Automatic sending of Emails

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I have installed PHPLIST in a shared hosting. I’m using version 3.4.0, but I can not get emails sent automatically in the time I want.
A Script with phplist name was made like this:
#! / bin / bash
/ usr / bin / php
/home/palomoxyz/public_html/list/admin/index.php -c
/home/palomoxyz/public_html/list/config/config.php $ *

Permissions were given to phplist file 755

I have placed it in the “bin” directory of the root of the home

I have created these Crons, but none works. Just send the emails at 6:00 AM, not like I want it to be at the time I want.
phplist -p processqueue
0/5 * * * * phplist -p processqueue> / dev / null 2> & 1
0 3 * * * phplist -p processbounces> / dev / null 2> & 1

I also tried with:
/ home / palomoxyz / bin / phplist -p processqueue
/ phplist -p processqueue

In the config file it has been set to 0
define (“MANUALLY_PROCESS_BOUNCES”, 0);
define (“MANUALLY_PROCESS_QUEUE”, 0);

Someone could help me to know what I’m failing. I want the emails to be sent at the scheduled time and not just at 6:00 AM

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If you cannot get cron working as desired with your hosting company, then you may consider the free queue processing service from phpList.com, documented here: https://www.phplist.org/manual/ch035_methods-of-sending-browser-cron-command-line.xhtml

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Thanks Samtuke. But I want 250 emails to be sent every 2 hours. In fact my shared hosting allows 350 per hour. But I do not know that Cron is wrong that does not work. In the server company they tell me that it is not a problem of the server, but of some Cron that is wrong, but I do not know which one.

4

You can create another cron script to do something simpler to test if it is being executed at the correct time.

5

I’m going to try, thanks.
Samtuke I see that the command phplist -p processqueue is written sometimes phplist -p processqueue and other times phplist -pprocessqueue there is some difference. I’m not an expert on this.

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I was able to solve the convenient Cron configuration.
With these Cron I managed to make it work.
/bin/sh /home/palomoxyz/bin/phplist.sh -pprocessqueue
/bin/sh /home/palomoxzy/bin/phplist.sh -pprocessqueue> / dev / null 2> & 1
/bin/sh /home/palomoxyz/bin/phplist.sh -pprocessbounces> / dev / null 2> & 1
Thank you Samtuke for the interest you showed in wanting to help me.

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Great to hear you resolved the issue.

Where did you see this wrongly written command documented? We should fix it so that others are not confused by it in future.