Comments on: Magento Newsletter

By: Nabler

Nabler — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:07:18 +0000

Its work now thnx….

By: Nabler

Nabler — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:49:02 +0000

but the newsletter not send to the subscriber any way..
i’ve been workin for this over 24 hours please lead me to the right direction…….

By: Toni Anicic

Toni Anicic — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 08:30:19 +0000

@Nabler,

That’s exactly what you should get when you run cron.php

By: Nabler

Nabler — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:39:50 +0000

Its not working for me i just got a blank page when i run cron.php

please help me….SOS

By: Nj

Nj — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:09:19 +0000

Hi guys,

I have cron job :



require 'app/Mage.php';
if (!Mage::isInstalled()) {

    echo "Application is not installed yet, please complete install wizard first.";

    exit;

}
// Only for urls

// Don't remove this

$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] = str_replace(basename(__FILE__), 'index.php', $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']);

$_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] = str_replace(basename(__FILE__), 'index.php', $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']);
Mage::app('admin')->setUseSessionInUrl(false);

try { Mage::getConfig()->init()->loadEventObservers('crontab'); Mage::app()->addEventArea('crontab'); Mage::dispatchEvent('default'); $ob = Mage::getModel('catalogrule/observer'); $ob->dailyCatalogUpdate("0 1 * * *"); } catch (Exception $e) { Mage::printException($e); } ?>

When I set a newsletter template and assign in queue, it showing ‘Not sent’ but when I run cron.php manually. after some time it showing ‘Sent’. But no any mail comes on subscribers email addresses.

Anyone can do help me to retrieve this problem?

By: Bashdaddy

Bashdaddy — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:32:41 +0000

I’ve tried everything and can’t get my newsletter to run. I have tried all sorts of times and I have pulled the file via the search bar. When I do that all I see is a white screen but no emails are sent. This is my cron file.

require ‘app/Mage.php’;

if (!Mage::isInstalled()) {
echo “Application is not installed yet, please complete install wizard first.”;
exit;
}

// Only for urls
// Don’t remove this
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] = str_replace(basename(__FILE__), ‘index.php’, $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']);
$_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] = str_replace(basename(__FILE__), ‘index.php’, $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']);

Mage::app(‘admin’)->setUseSessionInUrl(false);

try {
Mage::getConfig()->init()->loadEventObservers(‘crontab’);
Mage::app()->addEventArea(‘crontab’);
Mage::dispatchEvent(‘default’);
} catch (Exception $e) {
Mage::printException($e);
}

Any ideas here… I’m clueless but I need to send out emails. Thanks

By: Frederik Krautwald

Frederik Krautwald — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:57:10 +0000

Does anyone know of a variable to put in the newsletter template, that will allow the user to view an online version? Like you can preview it from the admin area.

By: Sigi

Sigi — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:15:30 +0000

Many many Thanks Toni. This worked and kicked off the process.

By: Toni Anicic

Toni Anicic — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:32:01 +0000

@Sigi,

Set it in past. If your store is installed on the root of domain, just visit example.com/cron.php with your browser. If it’s not in root, add the folder where Magento is before /cron.php

If this doesn’t work, there might be somethign wrong with your configuration.

By: Sigi

Sigi — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:55:11 +0000

Hi Guys. Trying to send a newsletter for the first time. I cant seem to get it to work.
The drop down box on the newsletter wueue only contains the option “preview”. I tried schedulng a send out both in future and past, but no newsletter gets sent.
On the previous post it states that you may be able to kick off the cron job manually. Where is the cronid the url calls for? I know it must be something dumb I am doing because its my first time, but cant seem tget it to work.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

By: Coffee Pods

Coffee Pods — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:52:57 +0000

Thanks for your help guys i’m just about to send my first newsletter

By: Gtech

Gtech — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:20:16 +0000

Thank you for your sugestions. Keep posting.

By: Next

Next — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:06:43 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion, maybe you are pointing me in the right direction.

By: Toni Anicic

Toni Anicic — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:58:24 +0000

I think script runs multiple times when cron is activated, it sure isn’t sending 20 every 15 minutes, it’s sending more (even with default installation).

However, I’m not a programmer so I can’t give you any answers from that perspective

By: Next

Next — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:37:44 +0000

Ok, in the meantime I found out where the value is. Two locations:
1)
\app\Code\Core\Mage\Adminhtml\Controllers\Newslette\Queuecontroller.php
Inside “public function sendingAction()” > $countOfSubscritions = 20;

2)
\app\Code\Core\Mage\Newsletter\Model\Observer.php
Inside “public function scheduledSend($schedule)” > $countOfSubscritions = 20;

So default limit is 20, which is a pretty conservative batch size. Good.
Tonight cron was configured to run each 15 minutes. It ran two times, then I see no more “cron.php” entries in the server log.
20 x 2 = 40 => Subscribers 1 to 40 should be marked “sent” in newsletter admin.
Instead, Magento admin marks users 1 to ***300*** as sent. The mail server queue had 180 e-mails when it died.
Do you agree that problem was probably cause by strange behaviour of cron.php? Did you experience anything wrong with it on your projects?
Thanks!

By: Toni Anicic

Toni Anicic — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:18:29 +0000

@Next,

Not sure where the limit can be seen or configured in code, but I’m 100% positive that Magento will not send all e-mails at once.

By: Next

Next — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:04:21 +0000

Toni, thanks for this tutorial. Can you explain where the “integrated limit on the number of emails it can send at once” is found?
Tonight we scheduled an HTML newsletter with 470 subcribers, you know a very small group. Newsletter code was professionally created, all images external.
To our surprise, Magento filled out the mail server to death.
There really needs to make this “integrated limit” visible in the configuration. So the admin can choose a batch size compatible with available resources.

By: Ivan Weiler

Ivan Weiler — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:19:38 +0000

Thanks Toni, I owe you a beer! Who said programmers can’t learn from marketing guys

By: Dhaval

Dhaval — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:39:19 +0000

If U give code and live demo how this newsletter Work So it’s more Better To Understand But this will also help full
whatever, THANX

By: anoop

anoop — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:58:45 +0000

@Toni Anicic
Actually there is a start option in the drop down under the Action column. In our case it was’nt showing. Thats why we had to use this method..[:P]