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abit confusd with setting up civimail / account / cron
June 26, 2012, 01:30:42 pm
I've read throug the book, the wiki pages and the floss manuals but still can't get this to work, so am working my way back from the beginning as am sure it is something obvious

The Book
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The cron job needs to run using an account recognized by your CMS. Create an account dedicated to this task (e.g., mailprocess, civimail, etc), give it a long, secure password (e.g.,seol-lzprm42amv-psyc) and grant it access on CiviCRM and CiviMail.
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For CiviMail to work in Drupal you must create a Drupal user with permissions to
    view all contacts
    access CiviCRM
    access CiviMail

Ok so I am using Joomla, what kind of Joomla account should be created, just a normal user for the site or a super admin? In joomla, when creating a user (or at least I do not know how) you cannot specify access to contacts / civi / civimail etc.

Would just like to confirm off what kind of joomla account to use, then can step forward to the next step :)

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Re: abit confusd with setting up civimail / account / cron
June 27, 2012, 06:15:09 am
Any Joomla account with access to CiviCRM and CiviMail should work.
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Re: abit confusd with setting up civimail / account / cron
June 27, 2012, 08:21:01 am
Thanks for the reply.

Today after sleeping and a few cups of tea, things become clearer (I think).

So I created a new Joomla user :mailprocess.
I made it super admin

I went to site.com/administrator/?option=com_civicrm&task=civicrm/admin/access&reset=1 and made sure the group had access to everything in civicrm.

So this step appears to have been ok and not the source of my problem.

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Re: abit confusd with setting up civimail / account / cron
June 27, 2012, 09:47:17 am
so the bounce email is all set up.

I think the floss manual is either outdated or not relevant to Joomla as it references URLS and files that do not exist, so am mainly using the book version.

Problem with the book is the cron example is not laid out correct, so it appears all in one line rather than across many lines, but I think I have it worked out by looking at the floss version.
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# This must be set to the directory where civicrm is installed.
CIVI_ROOT=/var/www/civicrm   
# Comment: I believe these two lines are unnecessary.
# USER=www-data
# MAILTO="you@example.org"   
# Location of the PHP Command Line Interface binary.
# nice -19 forces to run at a lower priority than the web server
PHP=nice -n19 /usr/bin/php   

# line to be modified according to the informations below
# like this: PARAMS= -j -s<default or domain> -u<user> -p<password> -e Job -a process_mailing
PARAMS= -j -sdefault -umailprocess -pseol-lzprm42amv-psyc  -e Job -a process_mailing
PARAMSBOUNCE= -j -sdefault -umailprocess -pseol-lzprm42amv-psyc  -e Job -a fetch_bounces 
# cronjob send
# m h dom mon dow command
*/5 * * * *  cd $CIVI_ROOT; $PHP bin/cli.php $PARAMS
*/15 * * * * cd $CIVI_ROOT; $PHP bin/cli.php $PARAMSBOUNCE




That said, on checking the webserver version as it would appear this would offer a better way of seeing it things are working.

Pulling the URL
http://[SITEROOT]/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/bin/cron.php?name=username&pass=password&key=site-key
I enter this with the account created, the password and the site-key as specified in the file, double checked all is correct

The site key is pulled form
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site/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm.settings.php

I still get an error
Fatal error: Call to undefined method JException::triggerEvent() in /administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/CRM/Utils/Hook/Joomla.php on line 58
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Re: abit confusd with setting up civimail / account / cron
June 27, 2012, 01:31:10 pm
Please see http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,25038.msg106264.html#msg106264 for that issue.
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Re: abit confusd with setting up civimail / account / cron
July 10, 2012, 03:22:08 pm
All working now.

Steps taken are in another thread:
http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,24926.15.html

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