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hi,
i need bit of your help. i have set the cronjobs for schedule reminders and reports in the crontabs. these seems fine but not working. i am not getting any email from it. although i have some questions which ll help me and other is future too.

Well my linux server is not actual server. it is virtual server on windows platform. all my actual emails are sending from the smtp server installed on windows server. There is no smtp server installed on virtual linux server. so first question is that is that might be the reason i am not getting any emails? Second, do i need to set schedule task on windows server rather on virtual server?

To make is clear I have set my crontabs on virtual server.

Please reply i need your expert opinion.
thanks

These all setting are done and working fine. i have setup the cronjobs in linux box. but no email triggers somehow. i am putting my cronjobs code
CIVI_ROOT=/var/www/drupal/sites/all/modules/civicrm
PHP = nice -n19 /user/bin/php
PARAMS= -sdefault -udrupaluser -pdrupaluserpassword

*/5 * * * *  cd $CIVI_ROOT; $PHP bin/civimail.cronjob.php $PARAMS
*/5 * * * *  cd $CIVI_ROOT; $PHP bin/action.cronjob.php $PARAMS
*/5 * * * *  cd $CIVI_ROOT; $PHP bin/CiviReportMail.php $PARAMS

i am assuming this ll trigger after 5 mins recursively. is that right?

if thats right then no email is going through.  i am not using mutli sites. that's why i put sitename as default.  but if i put the actual sitename. will it make any difference? also i dont know how to test that my cronjobs are running? and its triggering these commands.

It is /usr/bin/php. my typo here.

 A Few questions,
i am not hosting multisites. so for params if i put -shttp://mysitename.com instead of -sdefault will it make any confusion? or both are fine?
for this one */5 * * * *  cd $CIVI_ROOT; $PHP bin/civimail.cronjob.php $PARAMS
if i put */5 * * * *  cd $CIVI_ROOT && $PHP bin/civimail.cronjob.php $PARAMS, will it be fine again? in this i replaced ; to  &&