Chuck Johnson wrote:

I am curious if anyone has found a way to specify the time(s) that the digest message is sent rather than depending upon a size condition being met?

I'm thinking that it can be done via a cron job and a mailman command, but I'm not familiar enough with the mailman specific commands to know if it is possible or not.

A standard Mailman installation runs several cron jobs either via a 'system' crontab or the Mailman user's crontab. One of these jobs is cron/senddigests which by default runs at noon for all lists.

cron/senddigests sends a digest for every list whose Digest options -> digest_send_periodic is Yes and which has messages pending for the digest.

If you want only periodic digests, set digest_send_periodic to Yes and set digest_size_threshhold large enough that you don't get digests triggered on size in between.

You can edit Mailman's crontab to run cron/senddigests on any schedule you want, and if you want different schedules for different lists, you can specify one or more list names for cron/senddigests with one or more -l LISTNAME options and have multiple commands run on different schedules for different lists.

-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

Chuck Johnson wrote:

I am curious if anyone has found a way to specify the time(s) that the digest message is sent rather than depending upon a size condition being met?

I'm thinking that it can be done via a cron job and a mailman command, but I'm not familiar enough with the mailman specific commands to know if it is possible or not.

A standard Mailman installation runs several cron jobs either via a 'system' crontab or the Mailman user's crontab. One of these jobs is cron/senddigests which by default runs at noon for all lists.

cron/senddigests sends a digest for every list whose Digest options -> digest_send_periodic is Yes and which has messages pending for the digest.

If you want only periodic digests, set digest_send_periodic to Yes and set digest_size_threshhold large enough that you don't get digests triggered on size in between.

You can edit Mailman's crontab to run cron/senddigests on any schedule you want, and if you want different schedules for different lists, you can specify one or more list names for cron/senddigests with one or more -l LISTNAME options and have multiple commands run on different schedules for different lists.

-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan