Scheduled Mailing Oddities

 
From: "Bruce Harper bharper@PROTECTED [Dada Mail Developers]" <dadadev@PROTECTED>
Date: March 16th 2016
We send out every Wednesday an email for students (with a second list for public subscribers). Both lists were deactivated on the schedule last week since it was spring break. When I reactivated the lists to start again today (Wed., March 16) I set the start date to 2016-03-16 and time to 02:15:00; same for the public version except with a 03:15:00 start. There is a cron job set to run every weekday at 2:15 a.m. to kick of several list mailings, including the student list (plus one at 3:15). However, neither of the lists started sending and had to be sent manually.

According to the cron log:

Running Schedules for, vtstudent
------------------------------------------------------------------------
        * Current Server Time: Wed Mar 16 02:15:00 2016
        * Scheduled Mass Mailings Last Ran: Wed Mar 16 01:16:19 2016
        * 1 Schedule(s)

                * Subject: Message

                This is a *Recurring* mass mailing, between 
                2016-03-16 and 2016-05-11
                on: Wednesday, 
                at: 02:15:00

                * No Scheduled Mailing needs to be sent out.

Same result an hour later:

Running Schedules for, vtstudentO
------------------------------------------------------------------------
        * Current Server Time: Wed Mar 16 03:15:01 2016
        * Scheduled Mass Mailings Last Ran: Wed Mar 16 02:15:00 2016
        * 1 Schedule(s)

                * Subject: Message

                This is a *Recurring* mass mailing, between 
                2016-03-16 and 2016-05-11
                on: Wednesday, 
                at: 03:15:00

                * No Scheduled Mailing needs to be sent out.

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So the question is, even though the date and time were set and matched the scheduled time, why didn't the system send the messages? Is this a bug or an issue with how dates are interpreted? 

Bruce in Blacksburg
Virginia Tech Webmaster

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