Hi alexander,

Perhaps you can try download this free extension for configure the cronjob in your site
-> http://www.extly.com/utilities/jprc-cronjobs.html

After you downloaded, then install from your Joomla backend and start configure a new cron
-> http://screen.stackideas.com/2015-03-24_1957.png

The last step, edit the $host inside /components/com_easysocial/cron.php with site your domain name

Hope this help.

Hi it was much easier I just to put this command (found in the documentation) into a file and choose it to execute in the Cronjob of my hosting provider. Can you tell me what do I need to choose in the admin panel of easy social, do I need to activate any settings? Because there is a setting about secret Cronjob, what do I choose in there. Please and how do I change the command if that option is activated

/bin/wget -O /dev/null "http://site.com/index.php?option=com_easysocial&cron=true";

Thank you very much

Hello Alexander.

You're welcome. Have a nice day

Hi guys,
I'm sorry for the stupid question but how can i know that cronjob is working....

Hello Alexander.

It's actually just a task scheduler on most linux / unix environment.

Why do we need cronjobs?

Because processing emails are always slow. When there are hundreds of emails to be processed at a time, the server needs to contact the respective mail servers to deliver the mail. However, the process for each delivery might differ from time to time and this would result in higher bounce rate of users on your site.

Consider this scenario:

John posted a comment on an update which has 10,000 previous comments. To deliver 10,000 emails as soon as you post a comment would take more than an hour. Would you want your user's to wait?


Hope this help