FESAus website documentation: DRAFT
How to fix CiviMail when it stops sending messages
We have had a number of instances when CiviMail seems to work but messages don’t actually get sent out. We found two different problems: either the cron job was stopped or had disappeared, or the cron job mailbox had filled up. Here are the 2 solutions:
- If the cron job has disappeared or stopped, go to hostmonster / cpanel / cron jobs and restart or create the following cron job:
wget -O /dev/null ‘http://www.fesaus.org/new/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/bin/civimail.cronjob.php?name=cron&pass=Pec********####&key=@Pec********####’ where Pec********#### is the password we’ve used. - If the cron job mailbox filled up:
– Log into hostmonster
– Select the “Email Accounts” in the Email Section
– This gives you a display which shows the space left in cron@fesaus.org and no-reply@fesaus.org. (no-reply was at 110/250 Mb quota, I have just purged it again tonight)
– Click on the More button to access the no-reply@fesaus.org webmail (password Pec********#### with no exclaimation mark)
– Select an email reader to use. I recommend Horde as it has a “Empty Folder” option (icon above messages pane) to purge to entire Intray in a single click
– Select Inbox, then click on Empty Folder (icon to right of Inbox Title)
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Written by Martin Storey and Scott Cole on 12-Aug-2012 and 4-Mar-2013, entered by Martin Storey on 5-Mar-2013