Postie and WP Crontrol

  • Resolved sniexx

    (@sniexx)


    10 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    I have been using WP Crontrol for some time now and then added Postie. Now WP Crontrol doesn’t work anymore (I really need this to work because of backup). It stopped working when I set check for mail every 5 minutes. I tried deactivating both plugins and reactivating them, but problem is still there. I also tried set Postie to check for mail manually and it still doesn’t work.

    Is there any known incompatibilities using Postie with WP Crontrol plugin?

    Regards,
    Sniexx

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/postie/

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  • Plugin Author Wayne Allen

    (@wayneallen-1)

    There are no know incompatibilities. What happens if you delete Postie?

    Thread Starter sniexx

    (@sniexx)

    It seems to be a Crontrol problem, because when I deleted Postie, Crontrol didn’t work. Problems occurred when I activated Postie, that’s why I thought it’s Posties problem, but obviously it’s not.

    I had a problem with postie and WP Cron. Manual checking via postie settings panel worked OK, but WP Cron did not work, neither did accessing the URL <hostname>/wp-content/plugins/postie/get_mail.php. All I got was an HTTP 500 Internal server error.
    After lot’s of faffing about, I worked out that the get_mail.php file must have execute permissions, but my hosting environment does not give me console/command line access, and my desktop FTP application did not allow me to change the file permissions. I got around this by FTP’ing the get_mail.php file to my desktop then FTP’d it back to the web site cgi-bin directory, this automatically gave it execute permissions. I then used the FTP app to move the file from cgi-bin back to the postie plugin directory and it retained the execute permissions. After this I was able to execute get_mail from both a browser URL and WP Cron. Hurray. Postie also needs to be able to modify file permission during image upload, this was failing for me. I subsequently found that there was an entry in php.ini in the cgi-bin directory that disabled the chmod function (disable_function=chmod). I commented this out and now everything works perfectly. Hope this helps some others. It really shouldn’t be this difficult!

    Plugin Author Wayne Allen

    (@wayneallen-1)

    Thanks for letting us know.

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