I recently installed Moodle (v2) and I have now the problem, that the notification of e.g. new entries in a forum are NOT distributed by e-mail.
Self registration via e-mail etc. is working fine.
I already configured SMTP etc. but no change...
Does anyone know a solution or has a hint how to solve my problem?
Thx Walter
I know this may sound silly, but have you set the forum properly? I mean, have you chosen the right subscription option? If the answer is yes, the only thing I can think of is to check the cron configuration. By the way, in your personal settings, have a look at the mail options!
regards,
juanma
I am having similar problems so where would I be able to access my cronconfiguration? I'm using parallel for my ftp.
Thank you.
Not sure what you mean by "parallel for my ftp", but the configuration to run the cron.php-script can not be done in moodle itself.
It's must be configured for the operating system. That could be a Scheduled Task for Windows or a cronjob for Linux.
Maybe you find what you need here: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Cron
Thank you. I'm using linux.
I have the same issue but my hosting doesn't allow for the cron job to run in less than 30 minutes. Would 30 min be all right in this case?
Also, how do I set up a cron job for Moodle if it's on the subdomain, and not on the main domain?
Also, I went into cPanel, Advanced -> cronjobs but the instructions I found where for Unix, and I have Linux... Is that the same?
Anyone, please?
I had the same issue with moodle 2.0.1
For welcome-notifications and message-notifications it is enough to configure the SMTP settings.
But for a forum you need to run the moodle/admin/cron.php script to send the notifications for forum acitivities. I'm running a Windows 2008 server so I needed to create a scheduled task that runs php.exe ...moodle\admin\cli\cron.php every 5 minutes.
After that you mailing worked fine for me.
