[Typo3] How to invoke Direct Mail Engine remotely

Bernhard Kraft kraftb at kraftb.at
Sun May 15 12:14:39 CEST 2005


Mark Gillingham wrote:
> This is beyond me right now. Please help.
> 
> The cron script supplied with the Direct Mail Module is perfect if you 
> have access to crontab, but some hosts limit cron to one job per day. 
> What are the options in this case? Is it possible to access a php script 
> from the Internet on a scheduled basis? What script? Perhaps a Perl or 
> PHP script could be setup on a timed basis to launch the dmailer.phpcron 
> without using cron? How should one send batches of mail without access 
> to crontab on the host?

You would have to modify dmailerd.phpcron in such a way that it is callable
via the web ... then you would have to create access restrictions so just
your IP is allowed to call the script (via .htaccess)


greets,
Bernhard



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