Savoy, Jim wrote: > >>Mark Sapiro wrote: > >>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?
No. >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. It relies on cron/senddigests being run in order to do this and "daily" is whenever cron/senddigests runs and could be "twice daily" or "Mon, Wed and Fri" or whatever depending on when cron/senddigests runs. >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. Either they were only getting digests when the size threshold was reached, or if they were getting them daily at a specific time, then something was running cron/senddigests at that time. >> 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. You need the cron job because nothing else in Mailman sends digests periodically. The only other mechanism sends a digest when the list's digest.mbox exceeds a certain size, which may not happen for weeks on a low traffic list. -- Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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
