Problem with reminder notifications and cron
By Krischan
event_calender (full, latest version from the github) is working great, but I don't seem to be getting any reminder notifications (even though I have them set up correctly I think).
On new events messages are send out fine though.
Our shared host doesn't allow setting up cronjobs to less than 15minutes, but I made one that links the 5 minutes elgg cron page to a 15 minutes interval and that seems to work fine (with cron check the event_calender is recognized as a 5 min cron hook, and the 5 min cron is executed every 15 minutes).
Any idea what could be the cause? The automatic reminders are amonst the most important features for us.
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You must log in to post replies.You need my message_queue plugin to actually send the reminders. Without that the reminders are only schedulled to be sent but not actually sent.
I will change the plugin settings text for reminders to make this clear.
Kevin
Ok, thanks for the quick reply.
This one I assume: https://github.com/kevinjardine/message_queue
(seems to activate fine on 1.8.18 despite its age).
Lets hope it does not interfere with the digest or the HTML email handler plugin.
Yes. Throttling email sending was something I needed to do a lot so I moved it to a separate plugin. This might change in Elgg 1.9 because I think that they are adding more core support for email queues.
Hmm, still doesn't seem to work.
The message_queue plugin, does it need to be before or after the event_calender plugin in the plugin list?
Is there any plugin that could be conflicting? Especially those that also send out email on cron jobs might be suspect right?
The order should not matter. I tested this myself earlier in the day on my localhost and determined via an error_log message that the notify_user code is executed. My localhost does not actually send mail but if the appropriate notify_user function is called, I think it should work just fine.
You can verify this yourself by putting your own error_log statement before line 86 of
message_queue/models/model.php
Sorry I can't help more.
Very strange, I tried what Kevin suggested and it does not seem to even get to that point, e.g. no error log at all.
I also tried to disable the HTML email handler and the digest plugin, but no change.
Does anyone else have this working with Elgg 1.8.18?
Ok, maybe this is intended behaviour, but it seems to only send reminders for "public" events and not those visible to group members only. Sorry that I didn't try that before, but I was testing in our admin group and didn't want to disturb the "public" users of the site.
Is there an easy way to allow sending reminders for group only events?
Not intended behaviour, but might be a bug. I will check today.
Ok, I made an issue on github for it. Thanks for checking it out!
I also noticed that this doesn't use the Elgg internal notification system, e.g. only emails are send but no Elgg message.