Question
Email now working with a cron job
- Posted February 20, 2014
Hey all, really having a hard time figuring out what the hell is going on here.
I have setup my droplet to send emails through an SMTP server that is running microsoft exchange.
I have a PHP script that will send an email using mail() and it works fine if I open that script in a browser.
The problem arises when I set up a cron job to trigger that script. Then it doesn’t send.
And worse yet, it doesn’t send to only certain email addresses.
Once again, if I open the same file in a browser, it works fine.
To troubleshoot, I’ve removed everything in the php script except for the mail() line. It still has the same issue.
When I check the mail log, this is what I get:
Feb 20 01:11:32 <my hostname> sm-mta[17139]: s1JNS1Rl014657: to=<Email I’m Sending To>, delay=01:43:31, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=840740, relay=ms15341115.msv1.invalid.outlook.com., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with ms15341115.msv1.invalid.outlook.com.
Any ideas on where to go next?
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You might consider webcron services like easycron.com which will load a specific URL at a given time.
If the PHP script file works then it might be the cron I would assume. Is there a was you can share the cron config and file ?
No Ideas?
Bad title, sorry. Should be Email “Not” working obv.