@@ -56,4 +56,11 @@ You may want to set these up via cron to run regularly:: This attempts to send mail every minute with a retry on failure every 20 minutes. ``manage.py send_mail`` uses a lock file in case clearing the queue takes -longer than the interval between calling ``manage.py send_mail``. \ No newline at end of file +longer than the interval between calling ``manage.py send_mail``. + +Note that if your project lives inside a virtualenv, you also have to execute +this command from the virtualenv. The same, naturally, applies also if you're +executing it with cron. The `Pinax documentation`_ explains that in more +details. + +.. _pinax documentation: http://pinaxproject.com/docs/dev/deployment.html#sending-mail-and-notices docs/usage.txt 22739b42f613c84da3f59ef7586a8e02d8662403 Horst Gutmann zerok@zerokspot.com http://github.com/brosner/django-mailer/commit/8af3fac9bd39d31f00d2244a1e85c9f85a4d3159 8af3fac9bd39d31f00d2244a1e85c9f85a4d3159 2009-07-25T20:28:49-07:00 2009-05-07T14:27:58-07:00 Added a back-reference to the Pinax deployment task regarding running send_mail. Signed-off-by: James Tauber <jtauber@jtauber.com> ba191b494ab10fa8c63884f46aed5b1d110e5850 James Tauber jtauber@jtauber.com