[wayne.r.whitten]

Does the Feed by Mail extension need to be purchased? I see membership is required. Is that the same as the free user account that enables me to submit questions like this?

[wayne.r.whitten]

I’m testing another utility for individual notices. So that’s covered.

I’m confused between the Edit Newsletter/Status settings and the Feed by Mail settings. I’m in test mode to prove this works and need to understand how the automatic deliver is supposed to work, and with which settings. Thanks for specifying the Feed by Mail extension. I’ll try the settings. But I see the note under the Emails tab “No emails will be generated by this demo module.”. Is the demo version supposed to send automatic emails, or does it ignore the settings?

[wayne.r.whitten]

I found a few blogs on how to use Task Scheduler with PHP. Below is what I have working.

A daily Trigger: at 8:30 AM every day – After triggered, repeat every 5 minutes indefinitely.
The Action: Start the c:\xampp\htdocs\four\cron.bat

The accompanying bat file is simply this:
cd /d c:\xampp\htdocs\four
c:\xampp\php\php.exe -f c:\xampp\htdocs\four\wp-cron.php

I don’t know if all this is perfectly configured, but it does work.

Next questions:

1) Is it possible to only send notices and not the full newsletter? I remember reading this in your documentation, but am not totally clear.

2) How do I configure the plugin to automatically send a notice after a new post? Or am I required to create the newsletter manually every time?

3) I’ve been asked to find out if these newsletters or notices can be sent via individual schedules based on member preferences.

[wayne.r.whitten]

Yes, I have composed several newsletters, and tested each. I just can’t seem to get the system to send via cron.

I’ve read your documentation about the delivery engine and the cron, but this is an intranet site (behind a firewall with a proxy) so I doubt it will work with outside/public services.

I am not yet good enough with PHP to test this without the use of a graphical user interface, and since I am using Windows Server 2008 R2 I am checking online resources to see if I can use the built in Task Scheduler. I do not have the luxury of working with a system administrator, at least not yet. So if you can recommend how to do the HTTP call setup I would appreciate it.

Thanks for the prompt response.

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