E-Mail notification

E-Mail notification

by Peter Sereinigg -
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This works fine until view days ago.

E-Mail from the unix server works with sending forgotton e-mails.

BUT E-Mail notification does not work with forum or dialog. Students told me that view days ago.

It worked fine the last weekes - there where no changes on the server.

I use the latest moodle 1.2 version...

any idea?

Thanks peter

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Re: E-Mail notification

by Gustav W Delius -

You have to set up a cron job to regularly load the page http://ps.powerlearning.at/moodle/admin/cron.php. See http://moodle.org/doc/?file=install.html#cron for information.

I just opened the page http://ps.powerlearning.at/moodle/admin/cron.php and it has now started sending out hundreds of forum posts. So your Moodle is working fine.

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Re: E-Mail notification: how often does cron send it?

by Doug Briggs -

I'll tag this onto this thread as it relates pretty closely.

I'm using Moodle 1.2.1 on a Windows 2000 surprise Server. I have set cron to run every 5 minutes using Scheduled Tasks. The emails that are sent after posting are only sent sporadically, not every time that cron runs. Is there a setting that I haven't found?

In debugging, I am saving the output of cron in the event log. If that information would be helpful, I'll send it along.

Thanks,

Doug

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Re: E-Mail notification: how often does cron send it?

by koen roggemans -
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The forum posts have a default editing time of 30 minutes (wich you can change) before they are send out...
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Re: E-Mail notification: how often does cron send it?

by Doug Briggs -

Thanks Koen,

I have found (and reduced) the time parameter. Our contributors want faster dialog.

For anyone that is having problems with Windows configuration of Cron, I have configured the scheduler to run cron.php every 5 minutes. The scheduler task settings are:

  • task/run: c:\winnt\system32\CMD.EXE /c c:\php\php c:\inetpub\moodle\admin\cron.php
  • schedule: daily, advanced: repeat task every 5 minutes, until 24 hours

Please contact me if you have any questions about this. I'd be happy to help you get going.

Doug Briggs
dbriggs@dmill.com

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