How to periodically send the same message?

[wohdin]

[edit] whoops this was supposed to be in the tips section, my bad

From what I can gather, this is NOT the same thing as the repetition function. I need to be able to automate the process of rescheduling the SAME message, NOT a copy of the message. For instance, I have a custom (HTML) welcome message that I want to have rescheduled and processed at set intervals, sent to ONLY those in the list who have not recieved it yet. Is this doable?

[duncanc]

You want to periodically requeue that specific message, and then process the queue.

If you look at the messages page, you can see that you can requeue a message with the url http://xxx.com/lists/admin/?page=messages&resend=nnn where nnn is the id of the message.
You should be able to put this into a cron job, which you can then schedule to run regularly.
If you have php cgi then the command will be something like

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php /path/to/phplist/admin/index.php page=messages resend=nnn login=xxx password=yyy >resend.log

[Blisk]

I wan't to do almost the same. For a 3 groups of people I need to send them the same email every year at the same month.
So I need to send to first group an email every June and ofr second group I need to send an email every August and for third group I need to send the same email every December. How to do that?
I have installed the latest version of phplist.
As I searched many people ask for that function, and still is not implemented is that intentionally not implemented or it is too complicated?

[duncanc]

The Repetition feature might do what you want. See http://docs.phplist.com/Repetition.html

[Blisk]

Thank you for reply. Is there some example how to do it?

[thefly73]

Hello everyone,
I got the same / similar problem.

I send a mail message for the first time, then, I go to messages > sent, modify it a little and requeue it, so that the same email can be sent again to the same list (not only to new subscribers but to all the users of that list).

I want that other coworkers will be able to edit and resend the same mail to the same list again, after some days or months.

I also set define("USE_REPETITION",1) in the config file.

But when I process the queue, the report says that :

Started
Sending in batches of 360 emails
Processing has started, 1 message(s) to process.
Please leave this window open. You have batch processing enabled, so it will reload several times to send the messages. Reports will be sent by email to [myemail here]
Processing message 12
Looking for users
Found them: 0 to process
Processed 0 out of 0 users
Hmmm, No users found to send to
It took 5 secs to send this message
Script stage: 3
Finished, Nothing to do
Finished, All done

Notice that the 1 message to process is the message to me, which is a report of the sending process, which it was not sent (because no mailing happened at all).

Currently it seems to me that the only way to send a message twice is to copy source code from the first message and create a new message (which is something I would not like, I need some very easy operation to allow my coworkers to operate very easily).

Hope I was clear, waiting for your kind feedback, thank you

Andrea

[duncanc]

Currently it seems to me that the only way to send a message twice is to copy source code from the first message and create a new message

That is what you need to do. phplist will not send the same message to someone who has already received it.