Hi, I have several lists created, and have very specific filters defined for each. My question is, if I have new subscribers that meet the filtering criteria, how do they get added to the proper lists without re-defining all of the filtering criteria again?

For example, say I have a list set up for people in a specific country. I subscribe those users and come up with a bunch and send out the newsletter.

A month later, more people have registered in that country and I now want them added to the previous list as well. Do I need to enter the filtering criteria again and subscribe users to the list all over again or are the filtering criteria stored with the list?

Thanks for your help!

Kyle

Hello Kyle,

For now you will have to trigger again the filters manually but we already planned to be able to trigger filters automatically to handle this sort of cases.
That will be integrated in AcyMailing Enterprise.

Great, thanks ... in the meantime, I'm thinking we might be able to write a script that runs in a cronjob to insert users into the acymailing_subscriber and acymailing_listsub for those matching users and that way they'd be updated nightly and users could then just send to those pre-created lists. Does that make sense? Do you have sql that we should use to insert these records (though it looks straightforward enough).

Thanks again

Yes, it's exactly what the automatic filtering feature will do.

The user should be already inserted in the table acymailing_subscriber so you only have to fill the table acymailing_listsub, with the listid, the subid and the status "1".

Hi,
I do have the enterprise version and I have tried to set this up without success. I have created the filters to add users to various lists (they work when I click on the "process" button). I have enabled them to work on the cron. I have setup the cron job to 15 minutes. The cron works in terms of triggering scheduled mails, but it does not trigger my filters.
I have Joomla 1.5.20
The latest version of ACY Mailing
PHP 5

From the posts above, I can see this is a new feature. Is it working properly yet? Are there any server settings that could be affecting this process? What can I try?

I must just add that this is without a doubt the best mailing component available for Joomla and possibly one of the best Joomla components on the market.

Hello,

The filters are automatically executed only once a day via the cron task, not more often.
That may explain why you don't have them working every 15 minutes.


It's indeed a feature we recently implemented but it's already working fine.

Hi,
Well, once a day would be fine. I even suspected this might be the case. I will wait a full 24 hours and see if they are automatically triggered. Is that 24 hours from when it is created or does the cron run at a specific time of the day?

Could I create my own cron to trigger these filters more often and if so, some direction please?
thanks

It's every 24 hours at a fixed time on the day which depends on the time you installed AcyMailing... there is no way for now to know exactly when it will executed (I will add it to our interface for ease of use)


No, the filters are locked to be triggered only once a day.
But you may want to launch the filter on other events (On user creation, on user modification...)