Cron Job at Thirdsphere

[larryjbaker]

Hello Members,

Out of frustration in trying to set up a Cron job to work at the host, ThirdSphere, I have setup a scheduled task to run from my desktop.  Surely, there is someone else here using ThirdSphere who would be able to avoid tell me how to set this up.  

Additionally, when my scheduled tasks run from my desk top, there is not any clue that there has been anything sent, although there has been as expected.  I have looked in the Listmail "Sent mail", but it shows nothing is being sent.  However, the mail is being sent to my e-mail account during my testing.  

Thank-you,

Larry Baker

[DW]

Your host should be able to help with this.  It's possible that the wget program used by the task is not available.  You might try an alternative, such as mentioned in this post.

Messages will only show up under Sent Messages if they are sent with the Scheduler or the Send Email button.  Followups do not appear because each user could be sent a different one on a given day.

I remember hearing (a couple years ago..) that 3rd Sphere is not overly ListMail-friendly.  You may want to contact them about the possibility of limits on email and the ability to run the ListMail cron task.

Regards

[larryjbaker]

For those members who are being hosted by ThirdSphere and may have had problems setting up their Cron job for Listmail, the following should work.  

For domains:

/usr/bin/curl -o /dev/null http://domain.com/mail/dailymail.php?pw=dailymail password 1> /dev/null 2>/dev/null

Change the dailymail password to the password that you used in your configuration section of Listmail.  

The domain name will be the primary domain you are using,
entered without the www prefix.  

Listmail (mail) will be residing on the main domain.  


For sub domains:

/usr/bin/curl -o /dev/null http://subdomain.domain.com/mail/dailymail.php?pw=dailymail password 1> /dev/null 2>/dev/null

If you using sub domains under your main domain name, enter the sub domain first without the www prefix (see above) followed by your main domain.  

Listmail (mail) will be residing on the sub domain.  

I realize that most of you probably do not have any problems with setting up your Cron jobs, but being new at this it took me awhile to get this to work.  Before I had this worked out, I ended up setting this up to run from my desktop using (WGET) and a scheduled job.  If the above can spare somebody else a little bit of trouble of setting this up on the server at ThirdSphere, then I've accomplished my goals.  

Thank you,
Larry Baker

[DW]

Glad you were able to get it sorted with the alternative, Larry.

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

Regards