# smtp background job

**URL:** <https://discuss.write.as/t/smtp-background-job/19866>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [October 23, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/smtp-background-job/19866 "2025-10-23T13:32:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![michael1maass](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/michael1maass/32/5489_2.png) [@michael1maass](https://discuss.write.as/u/michael1maass)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/smtp-background-job/19866/1 "2025-10-23T13:32:43Z")

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Hi,

watching the log, I see writefreely contacting the Smtp server at least each minute. Is there a way to set the timeperiod between attempts? (it seems to be successfull, because it ends with “Done”

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**Author:** ![matt](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/matt/32/2760_2.png) [@matt](https://discuss.write.as/u/matt)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 1:50pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/smtp-background-job/19866/2 "2025-10-23T13:50:54Z")

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How would you like to change the period between when this job runs, i.e. more or less frequently? Right now, there’s no way to customize this without modifying WriteFreely itself and changing the interval there.

However, note that this job isn’t actually contacting the SMTP server. This job only runs a query on the database to see if any posts need to be emailed out. If so (and only in that case), it will contact the mail server and send out the email.

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**Author:** ![michael1maass](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/michael1maass/32/5489_2.png) [@michael1maass](https://discuss.write.as/u/michael1maass)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 1:55pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/smtp-background-job/19866/3 "2025-10-23T13:55:49Z")

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thank you for clarifying that. In that case I am agnostic to the frequency of polls. I was just afraid to get into a fight with my Postmaster because my Surface seemed to knock up the mailserver and get thrown out.

Michael

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**Author:** ![michael1maass](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/michael1maass/32/5489_2.png) [@michael1maass](https://discuss.write.as/u/michael1maass)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 1:59pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/smtp-background-job/19866/4 "2025-10-23T13:59:26Z")

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disregard my last, cx my next 😉

I would have wanted to extend the Pause between lookups. But since the situation is not as I assumed, you might as well disregard …. see above…

Michael