[MM3-users] Re: mailman3 digest sending questions and also adding docker to the mix

Steve Brown wrote on 2024-04-16 15:53:

My understanding is that "yes" to Send Digest Periodically is supposed to send digests daily even if the threshold size is not reached.

Hi Steve,

As Jered said, it's probably to do with the cron job setting.

User mailman should have a crontab entry something like this:

@daily /opt/mailman/venv/bin/mailman digests --periodic

Running mailman digests -h seems to indicate that should work if done daily, but if there's a problem (bug?), then maybe an entry with

mailman digests --list $list_name --send

would force the digests to be sent?

mailman digests -h

   -l, --list list  Operate on this mailing list.  Multiple --list
                    options can be given.  The argument can either be a
                    List-ID or a fully qualified list name.  Without this
                    option, operate on the digests for all mailing lists.
   -s, --send       Send any collected digests right now, even if the
                    size threshold has not yet been met.
...
   -v, --verbose    Print some additional status.
   -p, --periodic   Send any collected digests for the List only if their
                    digest_send_periodic is set to True.

rb