Hello Steve Gordonson,

Sorry for late reply to this,
"Send mail on page load" option mean is when you load your frontend page, the system only send out the email notification to your user. (also depend on how many email you set from your backend)
If i'm not wrong, i believe that you haven't set up the cronjob yet, so the system can't automatically to send out the notification on time.
If you would like to set the cronjob, please provide us with your Joomla backend, FTP access, Cpanel access so we can help you configure it, Please advise.

Which frontend page should load?..the page on which the blog was published?..or just the site in general.

So if i understand correctly, when the blog is published, we should immediately load that page on a browser for the emails to go out?..

Is there a phone number i can talk to someone about this?

Hello Steve Gordonson,

Sorry for late reply to this,
Yes, you can load any page in your site
If you setting is configure the "Process how many emails at a time -> 5 email" -> http://screencast.com/t/ma4SZnlxGq0

Mean when you publishing a blog post in your site, then all the email notification will be pending in your email activity, then you load any page in your site 1 time, then the system will process the 5 email. (This is called manually sent email notification)

If you would like to make the email notification automatically sent out, what you should do is set up the cronjob in your Cpanel.
Set up cronjob in Easyblog documentation -> http://stackideas.com/docs/easyblog/how-tos/setting-up-cronjobs-in-cpanel

Hope this help.

I really don't understand the option "Process how many emails at a time -> 5 email"

Why is this?? Does it mean when someone writes a blog this blog will be posted 5 times?? And if so why? Or will there be send 5 mails to 5 mailaddresses?
I realy don't get why one blog should be posted 5 times.

I have set up easyblog with and without cronjob.

With the cronjob : /usr/bin/wget -O domains/<domainname>/public_html/logs/easyblogcron.log "http://<domainname>/index.php?option=com_easyblog&task=cron" Only the log file will be updated, but no mail will be send. At least not after 5 minutes... or should i be patient and am i , for example , the 19th person who gets a mail? And so after about 20 minutes ( 4 x 5 minutes) i will receive my mail?

Without the cronjob and the option Send emails on page load on we are overwelmed with mails..... so people unsubcribe....

Don't get me wrong i really like Easyblog but this part ...... i don't get the meaning of it.

Please can someone explain this in simple words.

Hello Mark Govaerts,

Sorry for late reply to this and make you felt some confusing here,

With the cronjob : /usr/bin/wget -O domains/<domainname>/public_html/logs/easyblogcron.log "http://<domainname>/index.php?option=com_easyblog&task=cron"; Only the log file will be updated, but no mail will be send. At least not after 5 minutes... or should i be patient and am i , for example , the 19th person who gets a mail? And so after about 20 minutes ( 4 x 5 minutes) i will receive my mail?

Do you mean that the cronjob is not working now? You should follow this cron command format :

/usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null "http://domainname/index.php?option=com_easyblog&task=cron"‏

What Process how many emails at a time mean is when one blog post published, the system will notify which user should be get the email notification then all the state is pending mode, check my screenshot below.

If you set "Process how many emails at a time -> 5 email" and you set your cronjob run every 5 minute, that mean when you published a blog post : Example
-> the system should sent the email notification to 20 users
-> every 5 minute cron run, the system will process 5 pending email to send to 5 user
Hope this explanation is more clearly for you.

Hi Arlex,

thanks for the quick reply.

You're explantion makes it clear. Already thought so but now i'm convinced it works that way.

This morning we tested a couple of posts and they are received in steps to everyone who needs it and they received the mails only ones.

Thanks!!

Hello Mark Govaerts,

You're welcome, hope we can help much you here
If need further assistance please refer back to us.