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Hi Mark a quick question before I decide if I need to change to using a system Cron for sending digests.

Your faq says that a PHP cron occurs when traffic hits the forum, is this any traffic or just logged in traffic.

Can I just use an automated server to access www.site/phpBB3/index.php and ignore the page that comes back ?

Thanks, Bill

ACP traffic does not count. It has to be HTTP traffic, so a ping won't do it. It doesn't matter if it is logged in traffic or not.

You could use a site monitoring service as long as it uses a HTTP monitor and goes to a valid page like the index. In this case do not change the server settings saying you are using a system cron.

Thanks Mark, I use my own designed and programmed IOT devices that monitor conditions and periodically report them to an HTTP server, so I can just add some code to access the phpBB3 index page every 15 minutes.

Thanks again for a great extension.

Bill