Do You Have To Click Import In Post By Email?, Can't get posts to publish automatically Options

[theothermelanie]

I have this set up on a Joomla 2.5 installation. Everything appears to be configured correctly: when I send an e-mail, I can go into Joomla and click Import and the mail is delivered and shows up on the site. However, my expectation was that the publishing part would happen automatically. In other words, I didn't think I'd have to go in and manually click "Import" each time I wanted my new posts to show up. "Publish Automatically" is set to yes. Is there something else that needs to be done?

Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated!

Melanie

[Web Design Seo]

Hello, theothermelanie.

Emails can be imported in two ways:
a) Manual - after click on button import
Automatically - over cronjob

To configure cronjob, please, read carefull Post by Email guide in forum.

[theothermelanie]

Thank you for pointing out that I needed to set up a Cron job. Since I am completely unfamiliar with those, I'm sure that's why I glossed over that part of your topic.

The basic setup area of my Cron job record calls for a URL. I have tried copying and pasting the string from your topic exactly as it appears:
curl -sS "http://your-post-by-email-site.com/administrator/components/com_post_by_email/cron.post_by_email.php" >> /dev/null

As well as just the URL:

Код

http://your-post-by-email-site.com/administrator/components/com_post_by_email/cron.post_by_email.php

And neither seems to work. Would you please clarify whether I need to include the "curl -sS" and ">> /dev/null" immediately before and after the URL?

What else might be keeping this from publishing automatically? Is there something else I can check? Everything else associated with Post by Email (importing of posts by clicking Import, for example) is working perfectly aside from the auto publishing...

Thanks again for the help!

Melanie

[Web Design Seo]

You must ask your host support 2 things:

1. Is curl working for your account?
2. If curl not wrok, you can use cron like this:

Код

/usr/local/bin/php -q /relative path to host directory/public_html/administrator/components/com_post_by_email/cron.post_by_email.php >> /dev/null

But again your host support must say you what is the right path "relative path to host directory".