# Propose to send digests equally in time, not all at once

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/propose-to-send-digests-equally-in-time-not-all-at-once/56543
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** activity-summary
**Created:** [January 29, 2017, 11:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/propose-to-send-digests-equally-in-time-not-all-at-once/56543 "2017-01-29T11:28:17Z")
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### Author: ![dmitry\_fedyuk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dmitry_fedyuk/32/293153_2.png) [@dmitry\_fedyuk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dmitry_fedyuk)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2017, 11:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/propose-to-send-digests-equally-in-time-not-all-at-once/56543/1 "2017-01-29T11:28:17Z")

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In my case, Discourse sends several hundred digest at once:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/d/d/dd7e47928c10db34623fe28b02e28bc013a618ec.png)

It leads to a significant rejection rate:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/a/aafa2625a42a394c238a474f32ac4c533bc441b8.png)

It would be better if Discourse will send digests equally in time.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2017, 12:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/propose-to-send-digests-equally-in-time-not-all-at-once/56543/2 "2017-01-29T12:11:13Z")

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I think you are getting marked as spam, not because of how fast mail is being sent, but because people don’t like the content of the mail. Check yourself, using the URL provided in the screenshot:

`http://www.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml?184.173.153.207`

> Problem Entries, (listings will cause email problems.)  
> 33 “Spam” entries [10:33:37 27 Jan 2017 GMT+00].   
> 184.173.153.207 - 33 entries [10:33:37 27 Jan 2017 GMT+00].
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> 10 “Spamvertised” entries [20:21:03 11 Jan 2017 GMT+00].   
> 184.173.153.207 - 10 entries [20:21:03 11 Jan 2017 GMT+00].

See also

`https://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=blacklist:184.173.153.207`&run=problempage`

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/c/1/c1af443e02d7e6034e6f9c3da4de19c528a21e19.png)

This is a mailgun IP – **unless you pay for a dedicated IP you _will_ suffer due to poisonous neighbors sending actual spam from the same IP address!** I struggled with this for weeks and tried to manually de-list the IP with each spam list over and over and it kept getting re-listed. Once I paid for a dedicated MailGun IP I never had a _single_ bounce due to spam. 100% true story. Night and day difference.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2017, 12:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/propose-to-send-digests-equally-in-time-not-all-at-once/56543/3 "2017-01-29T12:12:39Z")

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That said, I support adding ±30 minutes of “jitter” to the individual digests so it doesn’t send all at once. But I don’t think that’s your problem.

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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2017, 6:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/propose-to-send-digests-equally-in-time-not-all-at-once/56543/4 "2017-01-29T18:08:12Z")

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You might be able to file a ticket with Mailgun and ask them to move you to a better IP.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2017, 3:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/propose-to-send-digests-equally-in-time-not-all-at-once/56543/5 "2017-01-30T15:46:53Z")

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One giant advantage of jitter is that if you happen to mistakenly send spam out there in the digest (something I saw today) there is a higher chance people can get on top of it prior to it being blasted to the rest of the community.