Does sending emails in smaller batches improve deliverability?

[Anonymous]

Hi Bentacular,

Did you ever check your log/results file? I just set it up for a smartlist of 20 emails and in steps of 10%. The first 2 hours it went okay.Then it started repeating sending the email to the same people in the second sending. Fortunately I tested it on a sample size for 20 people so I only annoyed 2 people but for whatever reason, it didn't work for me.

Any insights why it started sending emails to people already sent to?

TIA

Patrick

[Anonymous]

It has never happened to me before. In the random sample field did you place a "%"? I just input a number (i.e. 10% = 10, 20% = 20). I always make sure that all the numbers in the random sample equal to 100.
 Try the email route and see if it does the same thing.

[Anonymous]

Would the following flow work so that you do not send the email to the same person multiple times as Patrick had indicated?

If random sample is 25  send [01 EMAIL]. Default Choice: do nothing
wait one hour
If was sent email is [01 EMAIL] - Do nothing
If random sample is 25  send [01 EMAIL]. Default Choice: do nothing
wait one hour
If was sent email is [01 EMAIL] - Do nothing
If random sample is 25  send [01 EMAIL]. Default Choice: do nothing
wait one hour
If was sent email is [01 EMAIL] - Do nothing
If random sample is 25  send [01 EMAIL]. Default Choice: do nothing