This type of cron jobs works by simply opening your Joomla site periodically. So it basically means a program browses the URL of your site.
The (sub-)URL of the cron job is not important, as Mailster is working during the pageload, and the content of the loaded page itself is not interesting.
Don’t slow down your visitors!
You want to point a lazy cron job always to the admin login screen (/administrator) to avoid too much traffic / false page hit statistics. If you have setup your cron job to point to the login screen, then you can change the Trigger Source in Mailster’s settings to “Backend only”.
This avoids your regular site visitors having to wait longer for a page to load because Mailster is sending an email in the background …
So, in short: set up the cron job to use the URL like https://your-site.com/administrator/index.php (replace https://your-site.com with your address).
Please read our separate section on where to enter the cron URL.
If you have use a cron job targeted at your admin/login screen you can also avoid page load delays for your site visitors. This can be done by setting the system plugin “Mailster Email Forwarder”, which is responsible for retrieving/sending emails, to only execute by pages browsed in the backend.
The setting can be changed here:
- Navigate in Joomla’s backend to the Plugin Manager (System > Plugins)
- Find the system plugin “Mailster Email Forwarder” (Note: this is not the content plugin “Mailster Subscriber”)
- Search for the setting “Trigger Source“:
- Change the setting to “Backend activity only“:
