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I have a client who needs an install of the CiviCRM Standalone, which is setup and running. He will be doing mass mailings, so I thought it was be nice to have a cron job setup to check for new mails. The documentation (http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/CiviMail+Installation#CiviMailInstallation-SettingUptheCronJob) seems to indicate that I can use the civimail.cronjob.php with a valid un/pw combo - but only from a drupal/joomla user with access to the CRM.

Since this is a standalone install, how do I get around this?

Thanks.
Lew

The alternative, in recent versions of CiviCRM, is that you can use your OpenID and the API Key as the username and password, respectively. You'd set the api_key field manually in the civicrm_contact table in the database (for the contact record whose OpenID you want to use for this). Set it to a secure password-like value.

So, for example, if my OpenID is http://foo.myopenid.com/ and the api_key value is "gabbagabbaH3y" then you would use "http://foo.myopenid.com/" is the username (make sure it's exactly the same as the value in civicrm_openid for that contact record) and "gabbagabbaH3y" as the password.

This is a bit cumbersome right now, we realize. Here's the ticket tracking the implementation of a better way (but it's not done yet--patches welcome!): http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-5131