Hey shoulders,

Yep, and you should use a cronjob as it is much better. You may find the documentation links for cronjobs below:

https://stackideas.com/docs/easyblog/administrators/cronjobs

https://stackideas.com/docs/komento/administrators/cronjobs

Hi

this tells me how to set them up but not why.

1) What does it do? p.s. I understand what a cronjob is and how they work.....
2) Can you clarify where in Komento and easyblog the cron job message comes up.

Thansk

Jon

1) What does it do? p.s. I understand what a cronjob is and how they work.....

In short, sending e-mails is a long process and it requires your server to communicate with the recipient's e-mail server. Sending one e-mail is perfectly fine but imagine sending it to 500 recipients because you have 500 subscribers.

Two main issues for not utilizing cronjobs:

1. The only way to dispatch e-mails is when someone accesses the component area (either EasyBlog or Komento). Imagine having 5000 pending e-mails and you do not have the sufficient traffic to these pages. Those e-mails would stuck in the queue.

2. Even if you have sufficient traffic, it would cause delays when anyone accesses these pages because your mail server would need to communicate to the recipient's mail server.

2) Can you clarify where in Komento and easyblog the cron job message comes up.

Not sure what do you mean here eh?

thanks for clarifying the cron is for sending out emails.

The only reason I know that komento and easyblog needs a cron is because I found this in an old text dodument.

/bin/wget -O /dev/null "https://example.com/index.php?option=com_komento&task=cron"

How would a new easyblog or komento user know they need to configure a cron?

Hm, not sure what do you mean here but you can always check in your control panel to see if a cronjob has been created for EasyBlog or Komento

let me clarify.

1. I am an average joomla user, I have just set up joomla on my host
   
2. I buy easyblog
   
3. I go throught the easyblog control panel and configure everything
   

Where am I notified that i need to setup a cron job?

How would i know how to setup a cron job?

brilliant

just one daft question where would I find that option to send emails on page load. I will add that to my mini instructions.

We don't recommend enabling send e-mails on page load but if you really need to:

EasyBlog: http://take.ms/9jJzD

Komento: http://take.ms/r0KBw

no worries. I needeed to know where the settings were. I will be setting up a cron.

thanks for the excellent support. I noticed the time.

You are most welcome