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TopThu, 02 Nov 2006
Nov 02, 2006, 07:45
[home/webdesign/perl_scripts/autofollowup] Dennis Wicks contributed the following morsel of information to share with the AFU community. (AFU is my Auto FollowUp software, for automatically sending emails at regular intervals to clients and prospects). The crontab entry for sending messages every 10 minutes is: 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * $HOME/bin/run_afu.sh >> $HOME/run_cgi.log This logs the output from the cron job to $HOME/run_cgi.log so cron doesn’t object about not knowing what to do with the generated output. Some systems send email to the owning user and some just refuse to run, so it is insurance of a sort, and reduces the size of your inbox. The shell script $HOME/bin/run_afu.sh Actually does the work. #!/bin/bash Full path names are used throughout because cron doesn’t provide a very useful environment so it is easier to just point it where you know things are at and save a lot of debugging time. Thanks Dennis! ~Jason
AFU CRON Jobs Explained
cd $HOME/public_html/cgi-bin/afu
echo - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
echo Starting at: `date`
run.cgi
echo
echo Finished at: `date`
This gives us some information about what is going on and when. It also tells me that on my system it takes less than a minute to send out 100 emails of typical size.
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Wed, 05 May 2004
May 05, 2004, 00:59
[home/webdesign/perl_scripts/autofollowup] I finally finished implementing the JavaScript WYSIWYG email draft section in Auto FollowUp. I think I’ve tracked all the bugs down, so I’ll make it available on Intelliscript.net soon. This feels like such a big deal. This has been on my task list for over a year! Can you tell I’m really excited? Lots of cool programming breakthroughs lately! ~Jason
JavaScript Emails
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Mon, 08 Mar 2004
Mar 08, 2004, 20:55
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New Version of AFU Available
I’ve just completed adding some requested features and fixing a couple of bugs in Auto FollowUp, including the Admin script.
Some changes:
1. Allows you to hide the list names from subscribers if you wish to (done from Global Variables)
2. Validates the list name in case user types it wrong or doesn’t include it in the URL.
3. Setup includes an environment variables section for novices who don’t know their server well
4. Minor changes in set up page explanations.
5. Leap year bug fixed (will only work for a hundred years or so though— sorry) I haven’t been able to duplicate this bug, so if it’s still not working, please let me know.
6. Fixed a OneTimer issue with no sender name or to name included with the email address.
7. Renamed the temporary lists for OneTimers from temp_listname to onetimer_listname.
8. Modified the one timer to send tomorrow by default. This can be changed after email is drafted. It gives you a chance to double check your copy etc., before the script begins sending.
9. If plugins do not exist, the link to the mailing list script is replaced with a link to the plugins on Intelliscript.net— not a bug, but some people thought it was. It’s much more elegant this way anyway.
If there are other issues I need to know about, please tell me.
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Fri, 05 Mar 2004
Mar 05, 2004, 09:20
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Bug Found In AFU
I found out yesterday that there’s a leap year bug in Auto FollowUp.
If you send out daily messages with AFU, then it will break in leap years. I’ll be uploading a fix to this script to Intelliscript.net.
My own version of the ‘millenial bug!’ haha,
If you want a temporary fix for the script, go to the subroutine calculate_elapsed_days, around line 193 (this sub is in both run.pl and auto_followup.pl). Make adjustments by one day for each of the twelve months, and change the year value to 366.
This fix will stop working in January of 2005, so you’ll need to get the updated script when it comes out.
~Jason
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Fri, 14 Feb 2003
Feb 14, 2003, 12:58
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Finished
OK, I’m finished the pop subscribe feature! COOL! I’m putting it up for sale in two days. Look for it Monday for $24.95. If you buy it now, I’ll sell all the plugins including this PopCheck script for $14.95, so you save $10. It’s worth it!
~Jason
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