Setting up Listmail Cron Jobs on iPower

[thoer]

I have I power as a web host and I am having quite a time seting up my Cron Jobs for dailymail.  I would also like to set up bounce.cgi but need to get daily\mail working first. I have Ver 1.8 installed and everything is working correctly except dailymail.  Please Help!

[DW]

Hi thoer!

Are you sure cron jobs are supported by your host?  Do you see the feature in your web hosting control panel (where you set up email accounts and other aspects of your hosting).

If cron jobs are supported but your cron job still isn't runing, there could be a problem with the /usr/bin/wget utility ListMail uses.  Here are two alternative command-lines you might try:

The 2 alternatives are "fetch" and "curl". With example commandlines as follows:

(example for 11:57pm)

57 23 * * * /usr/bin/fetch -o /dev/null -T 0 http://www.site.com/ListMail/dailymail.php?pw=YOURPASS 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null

57 23 * * * curl -o /dev/null http://site.com/ListMail/dailymail.php?pw=YOURPASS 2> /dev/null

For your testing, set the timing to * * * * * so that the cron task runs every minute.  Enable "send report to admin when dailymail runs" on the ListMail Config page.  When it's set up correctly, you should receive a dailymail report every minute, after-which you can modify the cron task to have the correct once-per-day timing.

Regards

[buzz]

Dean,
I saw that post with the alternatives for the cronjob (and also setting it to run every minute while testing) and wanted you to know it solved my problem. I had used the standard wget command previously but when I changed to HostGator and upgraded to v 1.8, the cron wouldn't run with that command. The third try worked when I used the example from this forum post of yours:

curl -o /dev/null http://site.com/ListMail/dailymail.php?pw=YOURPASS 2> /dev/null

Thanks,
charles

[DW]

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