If CRON is enabled then the newsletter drip sends via a queue. By default there are 60 emails sent by cycle, and a cycle is 10 minutes. There are currently 8723 emails in the queue. I calculate that means 24 hours to send the newsletter.

The settings can be adjusted by some hidden options in Commandr:

:set_value('mails_per_send','123');

where 123 is the number of emails per cycle.

However, if an email sends out very quickly, it is very likely your hosting company could block your service - even if they don't want to, they often feel compelled to have harsh policies as heavy emailers have resulted in data centres being put on spam lists in the past.

Thanks for taking time to explain this Chris.

Where would I look to see the queue ?

Ignore that last request

Actually, I thought I had found the email queue but it does not contain the newsletter ones.

How do I see the newsletter queue ? Is it not exposed in a GUI ?

Cheers
Ade

It's the newsletter_drip_send table. I'll make a tweak in the next patch release so it says if there's anything in the queue.