>Mark Sapiro wrote: >The digest messages are accumulated for a list in a mbox format file >lists/LISTNAME/digest.mbox. When a new message arrives and is added to >digest.mbox and the size of digest.mbox is now greater than the list's >digest_size_threshold, a digest is sent at that time for that list, >and the digest.mbox is removed.
>So, digests based on digest_size_threshold will work whether or not cron/senddigests is run. Right. I'm with you so far. >Running cron/senddigests will send a digest for any list which has a >digest.mbox file and for which digest_send_periodic=yes regardless of >how big the digest is. This is where we part ways. Without the senddigests cron job, isn't the above statement also true anyway? Because the digest_sent_periodic=yes setting also doesn't care if the digest.mbox is over 30K. It just sends out a message "daily" (what time, I do not know) whenever a digest.mbox exists. So my question was: Is the only reason you run the cron job in the first place, Is to force that "daily" run to a specific time (eg noon)? I say this because I have never ran that cron job, but I'm pretty sure everyone gets their digests anyway. > So, if you ran it and nothing happened, there were no such lists. This seems >unlikely. Are you sure no digests were sent? I guess it's possible no digest.mboxes exist. There aren't that many digest users here. >And yes, running it at noon daily forces the periodic digests at noon, >but you can chose another time. I prefer mine to go over night so I >run cron/senddigests daily at 03:30. I will probably set it up to run at 3:00 am as well. I just ran it at 12:48 today so I could watch it (do nothing (!)). I suppose I should change the setting that sends a digest if it exceeds 30K too (change it to 1000K or something, so that people never get more than one digest-per-day), and just use the cron job to send once a day, regardless of size, at 3:00. I just am not clear on why I need a cronjob to do that, unless its only purpose is to force a specific time. - jim - ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
