how to solve this?

mistercash60000

Well this is what I want to do:

I want every day send a mail with news in it from that day.
I have looked on this forum and have seen that you can run auto a script with CRON.

Now the problem come:
I have hired a host where my website is running on.
I went to their homepage and looked for cron.
Then I saw that only the users with 100mb packets can have cron activated.
Well I have a 60mb packet. So I can't run Cron.

Do you guys know if there is another way to send auto a mail every day?
without that I have to push a certain button.

Thanks in advance

eoghain

If you aren't concerned about when the email get's sent out, and you get hits daily on your site you could have a little script that checks to see if the mail has been sent when someone connects to your page and if not it kicks off the process to send the mail.

mistercash60000

now I think about something
the news is about people submit something like news or so.
and when there nobody submit some news there isn't also news to send.
Well I will have to write a script then when someone enters the webpage that it sends a mail.
Thanks will give it a try.

PS: isn't there a way to send it auto?

eoghain

You can't send it automatically if you don't have access to CRON.

travelbuff

My suggestion is to find a new host 😉 Cron is a pretty basic service in my book.....

dave420

Have the mailing script sitting on the server, in the web document root. In the script, put security (ie limit remote addresses that can access the script, ask for user/password/ssl, whatever).

Now, all you need is one machine to access that server to trigger the sending of messages. That can be a PC anywhere, even your home PC with a windows scheduled task. That way, the cron can sit anywhere, but the work is still done on your web host.

mistercash60000

hmm that seems more the thing that I was looking for.

Gonna try that.

I just have to put a mail script on my host.
then on my homepc I have to make a task for every day that it goes to that page.

seems very simple gonna check it out.
Thanks for helping me out