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Originally Posted by fustanella

It's great, that's what is is.

I am delighted with this; thank you! It was painless to install, worked both inbound and out the first time without fiddling, and adds a handy new service for my members.

I would like to find a way to automate the gateway.php calls under WinNT 4, though. I understand the concept of 'cron' but don't see how this maps directly over, other than through "Scheduled Tasks" - specifically, how I can run the PHP script either in a browser window that closes when done, or without the need for a browser at all.

(Anyone who has insights on my related question of importing text files as vB3 messages is welcome to chime in as well, over at https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=66250 - thanks.)

On Windows create a scheduled task.
Create a new task. When the box pops up browse to php.exe. The full path should show for the exe.
You should see something like
C:\Inetpub\php\php.exe
or whatever the path to php.exe is. At the end of that add the path to gateway.php. When done you should have something like
C:\Inetpub\php\php.exe C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\gateway.php
Now go to advanced and set it to run every 15 minutes for 23 hours and 59 minutes. Click OK and when the password box comes up put in your administartor password.
You now should have a scheduled task called php.exe. Open scheduled task folder and right click the task and run it. A DOS box should popup as it runs. If the box pops up and disapears right away then try to run the task command from a dos prompt. By doing this you'll see what the problem is. More than likely bad path.