Title: Some emails send, some fail
Last modified: April 13, 2021

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# Some emails send, some fail

 *  Resolved [timb111](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timb111/)
 * (@timb111)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-emails-send-some-fail/)
 * EME is sending some booking emails but a half are failing. When I go to “Email
   Management” > “Search sent emails” it shows that approximately 50% of emails 
   are sent and 50% failed. The test emails seem to working fine.
 * The error for the failed messages is the same “There were some problems while
   sending mail”. Is it possible to see a detailed error message so I can find where
   the problem is?
 * In Settings > Mail, the Mail Sending Method is “WordPress Mail (default)”. And
   I’m using the latest version 2.1.116.

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 *  Plugin Author [Franky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liedekef/)
 * (@liedekef)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-emails-send-some-fail/#post-14310990)
 * The wp_mail function from WordPress returns only true or false, so I can’t give
   a specific reason there.
    However WordPress provides a hook so you can debug 
   wp_mail errors, see [https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_mail_failed/](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_mail_failed/)
   If you want a specific reason per mail, you should switch to smtp or “php mail”
   as sending method in EME.
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by [Franky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liedekef/).
 *  Thread Starter [timb111](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timb111/)
 * (@timb111)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-emails-send-some-fail/#post-14313233)
 * Thanks, I’m looking into these.
 * Does EME try to send out emails immediately or does it throttle them? And if 
   they fail the first time then does it retry automatically?
 *  Plugin Author [Franky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liedekef/)
 * (@liedekef)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-emails-send-some-fail/#post-14313261)
 * If you activate the mail queuing, then EME can (and will) throttle them. To activate
   the queue option, see EME settings, tab “mail”. To then configure the throttling,
   see “Scheduled actions” (where there’s also a hint on how to configure cron for
   wp better).
 *  Thread Starter [timb111](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timb111/)
 * (@timb111)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-emails-send-some-fail/#post-14316545)
 * Ok thanks Franky. I prefer to not throttle as my events are low volume and people
   expect to receive email confirmations almost immediately.
 *  Plugin Author [Franky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/liedekef/)
 * (@liedekef)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-emails-send-some-fail/#post-14316569)
 * Then you don’t need to activate the queue, but be aware that EME will not log
   mail issues then. Of course you could activate the queue and send e.g. 10 mails
   every 5 minutes too …
 *  Thread Starter [timb111](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timb111/)
 * (@timb111)
 * [5 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-emails-send-some-fail/#post-14320131)
 * That’s a good idea, as I think it is best to keep a log.

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