Birthday mails

[Anonymous]

Great job implementing this option Franky 🙂
I tried to do a test (as well with the dev version earlier yesterday as with the production release yesterday evening) but I received no mail.

1) created birthday mail template
2) changed birthdate of test person to today, checked to send mails in person options
3) checked mail settings in the settings tab
4) checked test mail to see if SMTP still works (and it did ;)-) )

Any idea what I am missing? 🙂
Kind regards
Kevin

[Franky]

Did you activate the birthday email option? I ought to disable the per-person setting if that option is not enabled, but it is only a first implementation 🙂
See the setting in the “Other” tab

[Anonymous]

Yes, activated/deactivated, I was a little confused with “new members”
No luck yet, it works on your side?

[Franky]

It did in my original tests … I’ll try on one of my live sites

[Franky]

Well it works, but as I went through the code I saw I needed a small correction (only the removal of line 2378 is needed, but in your version the linenumber will be 2372):
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2707523/

Edit: check your “sent emails” in the EME “Email management” section, tab “sent emails”. And: birthday emails are sent when the cron for members runs: once a day at around midnight, but due to wordpress weird logic of a day having fixed 24 hours, it might be planned at 23:00 … so then your mail will arrive the end of the day (the next version will plan the cron a bit later to take that into account).
If you want to run the cron manually, feel free to do so.

[Franky]

And I just found another logic error: I in fact don’t check if people want a birthday email or not (but I checked the global setting wrongly as indicated above).
This fixes the sql:
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2707524/

[Franky]

To fix those small things, I released 2.2.71

[Anonymous]

Nice work Franky 🙂
Tested and worked
And for the cron job, I think I will change some things to separate the birthday mail.
Or just change the schedule of the job 😉
Thanks a lot for the quick responses (late at night 😉 )

[Franky]

The latest version (2.2.71) changes the cronjobs a bit (to start at 01:00 and not midnight), that should take care of summer/wintertime issues too

[Anonymous]

Hi Franky,

can it be that there are two schedules activated? I think two mails are sent, concerning the email management overview in EME.

17/04/2022 1:05 AM 17/04/2022 1:58 AM
17/04/2022 1:43 AM 17/04/2022 1:58 AM

Or am I mistaken? 🙂
kind regards,
Kevin

[Franky]

The schedule runs only once a day. So maybe check (with a plugin) the WP schedules, search for “eme_cron_daily_actions”.

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