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My server won't allow cron jobs!!!
Damn!... Like I said... My server won't allow cron jobs, and the incoming.pl file needs to do the cron job to be able to parse out the emails right?... And without cron I am up the creek without a paddle?

Augh...
Tracy


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Hello!

On telnet execute the incoming.pl yourself.

Type following:

perl incoming.pl or
perl5 incoming.pl

Note that you should change to that directory where the incoming.pl resides. This is manual execution command through shell of the telnet. Cronjob does this automatically for you at a scheduled time. Stupid this is that you may have to do it very many times per day for many incoming emails, which would be a headache.

I however do not know how to integrate it in the admin of G-Mail and execute it from there through web interface.

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Hello!

see: http://www.smartcgis.com/cron/

Gruß aus Berlin
Ralf
http://www.netreal.de

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Well... After looking into the fake cron it seems I can't use that either. It requires LWP::UserAgent Module which my server doesn't have or intend to install!!

It seems I have an expensive programme that I cannot use!!!

Tracy
(depressed in Maine)
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Hi Tracy,

You could edit login.cgi and add:

my $results = `/full/path/to/incoming.pl`;

that will run the incoming.pl script whenever someones runs the login script. Note, this is not ideal, and not really a good solution. Alternatively you can use the individual mode which does not require incoming.pl. Finally, you could consider another ISP. =)

Cheers,

Alex

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Please suggest us a new ISP where it is possible to run a cron job each 5-10 minutes.
Antoine
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Wil: Feb 24, 2002, 7:58 AM
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Hi,

How many users do you have?
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Hi
Ours is a community website, i think that we will have at least 500 users by one year.
Thanks
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Where do you add the code at?

I put it near the beginning following:

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# login processor.
#

my $t = GMail->template_set;
$CFG->load_template_set($t);

my $results = `/full/path/to/incoming.pl`;
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That seems to work and I don't see any errors in error-log file.
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Rob

SW Montana's Online Community
Modular Model Railroading