Send emails from queue, it happens every cron execution

the settings are 5m-1h

for clarification 5m empties the queue every five minutes 7m empties the queue every 7 minutes and 1h empties the queue every hour?

my queue seems to be dribbling.... I am working with Arvixe to see what is going on.

I have it set to 5m.

Any advice here?

Thanks!

Peer

Does this look correct?

 have emptied out the queue and added a few more mail messages and they are not leaving the queue.

I have been online with Arvixe and they seem to be at a loss...

Any ideas?

Peer

I am getting the Periodic Report

Start email send - total queued emails: 24

Ready for send: 5

Process emails: 5

and the queue never seems to go down.

Peer

Your first issue is that your with Arvixe.  Go talk to Dosdawg, he'll educate you on the infinite issues that servers can create or resolve on dependent upon the set up of the server. 

it's not correct! You should make cron jobs like this :

remove your email from cron's job email notify field

@Sasha- thanks for your help... this makes sense.. I was going to delete because the 5 seemed to add up to the 5 emails... interesting how Arvixe could not fix this. Interestingly enough, it was them how went in to fix something with the Cron jobs to begin with.... :)

Peer

@Sasha- Change implemented. lets see what happens :)

Thanks again!

Peer

You are welcome

@Sasha-

Thanks again. It looked like this worked. The Queue is empty for the first time since Arvixe "fixed" it the first time... :)

Peer

@Sasha-

I just sent a mass mail to all members, I now have 351 emails in my queue and they appear to be stuck.

Is there anyway I could pay you to work on this problem for me?

Arvixe just seems stuck.... I have made no "mods" to the software.

I really want to take this site live.... but things like this seem to cause me problems...

Thanks!

Peer

send me PM

@pplaut: You can contact us. We will resolve this issue for you.

I've got mass emails stuck in queue also.  Here is the chron command.  It is possible we made some changes to this to get the video processing working.  Any recommendations?

MAILTO=info@virtualbraintrust.org cd /var/www/vhosts/VirtualBrainTrust.org/httpdocs/periodic; /usr/bin/php -q cron.php

Could someone advise me - isn't there a way to invoke this manually for now, until I get my chron fixed.  I don't know how it works, but doesn't the chron just invoke a php file?   Does anyone know which one for the mass mailer?  

 Try this:

How to run a Cron Job Manually:

There is a way to manually execute the cron job also, by renaming the .htaccess file located in the /periodic folder to something like .htaccess.old. You can then manually run the cron job by physically typing in the location in your browsers address bar. Example: www.mysite.com/periodic/cron.php
- You will want to make sure you have cleared the /cache (except for .htaccess) and /public_cache directories.
- When you navigate to your www.mysite.com/periodic/cron.php, you WILL GET A BLANK PAGE. This is normal. If you see that this page loads instantly, try clearing the cache as explained above and try again. The page SHOULD load for at least a couple of seconds.
** Before manually running your cron job, please verify that your cron job settings are correct. Also, if you have renamed your .htaccess file during this process, make sure you rename it BACK.