Running Cron Jobs With Mailer

Kyle, Selecting URL 3 worked and sent out the email.

Now, hopefully last question... I want this mailer to send automatically 5 minutes after each new subscriber has subscribed. Will URL 3 do this? Obviously I shouldn't have to trigger this manually...

Thanks, sorry for being dense.

Mike

Now, hopefully last question... I want this mailer to send automatically 5 minutes after each new subscriber has subscribed. Will URL 3 do this? Obviously I shouldn't have to trigger this manually...

Yes, you'd use URL 3. However I am unsure how you're going to add a delay to it. You could use the CBSubs URL to trigger a GET request on the mailer URL after every active subscription. This won't have a 5 minute delay, but it'd process the queue everytime a user subscribed.

Kyle, Still not understanding.

I'm trying to replicate this "use" case in the manual:

Mailer Use Case example #1 (MUC1) is based on the following concept idea:
• Welcome message sent 1 week after registration
Send your new users a followup message (in addtion to CB welcome
message) one week after their registration date.

Except that I selected 5 minutes after from the "Automatically send message at following date" pull down menu.

There has to be a way to trigger these automatically. Otherwise if I have to run the job manually then what good are the trigger times/dates?

I can set up a cron job via my host for daily - but it doesn't allow me to send it 5 minutes after...

???????

Mike

There has to be a way to trigger these automatically.

That's the entire purpose of CRON.

I can set up a cron job via my host for daily - but it doesn't allow me to send it 5 minutes after..

It's not going to send exactly 5 minutes after. Your daily CRON will process the queue daily and send emails daily. If you need to send an email to a user that early after subscribing you should use the Presentation tab emails or CBSubs Emails and just send an email when they immediately become active.