Still having problems sending sequencal emails

[charles2]

I can send mail manually using daily mail.

but it does not send it own its own.  I sent up sequence...of 10 emails
and I wrote them in list mail.

The double opt in works just fine.....the sequence doesn't work at all for me.

I used the test method and i received an email stating that it was set up successfully.

I must not be doing something right.  

Here's the full url to list mail files:
http://www.<edit>.com/mail/

what I'm I doing wrong.

Charles Raines

[DW]

Charles,

You need to set up a scheduled task to run dailymail each day.

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

Regards!

[charles2]

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


right nothing happening...

I'll change the password after I get this running right.

[DW]

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

The above is an example for running a daily scheduled task at midnight using the Linux 'cron' scheduler.  This needs to be set up either in your web hosting control panel or, if you can't do it there, with your web host's help.  I recommend you contact your host about setting up a scheduled task as quoted above.  They should also be able to verify if the /usr/bin/wget system program used by the task is available and, if not, set up your task with an alternative such as curl, fetch, or lynx.

Regards

[charles2]

My ISP setup Listmail to work every night at midnight...and they did not change the cron string that I put in the cron sheduler.

I dont know what they did....they just emailed me and said they had to set it up.....so they did.

The mail runs at midnight but it advances all followups by one day.

 Do you have any suggestions to what I should tell the ISP to correct
this???

Another thing I just noticed is....the users that were not scheduled to receive a followup message lost a day....instead of 3(delay) it is now 2 (delay).....not sure whats going on there.

Charles Raines

If I had to... can I manually advance the day by one without messing anything up in the follow up sequence.  Right now my followups are not what I had intended

 If I dont get this corrected I will keep losing a day in my followup sequence.

[DW]

Charles,

I'm a little confused as to what the problem is.  In your initial post, you stated:

I can send mail manually using daily mail.

but it does not send it own its own. I sent up sequence...of 10 emails
and I wrote them in list mail.

The double opt in works just fine.....the sequence doesn't work at all for me.

Therefore, I assumed your followup messages were not automatically going out.  From the sounds of what you're saying now, they are:

The mail runs at midnight but it advances all followups by one day.

This is the normal operation of the dailymail script.  Followup messages go out each day, if necessary, to each of your subscribers to your list(s with followups).

Another thing I just noticed is....the users that were not scheduled to receive a followup message lost a day....instead of 3(delay) it is now 2 (delay).....not sure whats going on there.

This is normal, too.  When using delays between followup messages the Delay value will decrease by 1 each day until it reaches 0, at which time they will receive the current (seq #) followup and obtain the new seq # and delay, if any, for the next followup.

If I had to... can I manually advance the day by one without messing anything up in the follow up sequence. Right now my followups are not what I had intended

Yes.  When you run Dailymail manually from within ListMail it advances your users one day, as per the warning.

I am still a little unclear as to what the trouble is considering what you report seems to be normal operation of a correctly scheduled dailymail.  Do you want to MOVE certain users from one followup to the next?  I can help with this.

Regards

[charles2]

Thanks for the reply...after reading your post (reply) I relized that the sequence is working correctly.....I guess once the days count down to the follow-up...the next one will be sent out and the count down will begin again and so on..

thanks for the help!

This is the first time I have set up a follow-up....

[DW]

That's right - I'm glad I was able to set you straight on that.  Perhaps I should be more descriptive in the help files.

Please let me know if you have any more troubles!

Regards