Author Topic: ISP won't Allow CRON jobs (Read 1957 times)

Graham · « **on:** November 02, 2005, 02:51:03 am »

HI

I have been told by my ISP (Zen Internet) that they will not allow CRON jobs because of security issues and that many other ISP's don't allow this either. I don't really want the hastle of moving ISP's so is there another way to use the schedual emials feature?

Thanks

DW · « **Reply #1 on:** November 02, 2005, 04:47:25 am »

Greetings!

If you have a dedicated internet connection at home, you might run your own scheduled task.

Here's the help page:
http://listmailpro.com/help/dailymail_local.html

Please let me know if I can be of further assistance!

Regards

Graham · « **Reply #2 on:** November 03, 2005, 01:51:45 am »

Hello.

Thank You. Sorry i didn'd se the section in the help file before.

I have done as insturcted but when i run the job i get an MS box asking which application to use to open dailymail.job.

Any ideas?

Thanks

DW · « **Reply #3 on:** November 03, 2005, 02:00:32 am »

Are you sure you have properly selected wget.exe at the correct location for the scheduled task?

Regards

Graham · « **Reply #4 on:** November 03, 2005, 02:23:42 am »

HI

Sorry it was because i was trying to run the sched task job from DOS.

How can i chek this is working now then?

Thanks

DW · « **Reply #5 on:** November 03, 2005, 06:04:20 am »

From DOS you should be able to run the command as follows and as entered in your scheduled task.

c:\winnt\wget.exe -T 0 -q -O c:\mycron.txt http://www.yoursite.com/mail/dailymail.php?pw=YourDailyPass

If you don't receive an error message, check the c:\mycron.txt file to see if there's anything wrong there. If not, and if the scheduled task is set up correctly as per the help, it should be working ok.

Regards

Graham · « **Reply #6 on:** November 03, 2005, 06:06:42 am »

HI

Nothing in the txt file so i guess it's OK.

Thanks for all your help.

Now for the live test.

Graham · « **Reply #7 on:** November 04, 2005, 02:24:35 am »

Hello Again

The sched Task ran this morning and there are no errors in the TXT file but the mail sched. to be sent is still there waiting to be sent?

Is there something else i need to check?

Thanks

Graham · « **Reply #8 on:** November 04, 2005, 02:50:48 am »

HI

All sorted thanks. My listmail path was listmail and not mail.

Thanks for your help