Does the emailgeeklogstories respond to a cron or does it need a special syntax. The cron runs without error but nothing gets posted out.

-Wayne-

Have you read How do I set up the Daily Digest? yet? I think it pretty much covers everything.

bye, Dirk

Umm No! I did a site search yesterday and it didn't come up on the results. I have printed and read it now and it seems I have carried out everything. I will keep looking to see what else I can discover from my server logs.

Thanks

-Wayne-

Dirk ... got this running and the first large digest has been delivered to myself 1012 stories I presume now future 'subscribers' will only get a partial digest of items posted since the last digest command. -Wayne-

Hi Dirk a tradady and many unhappy subscribers I set the Cron to run at 18:30 CET - every member got 1000 plus news items.<br /><br />Prior to this evening I had not set $_CONF('emailstories' to 1 it was set to zero. It seems when I set it to '1' every member was flagged to receive a daily digest by default. When the Cron ran everyone received a 5 MB digest - I can see the funny side but don't think many on slow dialups will.<br /><br />I have deleted the cron for now.<br /><br />-Wayne-<br /><br />

Check what you have in "lastemailedstories" in table gl_vars. That's the date and time the last digest was successfully sent. If it's empty or all zeros, then the digest hasn't been successfully sent yet - and all the stories will be sent again the next time the cron job runs.

This isn't really meant to send a lot of stories and/or to send them to a lot of people, since the cronjob will sooner or later hit a timeout and will not be considered completed.

You could set "lastemailedstories" to the current date and time (e.g. 2003-10-05 12:00:00) and that would mean that only stories published after that time will be sent out with the next digest.

Also, if you install the Manual Digest plugin, its entry in the Admin menu will tell you how many stories will be sent out with the next digest.

bye, Dirk

Dirk your comments help a great deal and something to work from. I did use your Manual Digests on the previous setup but did not always remember to send each day wanted something automatic. I will come back to the thread when I find out what went wrong, even if it were my fault.

Late note:

Just checked gl_var

totalhits 2564628
lastemailedstories 2003-10-05 16:19:46

So from your comments it should NOT have sent everything again.

Does anyone know how to set up a scheduled task in windows to make the digests go? I've got the manual working just fine.

How do you invoke it?

Thx