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Events Mailer Documentation |
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Requirements: - Joomla! 1.5.x
- JEvents Component 1.4.3rc - available here running legacy mode under Joomla! 1.5
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. If you need automated mailings: Important: EventsMailer attempts to completely automate the process of sending your newsletter out at regular intervals, however it relies on people visiting your website. If your website is super popular at all hours of the day - great! - you don't have to do anything. However, for the rest of us whose page impressions around 4am are pretty much zero, there's one more step. It is best that you set up some computer to visit your Joomla! website at a non-peak time (maybe 4am??). If your webserver uses Linux as its Operating System, you can use a program called cron to visit your site each night. The entry in crontab should be something like the following: 0 4 * * * wget -O - http://example.com > /dev/null
where http://example.com is your website. This will visit your website at 4am every day and, as long as the EventsMailer module is installed, will cause EventsMailer to make sure it's sent the newsletter out (if it's configured to do so). If you use shared hosting and don't have SSH access (command line interface) to your webserver, you can ask your hosting provider if there is a way to set up a cron job. Most hosting providers provide an interface (like vDeck or cPanel) that you can use to add scheduled tasks. If this sounds like you, log in to your control panel and set it to run the following command at some non-peak time: wget -O - http://example.com > /dev/null
We hope you enjoy using EventsMailer!
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