@agirlsdreamday
Your subscribers should be confirming themselves, they get an email with a link to click that changes them from a (red) unconfirmed subscribers to a (black) confirmed subscriber.
you can confirm them yourself using the Toggle Action which changes subscribers between confirmed and unconfirmed statuses. The risk here is if the sign up email is a spam email you don’t really want that confirming, you want it deleting – which happens automatically after 28 days if the address remains unconfirmed.
Thanks for getting back to me… the problem was that they weren’t actually receiving these emails to confirm themselves. However after changing the below to 30 they seem to be getting them now. Can you tell me if 30 is a reasonable number to set this at? and what the below actually means?
Restrict the number of recipients per email to (0 for unlimited): 30 Edit
@agirlsdreamday
That setting won’t have made any difference to the confirmation emails but it will to live posts.
When you make a new post the plugin will try to send the email. With that setting as 1, individual emails will be sent direct to each subscriber. If that setting is something other than 1 then emails are sent to the configured sender email with subscriber details in the BCC email header. So your current setting means 30 subscribers are added to each email, so if you have 70 subscribers you will get 3 emails created, the first 2 with 30 BCC recipients and the last email with the other 10.
That makes sense. Thanks very much.
Don’t suppose you have any ideas why people may have stopped receiving emails then temporarily?
Thank you for the toggle advice. I have manually subscribed those ones are these are mainly friends and family at the moment.
@agirlsdreamday
It’s usually a server side limitation on the sending of emails, check with your hosting provider what you limit is and turn off any admin notification emails you don’t need – perhaps things like comments and pingback notifications for example.
@mattyrob
So last night I uploaded a post, I received an email to say a new post has been posted but form my subscribers who I have asked, they haven’t received one 🙁
Any ideas?
@agirlsdreamday
Install an email logging plugin like this one:
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/email-log/
That will show you what emails are being generated.
Ask your subscribers to check spam folders too.
If the emails are showing as being generated and not in spam folders you need to speak with your hosting provider about why the emails are not being sent on your server.
