By onetwo on

Hi all

I'm trying to make cron work and I'm about to give up after 5 hours...

Everyone on forums are talking about a checkbox "Use cron to send newsletters" - I can't find this at all. When writing the newsletter issue, I have 3 options:
- Don't send now
- Send one test newsletter to the test address
- Send newsletter

There is no mention of cron. Same thing with the simplenews settings. In the Mail backend I can set the "Initial send time" and "Cron throttle"... again no checkbox saying "Use cron to send newsletters".

Please help...

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lionheart8’s picture

lionheart8 commented

I have not used simplenews, but for other modules/functions requiring cron, the "poormanscron module" should do.
I have never had a problem with it, though I think I have read somewhere it's not good for very large sites or something like that.
The other alternative that is then used is to set cron to run from the control panel of your hosting account.

onetwo’s picture

onetwo commented

I'm trying to avoid the poormanscron - it's a pretty big site...

onetwo’s picture

onetwo commented

anyone?

glavind’s picture

glavind commented

hi
I advise you to check with your modules if the actually require cron (I don't know how to find out this. Search google).
Simplenews is pr. default set up to send mails when the cron job runs. This is only useful when you're sending huge amounts of mails. You find the cron settings in Simplenews here: Administer » Site configuration » Simplenews. And there it should be right in front of you :) [ ] Use cron to send newsletters
Also i've read that the search module needs cron for something... But uhm, you might find out that you don't need to run cron jobs after all.

ssg13565’s picture

ssg13565 commented

/admin/settings/simplenews/mail

The simplenews docs recommend the use of Cron as opposed to other methods mentioned in previous comments.