Cron on intranet

trevor.smith

I have been asked to build a site that will be hosted on an intranet based server with no internet access. Will I be able to trigger sending using the server's cron?

Trevor

jvstratum

Hi,

Yes, you can setup a cron job on your own cron server. Please be aware that you need a valid subscription to be able to use the automatic send process that is triggered by the cron. Acymailing will check your license. If there's no connection available to check your license your send process will not run.

trevor.smith

OK, that's sad as there will be no external access. I will look for another solution.

regards
Trevor

avkeele

ACY 5 supports running a cron on the server itself. Not sure about ACY 6.

Regards,

Allen

trevor.smith

Since version 5.10.14 there needs to be a connection to AcyMailing to verify a valid licence in order to enable a local cron service.
Regards
Trevor

avkeele

Yeah, I saw other posts where ACY decided to take back what they already sold by locking down the cron to live subscriptions. That's not where it started, but that's where it is today.

Even with a license, I can't get cron to work right with ACY recently - after many years of it working fine. See https://forum.acymailing.com/d/1725-cron-works-sometimes.

In 2013, we originally moved our entire CRM to ZOHO since ACY supported ZOHO. Then ACY stopped supporting ZOHO by not updating to ZOHO's new API's, and now we're back with manual data transfer. ACY's explanation? "We decided it's not worth it." They still have ZOHO in the ACY 5, even though it cannot work with ZOHO any longer. They did not even bother to trim it out. We never migrated to ACY 6 since it continues to be "in development".

Now we can't even get our installation to recognize the valid and current license copied from our ACY account.

It is what it is.