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Sep 8, 2004, 3:48 PM

smsltd

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Sep 8, 2004, 3:48 PM

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Newsletter Plugin: How to send emails from command line using nph-email.cgi?

I have purchased the Newsletter plugin.

I want to send out all of my mailings via the command line. How do I do this?

When i run ./nph-email.cgi it says:

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[optimusprime@marx admin]$ ./nph-email.cgi
Usage: ./nph-email.cgi mailing_id
./nph-email.cgi will attempt to send all the e-mails associated with that ID.
[optimusprime@marx admin]$ ./nph-email.cgi 0
Usage: ./nph-email.cgi mailing_id
./nph-email.cgi will attempt to send all the e-mails associated with that ID.

I assume that you can run it from the command. If you can't then I need a refund.

Sep 9, 2004, 12:03 AM

ridesworld

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Sep 9, 2004, 12:03 AM

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Hello,

what does it say when you try perl nph-email.cgi??

normally nph-scripts like
nph-build.cgi
nph-email.cgi
nph-verify.cgi should be started with perl nph-<scriptname>.cgi

Sep 9, 2004, 12:22 AM

smsltd

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Sep 9, 2004, 12:22 AM

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Erm, in this regard running

./nph-email.cgi

is exactly the same as

perl nph-email.cgi

(Am I missing something about your question?!)

Anyone have any ideas?

Sep 9, 2004, 12:24 AM

Andy

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Sep 9, 2004, 12:24 AM

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You need to enter something like;

perl ./nph-email.cgi 1234

... where "1234" is the ID number of the mailing that you want to send out.

Hope that helps.

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Sep 9, 2004, 12:27 AM

Andy

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Sep 9, 2004, 12:27 AM

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Erm, in this regard running

./nph-email.cgi

is exactly the same as

perl nph-email.cgi

(Am I missing something about your question?!)

Anyone have any ideas?

Hi.

I think Eric was just trying to say that its good practice to pass in "perl /path/command.cgi", rather than excluding the "perl" part. The only reason behind this, is that not all servers work by just typing "script.cgi" , and you need to prefex the script name with the command it needs to be run through (in this case, perl).

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

Sep 9, 2004, 12:29 AM

smsltd

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Sep 9, 2004, 12:29 AM

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Hi Andy,

I've already tried that. Problem is that there are no mailings defined - it uses a single newsletter template and there are no mailings defined in the relevant mysql table.

I will email Jack.

Sep 9, 2004, 12:31 AM

smsltd

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Sep 9, 2004, 12:31 AM

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Hi Andy,

Thanks for your help. This really isn't the problem. I've been running Links SQL/Links for five years now and I have no problems running nph scripts.