# \--exclude-campaign-id for mautic:campaigns:trigger

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/exclude-campaign-id-for-mautictrigger/32373>\
**Category:** Ideas and Feature Requests\
**Created:** [June 13, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/exclude-campaign-id-for-mautictrigger/32373 "2024-06-13T18:22:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![ipso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a183cd/32.png) [@ipso](https://forum.mautic.org/u/ipso)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/exclude-campaign-id-for-mautictrigger/32373/1 "2024-06-13T18:22:06Z")

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Add “–exclude-campaign-id” argument (ideally that can accept multiple IDs) to mautic:campaigns:trigger for better batch/throttle control when sending emails.

We have several campaigns, some of which require immediate email sending (e.g., a double opt-in mailing list campaign), and others that send bulk emails, which we want to throttle to just a few per day.

Mautic has a feature to limit the entire system to only X emails per day, but if we do that, it could delay double-opt-in emails from being sent for an entire day if the limit is reached. Using “mautic:campaigns:trigger --campign-limit=X” has a similar problem, it applies to all campaigns without fine grained control. We could add a separate CRON command for every single campaign, but that is extremely cumbersome to manage.

If we could simply exclude individual campaigns instead, then we can actually have fine-grained control that is easy to manage, for example:

#Default campaign trigger for all campaigns, no limits and triggers every few minutes, excludes large campaigns:  
php /var/www/html/mautic/bin/console mautic:campaigns:trigger --exclude-campaign-id=

#Large campaigns, run every hour/day, limit to just X per hour to better spread out the emails, without affecting other campaigns that can’t be throttled.  
php /var/www/html/mautic/bin/console mautic:campaigns:trigger --campaign-id= --campaign-limit=100

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**Author:** ![EJL](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/ejl/32/12155_2.png) [@EJL](https://forum.mautic.org/u/EJL)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2024, 2:20am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/exclude-campaign-id-for-mautictrigger/32373/2 "2024-07-12T02:20:58Z")

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why not use **–batch-limit nnn --campaign-id n**?