA](https://cloud.atlantaillinoistourism.com/index.php/s/Qi9zFGd7pGAxmwA)
 *  Thread Starter [Scott_McCoy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scott_mccoy/)
 * (@scott_mccoy)
 * [2 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-emails-random/#post-17028279)
 * On the last issue (wrong email), I redid everything and tested and that seems
   to be working now. So disregard that and I’ll bring it back up if it happens 
   again.

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 * Last reply from: [Scott_McCoy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scott_mccoy/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-emails-random/#post-17028279)
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