The Kunena team has announce the arrival of Kunena 6.3.0 [K 6.3.0] in stable which is now available for download as a native Joomla extension for J! 4.4.x/5.0.x/5.1.x. This version addresses most of the issues that were discovered in K 6.2 and issues discovered during the last development stages of K 6.3
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If there are a lot of users subscribed to a particular topic or category, each of these users gets a notice of a new topic (assuming unmoderated). Kunena processes these emails once the user post their topic. With a lot of subscribers this suspends the users session for quite some time while Kunena sends the emails.
Is there a way to queue these and process them in the background? How have others handled this problem?
rich wrote: Try a larger value at the option "Users > Subscriptions > E-mail to Multiple Recipients". Maybe it helps.
Thanks Rich, that definitely seems to help. As I am using an external smtp relay service (Mandrill), and I had this value as zero, I think Kunena (through Joomla) was sending each email as a separate smtp session and this was taking forever. I changed the value to 50 and this really made it faster. We have at most 250 subscriptions so 5 smtp sessions versus 250 is a big difference.
I just discovered this setting, and it made our forum much more responsive. We were actually getting internal server errors because it was taking kunena so long to process the notifications.
