I built a form for a nonprofit where vendors can apply for a spot at a fundraiser. Once approved, an email is sent to them with a bill and a due date to mail in a check. It all works great! :)
What I'd like to do now is AUTOMATICALLY send them a reminder email if the due date has passed without payment.
Is it possible to trigger cfmail to do this in cold fusion? I've searched all over but can't find anything that even comes close.
The same code you develop that detects "Oh, it's been 10 days past the due date" (likely with a scheduled task to query for unpaid invoices where today-date > 10 or whatever), would send the email based on the results.
You'll need a scheduled task to check at least once a day, and issue emails as appropriate. I'm not entirely sure how you would "know" the date has passed and they haven't paid... If that's with Coldfusion, send the email at detection time. Also log, somewhere, that you've sent the late notice, so you don't send it every day thereafter! You might want 30,60,90 emails, then some form of disabling of account afterwards.
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my app has list of events with start time (date and time). I want to make a scheduled task to send reminder via email to all user participate in event 1 hour before event start. (Note: Admin can change time of event).
I currently use celery to send email to list of participants when admin change the time of event.
Please suggest me some solution for this. Thanks.
Here's a recent(ish) discussion where a potential solution is proposed for celery: https://github.com/celery/celery/issues/4522.
I built Posthook to make solving these kinds of problems easier for developers. In your case, when a new event is created or the event time changes you can schedule a request back to your app for 1 hour before the start time. Then when you get the request from Posthook you can send out the reminder after validating that it still needs to be sent out.
We're doing everything we can think of to limit the number of complaints we receive and will immediately remove anyone who marks us as junk that does not need to receive our emails. However, the last handful of complaints we've received have come from transactional emails of people who are receiving our company's services and NEED to receive everything we send transactionally as a critical part of our service. (e.g. We are booking their travel on their behalf and we need to send them verification emails to confirm their booking details.)
We're assuming that most of these complaints are somehow either false positives or are being done on accident. One customer confirmed that they did not click the junk mail button but it ended up in their junk folder and they moved it to their inbox. Some questions:
Can a TiS complaint be triggered by any means other than the user manually marking an email as junk in their email client? (Can automatic spam filters trigger this complaint? AWS documentation specifies only clicking the junk button.)
Besides contacting each individual personally, what would you suggest we do? Our complaint rate is continuing to rise even though we are taking action on every one.
I want to ask about the situation that is related to the renaming of a user by an administrator. It can take up to 10 minutes (from the disclaimer) to get user's name changed, but the notification about update event is sent immediately. There is no way to understand whether user's data is changed or not at the moment when notification is received. The only way to process it correctly is to delay processing by 10 minutes which is not good for me.
Is there something that I've missed to handle this? Otherwise it is quite useless API.
I am noticing AWS SES stats are not being updated in real-time. After sending email, it takes time for sent count to increase on SES Dashboard. Sometimes it takes few minutes and sometimes it takes long.
Has anyone also experienced this? Any thoughts?
On the assumption that the console is simply making a call to a standard API action (rather than using some kind a console-only backend service that is not documented or user-accessible -- such things are not unheard-of, but are pretty rare in AWS, so it's a reasonably safe assumption), it looks like this is not really designed to be real-time. The stats are reported in 15 minute windows.
From the SES API reference:
GetSendStatistics
Returns the user's sending statistics. The result is a list of data points, representing the last two weeks of sending activity.
Each data point in the list contains statistics for a 15-minute interval.
— http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/APIReference/API_GetSendStatistics.html
AWS/SES dashboard stats are for pure hint performace but not to rely on them. In such case, if you want to have real time notifications of sent emails you will need to create SNS notifications. Keep in mind that Spam-Complaint notifications can take up to a couple of days as this is based on information provided by the ISP to Amazon. And complaints within the Gmail evil-system will NEVER get to you.
When I create a ToDo(or an event), and activate the "Send Notification" box, and set a future date for it to begin(for example in two days), I receive the email notification instantly(VTiger doesn't wait for the date to arrive to send it).
I've tried to find answers by myself and online, but I haven't been able to solve it. Mi cron is working OK, and I have my correct timezone configured in config.inc.php.
I'm using Vtiger CRM 6.2.0.
Do you have any idea of why this is happening, or what can I do to find out or solve it?
Thanks for your time!
It seems that this is the correct way in which VTiger works. Send notification tells the user that a ToDo was created and assigned to him.
Im not sure how can I email a user when a task is due.