Hi,

We have al little more than 5300 subscribers, so to avoid become blacklisted we would like to send our mailings sceduled.

I logged in to the SSH envoirement using Putty and added a cronjob (crontab -e)

# m h dom mon dow command
0 01,13 * * * lynx "http://www.domain.nl/index.php?option=com_rsmail&task=cron"

Our sceduled test mail was deliverd on July 1st on 01:00 (3 subscribers), so I figured out it works fine.

We setted a sceduled mailing on July 1st 13:44, I was convinced that the mailing would be deliverd to all our subscribers between 01:00 and 07:00 July 2nd according to the cronjob and the cron settings (900 p/h, check interval 1 minute). But the next morning I saw the report, just 27 mails has been sent. And i received an e-mail from Cron Deamon:

What is/am I going/doing wrong?

Thanx for helping!

I'm having similar issues with hosting on Site5.
Cron jobs hang after 2% when set up with:
lynx "lifesighs.com/index.php?option=com_rsmail&task=cron"
I tried an alternate syntax:
lynx -source "lifesighs.com/index.php?option=com_rsmail&task=cron" > /dev/null 2>&1

which does not work at all.
I am testing at the Jcron component, but that solution is less than ideal.
If anyone could any other ideas, that would be greatly appreciated. I do think it's time that the developers build this function into the extensions - there are lots of other Joomla extensions that do that (e.g. Akeeba back-up, etc.).
-Alan

Hello,

The message that you receive when setting the Cron task is not an error message but a message that the cron was correctly set. Another command that you can use for this is:

wget -O /dev/null lifesighs.com/index.php?option=com_rsmail&task=cron

If this does not work for you then it would be best to contact your hosting provider for other alternate commands.

From what I can see, no error message is triggered when accessing the Cron link manually:

lifesighs.com/index.php?option=com_rsmail&task=cron

So the cron is running correctly in RSMail!.