[TYPO3] howto setup cron task for direct mail extension

[Jean-Baptiste Aviat]

Hello,
You just have to put this line in /etc/crontab.
You can find more information about your specific distribution 
configuration by consulting cron 's man, just type "man crontab".
Jean-Baptiste

Bram de Leeuw wrote:
>  
> Dear list recipients,I
> have the direct mail extension set up and running. Sending the mails
> works perfect as long as I manually invoke the mailer engine. But now I
> want to use the mailer cron task. Since I have a recipient-list of over
> 1600 subscribers and don't want to choke the receiving server (all
> subscribers are members of a school, so they are all on the same mail
> server) it is necessary to send the mails per 45 mails per 30 minutes.The things I don't understand from the extension manual is where to put the following line:
> */5 * * * * /home/....../public_html/typo3conf/ext/direct_mail/mod/dmailerd.phpcron> /dev/null
> It seems as if the writer of the manual assumes you to know but I
> don't. And also I can't find this information anywhere! On every
> tutorial or message board I checked nobody states where to insert the
> above line.Any help is greatly appreciated! Bram de Leeuw.
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