I'm new to django and I've installed django-mailer 2.0. It's working when I manually send the queued mails: (venv)$ python manage.py send_mail, but when I set up the crontab (which is the first time I use a cron job), it's not working. I guess there might be some mistakes in the paths.
Official documentation of django-mailer suggests:
* * * * * (/path/to/your/python /path/to/your/manage.py send_mail >> ~/cron_mail.log 2>&1)
Mine:
# first I tried:
* * * * * (/usr/bin/python3 /Users/username/Documents/GitHub/projectname/manage.py send_mail >> ~/cron_mail.log 2>&1)
# then I tried:
* * * * * (/Users/username/Documents/GitHub/projectname/venv/bin/python /Users/username/Documents/GitHub/projectname/manage.py send_mail >> ~/cron_mail.log 2>&1)
# also this:
* * * * * cd /Users/username/Documents/GitHub/projectname; venv/bin/python manage.py send_mail
# I've tried Romeo's solution as well
None is working.. Help please!
However, when I use exactly the same command in bash, it works:
$ cd /Users/username/Documents/GitHub/projectname
$ venv/bin/python manage.py send_mail
this works indeed! I'm utterly confused...
PS. about django-mailer: I manually sent 4 queued emails each to 2 email addresses, however, 2 got missing never delivered (not lost in junk mails either). Is this normal?
What you can try is to change to the directory where the code is located and then run it:
* * * * * cd /Users/username/Documents/GitHub/projectname; /usr/bin/python3 manage.py send_mail >> /Users/username/cron_mail.log 2>&1
Also is better to use absolute paths in cron. And add this in script plus import your environment variables.:
#!/bin/bash
source /Users/username/.bash_profile #or .bashrc
cd /Users/username/Documents/GitHub/projectname
venv/bin/python manage.py send_mail >> /Users/username/cron_mail.log 2>&1
and then make the script executable:
chmod +rx script.sh
and add it in cron:
* * * * * /path/to/script.sh