Perfect, I can't wait. Thank you! :)

edit: hmm, I just completed a full synchronize on my test forum and it again didn't add any words to the Search Index. I had to manually "Rebuild Search Index" to get the forum searchable.

yet another edit: Ah, I just noticed that outgoing email is on timelimit.yourserver.com, so I changed it in something else ;)

I'm testing this in one of the many test newsgroups and noticed some strange behavior. Right now I'm not receiving any of the posts I made with Outlook Express on my forum while Outlook Express does show all the posts I created or replied to via the forum.

I changed the lastmsg to 0, pruned all the posts, reset the counters and started importing but now it only imports 52 of 262 posts. I've tried this with gateway.php from gateway_Mar2.zip and also after making the adjustment listed here:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=759 (only applied the "regulating the # of messages to download on each pass" change).

Any chance of getting it to log the output? I have it set to run in the Scheduled Tasks window twice every hour.

The weird thing is that when I post on an existing thread and run the scheduled task manually (via RUN NOW), most post hits the USENET forum just fine.

I'm trying to figure it out, but without a log of the error when it occurs, it is hard.

I'll check out the verbose output, thanks.

I run it as a crontab every ten minutes and redirect the output to a text file - it logs just fine, but I don't know how you'd do it using vB's scheduled task interface.

I point the scheduled task to the filename...perhaps this is the problem.

It seems like it should work though.

I use this as the filename: ./includes/cron/gateway.php

And, I just place my gateway.php in that folder.

It does seem to be related to me running it manually or not. Maybe I'll see if I can get my host to run it as a cron tab.

--jim

It'll work as a scheduled task but there's no way I can think of to redirect the output to a log file using vB - at least I don't think there is.

The way I do it isThe single angle bracket in the first instance overwrites the old file and the double brackets just append data to the existing file - so my log is overwritten every hour. If you want to keep more log than that you could set a daily, weekly or monthly cron job to overwrite the log instead of doing it once every hour.

Some hosts will let you set up your own cron jobs - it might be worth a look ;)

What am I doing wrong? I put the counter on 0, pruned every post, and only get 7 threads/10 posts.

Hey, I just logged into my Control Panel at my host (f5hosting) and noticed I have access to make my own cron tab.

Evidently, it emails me the results.

Do I need to change this line of code to make sure it has the content Im looking for?

if ($log != 'cron'){
echo $message;
flush;
}

I dunno, jcrash. I didn't change mine :)

The 'forum post' thingies are telling you the post is already in the forum database.

Set the counter to zero and prune *all* posts out of the forum. If you're already running the script as a cron job, disable the cron until you've got the forum populated.