Bug: Email send queue plays "catch-up" if send time is set to point in the past.

[ad0nis]

If you are configuring a campaign, and use the delay functionality, and the time isn’t sent to a point in the future, it will do math from the point where it should have started to now, and play catch-up. Sent 90 emails immediately instead of doing 30 every 2 minutes.

[Raikia]

Is this really a bug? I feel like this is expected behavior...? Why/how did you set the "start time" to a time in the past? The UI should default to basically "now" and only show time/dates in the future. I suppose if you sit on that Create Campaign page for a couple minutes, that could cause this from happening....but I'm interested in hearing what you came across.

I suppose I can force it to use "now" time if the time is in the past. Thoughts? I'd like more information about your specific case though

[ad0nis]

You are correct on your assumption of me sitting on the Create Campaign button for multiple minutes. Just double and triple-checking everything to make sure there are no mistakes in the campaign. I think your proposed solution sounds ideal.