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General Help & How-To / Re: Cron Job

« Last post by Jon Watkins on November 03, 2016, 03:55:22 am »

Can!t seem to find an edit post feature. I wanted to add that I can run the dailymail Manually and it sends out the report just fine.

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General Help & How-To / Cron Job

« Last post by Jon Watkins on November 02, 2016, 02:37:22 pm »

Ok I am pulling my hair out here. The daily mail will NOT run. Contacted my host and the say wget is ok. I have looked at solutions using fetch and so forth and it will just not run. Can someone look at this code and see what I may have messed up? My host won't offer any advice on the coding. Here is what I have minus the password obviously.

0 0 * * * /usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null -T 0 http://online-ministries.org/news-alerts/dailymail.php?pw=Password 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null

I have set the chromod to 755 on everything. All runs well sending mails. I can do the dailymail and it runs fine and sends the email to me. Just wont run automatically. What is this thick brain not getting?

Jon

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Customization, Integration / Re: Posting data directly to domail.php? Or sending from my own PHP file?

« Last post by scottscomp on November 01, 2016, 03:48:00 pm »

Project completed.

I discovered mailgun.com.  We're using their Mailing List feature, so the email list is stored there and when our alert software sends an email to one primary email address, it gets automatically redistributed to the whole list.   It's perfect for us. 

-Scott

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Customization, Integration / Posting data directly to domail.php? Or sending from my own PHP file?

« Last post by scottscomp on October 28, 2016, 01:19:07 pm »

My situation: I am starting a small "alert" service.  I have custom software that generates the alerts.  It can send an HTTP GET or POST request that contains the details of the alert.

So I created a mini PHP script that receives the POST request and generates a mail() to myself, and it works.

The next step is to update the script, and do one of 2 options:

     1) Create my own mailing script that queries the ListMailPro user list and sends the emails  (booo, not fun?)

     2) Tweak a copy of domail.php so that I'm effectively POSTing the alert directly from my software to ListMailPro to send the email   (yay! fun!)

The added benefit of #2 is it would automatically keep a history of all the alerts sent in the database.

Any suggestions?  I do have a small budget for this project so I'm open to hiring help.

-Scott

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General Help & How-To / Re: Forward incoming email to mailing list

« Last post by scottscomp on October 28, 2016, 12:40:15 pm »

This topic can be considered closed because our situation has changed.  I figured how to adjust our software so it sends an HTTP request (either GET or POST) instead of an email, so now we can post the data directly to a PHP instead of instead of piping an email to it.

So now I'm going to make a new post in the Integrations section to see if someone can help me figure out how to do the rest of it. 

-Scott

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General Help & How-To / Re: Forward incoming email to mailing list

« Last post by scottscomp on October 23, 2016, 11:42:20 am »

I understand forwarding in cPanel but the email list needs to get pulled from a mysql database (such as a list in ListMailPro).   We currently have about 75 users that would need to get the emails.  It would be too cumbersome to manage that via cPanel.

I'm not sure why the host wouldn't allow it... it would just use mail() or SMTP like any other mailing script.

I'll try to get an example of one of the alerts and then I'll contact you to see if it's something you can do or not.

-Scott

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General Help & How-To / Re: Forward incoming email to mailing list

« Last post by BGSWebDesign on October 23, 2016, 11:26:32 am »

Scott,

It's easier if you just setup forwarding on the email address directly on the server... however you'll have to remove all those forwards when you're done.  There's a way to write a shell script (Linux/Unix) to do that, instead of trying to write that auto-forward PHP script you speak of.  Writing that auto-forward script is frowned on by most hosting providers, and most do not even allow it any more, or if they do, it's not reliable.

The forwards I speak of can be done from cPanel, just click on Forward, and select the FROM, and enter the TO address, the email does not look like a forward (I don't believe), it's just a straight copy of the original email to the TO address.

I hope that helps... if you wish further assistance, I would be happy to work with you on this, for my standard consulting fees, contact me at the page listed below (in my signature).

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General Help & How-To / Re: Forward incoming email to mailing list

« Last post by scottscomp on September 28, 2016, 08:21:58 am »

Thanks for the reply Brett, unfortunately, I didn't explain the situation well enough.

Basically what I want to do is automatically "forward" an incoming email to a list.

So right now I receive an email alert.  But I want 20 people to get that email alert, not just me.  So I load up those 20 email addresses in Listmail, have the email alert piped to a PHP script, and let the script "forward" that email to that list of 20 people in Listmail. (at least this is my idea...but I'm open to other suggestions)

We wouldn't have to use Listmail for it; we also have an account at constantcontact and they have an API that would work too (but I lack the skills to program it).

And I don't want the email to look like it was forwarded; I want it to look like it came from my email software (like Listmail).  So the PHP script would parse it, just grab the body content and subject line, and then re-send the email to the list using the same subject line and body content.

Any ideas?

-Scott

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General Help & How-To / Re: Forward incoming email to mailing list

« Last post by BGSWebDesign on September 27, 2016, 07:08:14 pm »

Hi Scott,

Sure that's possible.  I'm still not sure exactly what you are wanting to do though, can you explain more?  You currently have a list stored in ListMail, and also on another server?  So, when the alert comes from the other server that server is 'down', you want to then start sending the email from ListMail?  Because that's the only way I see that working, you would have to maintain the list in both ListMailPRO, perhaps both are ListMailPRO installations, but either way, you would have to maintain the list on 2 servers, to make sure that is happening properly...

Even then, there are better ways to handle that.  I maintain my lists in several email software applications (and providers) so if a server goes down, I just send from the other email provider, or other software application, instead of trying to maintain a duplicate list in LMP across 2 servers.

One problem with handling it all with LMP, is that LMP is not as accurate in removing bounces correctly, and it's better to maintain the correct list in another software application, such as Sendy (or SparkPost), etc... then duplicate the list(s) back to LMP on another server.

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Server Optimization, Tweaks / Re: 1and1.com

« Last post by BGSWebDesign on September 25, 2016, 05:30:01 pm »

Steve,

You can request your current host to have the IP address removed from the blacklist, and to move your server IP to a different address.
Most blacklisted IP's can also be petitioned through the blacklister to be removed from the list, even by someone that is not the host, or you
can ask the host to petition that it be removed.

Also, you can keep track and monitor that best with MX Toolbox at:
http://mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx

There are only a handful of 'good hosts' left that can handle large email sends, it's not an easy task these days...

Good luck!