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check:

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/CiviMail+Installation#CiviMailInstallation-SettingUptheCronJob

dont know what the cron equivalent is on windows, but i suspect there are equivalent programs

lobo

I have read the scheduled task is essentially cron for windows. I tried creating a scheduled task to run  http://<site>/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/queue&reset=1 but then the task wasnt able to complete on its own because it wasnt logged in. Do i need to create a script to run civimail.cronjob.php and put that in scheduled tasks? Im new to civicrm but pretty familiar with Drupal. The only difference is that the other instances i have of drupal are on linus and this one is on windows, so im kinda clueless. Any help is appreciated.

might want to hire someone from: http://civicrm.org/professional/

lobo

Here is what I have done. It seems to work properly

1. download wget for windows (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm) and load it somewhere on your system. In my case, I placed it in c:\tools
2. Create a "post-data" file containing my authentication data. I called my civi.txt with only the following contents:

key=mysitekey&name=mylogonname&pass=mypassword

3. Create a batch file for this process. My contains the following:

c:\tools\wget -c -o civimail.log --post-file civi.txt http://mydrupalsite.com/sites/all/modules/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php
del c:\batch\civimail.cronjob.php

4. Place the 2 files (civi.txt and civimail.batch) anywhere in your system. You can test by running the batch file and checking for errors. You may want to remove the del c:\batch\civimail.cronjob.php line until you get it working as this file will contain any authentication errors. I added the del line just to keep my folder clean.

5. Set up a task using windows task scheduler that runs the batch file. (I will not detail how to do that here.)