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ListMailPRO Email Marketing Software Forums => General Help & How-To => Topic started by: bowmah on August 29, 2007, 03:33:56 pm

Title: Schedule a blast at certain time
Post by: bowmah on August 29, 2007, 03:33:56 pm

I noticed that a scheduled email does not have a time option. How do we dictate what time the send begins?

Better yet, is there an option to choose time on the email scheduler page?

Title: Schedule a blast at certain time
Post by: DW on August 29, 2007, 07:26:49 pm

More diverse timing has been suggested a few times and is under consideration for a future update.

Followups and scheduled messages are currently sent once per day at the time configured for the dailymail cron task.

Regards

Title: Schedule a blast at certain time
Post by: bowmah on August 29, 2007, 10:14:18 pm

Thanks for the reply Dean.

So currently, when we schedule a blast, what time will the server send it out. Is it possible to edit some settings so that we can control the start time on the set date?

Title: Schedule a blast at certain time
Post by: DW on August 30, 2007, 12:45:16 am

Yes, you can set the exact hour and minute you would like it run each day. Here's a quick primer on Crontab (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crontab)

The ListMail documentation (http://www.listmailpro.com/help/dailymail_cron.html) assumes you are on a Linux server.  Timing for, say, 8:15am (server time zone) would be

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15 8 * * *The method to enter timing and a command can vary, depending on your web host's control panel software.

Regards

Title: Schedule a blast at certain time
Post by: bowmah on August 30, 2007, 09:31:55 am

Thanks very much Dean. Got it now!