Set up manual cron job

  • Resolved lalune

    (@lalune)


    7 years, 6 months ago

    I use cron on the command line, but it’s been a while. Using my provider’s interface to manage cron only gives me “daily, weekly, yearly” options to run the job. I’m having difficulty understanding the relation of cron to sending out my emails. I take it that if I send the emails “immediately”, it would send all 1200 in one shot? But if I want to throttle the sending of the emails to 50 at a time, with 5 minute intervals, then I use cron? But with my host’s interface only offering daily/weekly/monthly, I’ll have to set it up manually…or am I misunderstanding something?

    I don’t understand how the plugin is working with cron and what will happen. I simply want to execute a controlled send of one email to all the users and sure don’t want cron to be doing that job more than once resulting in all the subscribers getting that email more than once.

    TIA

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  • Thread Starter lalune

    (@lalune)

    To clarify what I want, I want to send out the 1200 emails, starting the job “now”, but in increments of 50, about 5 min apart until that email has been sent to all 1200 people, then that’s it, it stops. I have tried setting crontab to trigger the URL a few minutes from “now” by changing the run times, but nothing happens. My queued message sits and my test group receives nothing (my actual domain is in the trigger URL).

    10 16 * * * https://www.mysite.com/?es=cron&guid=redftz-bvizsn-hdvbre-nmgphj-mspwjo

    @lalune

    Just go through Scheduling Cron Emails to schedule all your mails properly and easily.

    If you are using Cpanel please go through scheduling mails using Cpanel & if you are using Parallels Plesk please go through Scheduling mails in Parallels Plesk

    Please let me know which works for you.

    Thread Starter lalune

    (@lalune)

    The problem is, I don’t want to schedule them. I want to send out immediately, but not in one fell swoop. I need to make sure it’s being throttled or we’ll have a problem with the provider. I don’t use Cpanel or Plesk and cannot without it overwriting all my old crontab entries (since that’s how I had always used cron), I log in with a shell and edit crontab on the command line. I’ve edited crontab to send within a few minutes of “now” and it’s not triggering for some reason. That is my new problem.

    Plugin Author Icegram

    (@icegram)

    @lalune,

    If you want to send out emails immediately then use SMTP plugin (not cron method) to send email immediately. That way you don’t have to use cron method and worry about scheduling the emails.

    There are many free plugins available for SMTP (we recommend Easy WP SMTP) and you can use any of them.

    Try it and let me know if it works for you.

    Thread Starter lalune

    (@lalune)

    Thank you. My question is, if I use SMTP, are the emails throttled or do they get sent out all at once? I saw mention of it being regulated if using cron, but no mention of this if using SMTP. I don’t want to throw up red flags and get in trouble for dumping out 1500 emails instantly.

    Plugin Author Icegram

    (@icegram)

    @lalune,

    Would like to update you that when sending email via SMTP service, the service will handle the sending of the emails and it will send according to the batches that service has defined. Email Subscribers will just send out all details to SMTP service and then the service will handle it.

    So your emails should not throttled when sending via SMTP service.

    Thread Starter lalune

    (@lalune)

    Ok, thanks for that information, it’s important to know. That is a problem because if I use SMTP and try to send 2500 emails at once, I will get in trouble with my hosting provider and could lose my accounts for all the domains I host. I was hoping that Email Subscribers would regulate the sending of those emails (or the sending of that info to SMTP service) so that it wasn’t such a large amount going out at once which will make my provider notice and could also put me in violation of their terms because of resource hogging. Thanks.

    Plugin Author Icegram

    (@icegram)

    @lalune

    We hope Email Subscribers is working well for you now.

    If you like our plugin, please consider rating us 5-star fro here.

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