Author Topic: Follow Ups Stopped Going Out Altogether (Read 1498 times)

alice · « **on:** March 14, 2005, 10:53:22 pm »

Hi there,

I searched the previous posts and can't seem to find anyone with the precise problem I have. I had all my follow ups on several lists set up and they were working fine. Now, NONE of the follow ups go out.

The only emails that go out are the welcome email and any broadcasts that I do. No follow ups are working.

Alice

DW · « **Reply #1 on:** March 15, 2005, 01:15:03 am »

The symptoms you describe, where it works and then does not, indicate a change at your host. Perhaps the program /usr/bin/wget, used by the daily task, is no longer available. It's also possible something happened to your cron task. Do you know where it's set up?

Regards

alice · « **Reply #2 on:** March 18, 2005, 12:00:30 am »

Yowsers, no. I don't even know what that means. :oops: Should I ask my host anything in particular? I did just have some very odd things go wrong on my server and there have been other problems...this could be part of it.

Thanks so much for your help. I just noticed I didn't sign myself up for a notification of reply on this post. Otherwise, I would have been here sooner. I really appreciate your speedy response.

I'm signed up for a notification now. I'll be back!

thanks again,
Alice

DW · « **Reply #3 on:** March 18, 2005, 05:52:23 pm »

Cron is a scheduling program for Linux servers. You might see "cron" or "cron jobs" in your web hosting Control Panel.

A ListMail cron task looks something like this all on one line. It includes timing for 12:05am (server time) each day:

05 0 * * * /usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null -T 0 http://yoursite.com/mail/dailymail.php?pw=YourDailyMailPass 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null

Regards