Hey Wesley,

To be honestly, I am not familiar with Admin tools.

Perhaps you can try check what your server return the response after cron run? (It will show you setup the cronjob is it working or is it blocked by admin tools security)

To check this, you can insert your email address in your cronjob configuration page > `CronMail` .

I got the Cron working, thanks for the tip about sending an email when the job runs. So, Admin Tools has no effect. I assume I do not need to set "Send email when the page loads " to Yes in the General > Settings > Maintenance option provided the Cron job is running.

Furthermore, I suspect that using this option slows down performance of the site for the end user while the job runs and reloads the page, thus the Cron job is a better method.

Regards,
Wesley

Hey Wesley,

Yep, that is correct. You can turn off the option "send email when the page loads" now, because you already have the cronjob taking care of that. Yep, cronjobs are the only way to go because when sending emails, Joomla actually needs to communicate with the respective mail server and these are normally bottlenecks that anyone would want to queue!