Set time of day to send emails

  • Resolved co1inr

    (@co1inr)


    9 years, 2 months ago

    Hi There.

    Thanks for a great plugin.

    I’ve got everything up an running and am using a cron job to trigger the daily task of broadcasting the auto-responders.

    I’ve set this to run at 10:00 GMT everyday but for some reason the emails are being sent out in the middle of the night.

    Can you advise? Is there a way for me to ensure the emails are sent out at approx 10am?

    Thanks in advance

    Colin

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/bft-autoresponder/

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  • Plugin Author Bob

    (@prasunsen)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    For the moment this is not possible in the free version. The reason is that the cron job triggers the first time when someone visits your blog for the day.

    Thread Starter co1inr

    (@co1inr)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks for the reply.

    I’ve disabled the standard WP-Cron which is triggered by visitors and set an external cron job on my server which runs at 10:00 GMT every day.

    From what you’ve said I’d expect this to send at the email pretty much at that point as the cron just runs once. However the most recent were sent out at 02:12 GMT.

    What could be causing the difference in time?

    Colin

    Plugin Author Bob

    (@prasunsen)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    It doesn’t use wp-cron, it;s started from your blog visitors. So once someone visit your blog, the cron job starts.

    Thread Starter co1inr

    (@co1inr)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    The site doesn’t have any visitors. It’s brand new.

    The cron job points to /wp-cron.php which seems to trigger BFT?

    Colin

    Plugin Author Bob

    (@prasunsen)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    The main init() function triggers BFT, it does not need to go through wp-cron.php. Even you trigger it when visiting your admin. Google bot will also trigger it.

    For the moment it is how it is. We’ll add some option soon to allow running only on cron job but till then there is no way to avoid the current behavior.

    Thread Starter co1inr

    (@co1inr)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    Ah! Got you.

    I notice there’s a control for send time in the PRO version. Would this give me what I need?

    And would my existing autoresponders be retained after upgrade?

    Colin

    Plugin Author Bob

    (@prasunsen)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    Yes, PRO has it, but I promise to include it in free in few days. Generally we prefer people to upgrade only if they like the Pro features, and not based on something wrong in the free version 🙂

    Yes, all your data can be transferred from the pro settings page.

    Thread Starter co1inr

    (@co1inr)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    That would be fantastic! I look forward to downloading the upgrade.

    Colin

    Plugin Author Bob

    (@prasunsen)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    Just added the option in version 2.2.3

    Thread Starter co1inr

    (@co1inr)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    Thank you so much! I upgraded yesterday, adjusted my cron job settings and all worked perfectly this morning at 10am.

    Superb.

    Colin

    Plugin Author Bob

    (@prasunsen)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    Most welcome!

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