Hi
Please refer to the previous thread (viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12803) for some background on this - but the situation now is a little different. I never managed to get that situation resolved and ended up with a regular manual task to delete data, which wasn't great but worked.
I'm closing down the site now and have to advise all the users - 13800 of them. I can't send more that 200 emails every hour, so I want to use a cron job running every ten minutes to:
* Get the next batch of 30 users, where the 'email sent' field in the extended user record is blank
* Send an email to each one
* Update the 'email sent' field to show that the email has been sent.
This runs fine if I initiate it while logged in, but not if I'm not logged in, or if it's run by the cron job - if I'm not runnign it when logged in I get the 'Cheating?!' response.
I'd really appreciate it if @KK, or someone else who understands it, could tell me exactly how to use the 'GC addon' referred to - but never resolved - in the previous thread, or some other way of doing this.
I have to get these emails sent, and unfortunately I've been held up by the client on some details, so time is short before my domain name and hosting expire. Manually running it every ten minutes 24/7 for most of the next week is really not an option!
Please refer to the previous thread (viewtopic.php?f=4&t=12803) for some background on this - but the situation now is a little different. I never managed to get that situation resolved and ended up with a regular manual task to delete data, which wasn't great but worked.
I'm closing down the site now and have to advise all the users - 13800 of them. I can't send more that 200 emails every hour, so I want to use a cron job running every ten minutes to:
* Get the next batch of 30 users, where the 'email sent' field in the extended user record is blank
* Send an email to each one
* Update the 'email sent' field to show that the email has been sent.
This runs fine if I initiate it while logged in, but not if I'm not logged in, or if it's run by the cron job - if I'm not runnign it when logged in I get the 'Cheating?!' response.
I'd really appreciate it if @KK, or someone else who understands it, could tell me exactly how to use the 'GC addon' referred to - but never resolved - in the previous thread, or some other way of doing this.
I have to get these emails sent, and unfortunately I've been held up by the client on some details, so time is short before my domain name and hosting expire. Manually running it every ten minutes 24/7 for most of the next week is really not an option!