Author Topic: Separate Cron Runs/Manual CiviCRM Send button? (Read 1821 times)

rflemin · May 04, 2010, 07:31:48 am

I just got CiviMail set up and I love it, BUT.... I can only Submit the mailing for actual transmission at the next Cron run. I've got cron set to run every eight hours (to update an RSS feed) and I don't want to burden my server with frequent cron jobs. But I want my mailings to go out NOW, if not yesterday. I can think of two ways around this:
1) Is it possible to have separate cron jobs? (I suspect not)[/li][/list]
2) I know I can force a mailing by going to "http://www.mysite.org/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/queue&reset=1", which I have stored as a Firefox bookmark. Would it be possible (or is it there and I don't see it) to have a button for "Send Now" which is just a hyperlink to "http://www.mysite.org/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/queue&reset=1"

If not, it's not all that burdensome to hit the bookmark - I could even put it in the Bookmark Toolbar - but maybe in the next CiviMail upgrade?

Kiran Jagtap · May 04, 2010, 07:41:49 am

IMO there are only two ways, to process scheduled mailings -

1. Wait for cron to process as per time/schedule of cron run.
2. Force to process scheduled mailing w/ 'q=civicrm/mailing/queue&reset=1'

kiran

rflemin · May 24, 2010, 01:17:32 pm

Thanks for the response. Maybe I will change the timing on my Cron file. I'm not asking it to do much, so doing it more often should not be a burden on the server.

BE55Roberts · June 06, 2010, 03:49:38 am

You could always use your server operating system to invoke another cron job. For example, under Linux:

crontab -l

Shows you the jobs in the Linux scheduler.

crontab -e

Allows you to edit the schedule, but be careful about doing this. A good explanation for how this works can be found at:
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/forums/showthread.php/18761-Crontab-Scheduling-tasks.

So you can have a separate cron task for your emails.

Hershel · June 06, 2010, 05:16:23 am

Quote from: rflemin on May 24, 2010, 01:17:32 pm

Thanks for the response. Maybe I will change the timing on my Cron file. I'm not asking it to do much, so doing it more often should not be a burden on the server.

It's doing very little, relatively speaking, and I would think that it's not a burden in the least. For a normal server anyhow.

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Author Topic: Separate Cron Runs/Manual CiviCRM Send button? (Read 1821 times)

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rflemin

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