Title: Postie not checking automatically
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Postie not checking automatically

 *  Resolved [jknox65](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jknox65/)
 * (@jknox65)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-not-checking-automatically/)
 * Postie is not checking on its own to the set time frame of 5 minutes. I can manually
   run an successful test. I can manually run the mail check but it seems to not
   automatically check.
 * Any suggestions?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/postie/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/postie/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/)
 * (@wayneallen-1)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-not-checking-automatically/#post-6026838)
 * Please take a look at [http://postieplugin.com/faq/postie-checking-email/](http://postieplugin.com/faq/postie-checking-email/)
 *  Thread Starter [jknox65](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jknox65/)
 * (@jknox65)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-not-checking-automatically/#post-6026842)
 * Okay thanks and I did run this
    [http://linncountygop.org/?postie=get-mail](http://linncountygop.org/?postie=get-mail)
 * and I get the following which is good. but It is not automating…
 * Starting mail fetch
    Postie is in /webroot/l/i/linnc001/linncountygop.org/www/
   wp-content/plugins/postie/ Cron: On Alternate Cron: Off iconv: installed imap:
   installed mbstring: installed There are 0 messages to process Mail fetch complete,
   0 emails
 *  Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/)
 * (@wayneallen-1)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-not-checking-automatically/#post-6026863)
 * You need to set up a cron job as described in the article.
 *  Thread Starter [jknox65](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jknox65/)
 * (@jknox65)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-not-checking-automatically/#post-6026934)
 * Is it not set up via the settings?
 * to continue developing Postie for the WordPress community.
 * _[Please use a pastebin for long error logs –
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum\_Welcome#Posting\_Large\_Excerpt\_of\_Code](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Large_Excerpt_of_Code)]
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-not-checking-automatically/#post-6026935)
 * Could you please repost that to a pastebin –
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Large_Excerpt_of_Code](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Large_Excerpt_of_Code)
 *  Thread Starter [jknox65](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jknox65/)
 * (@jknox65)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-not-checking-automatically/#post-6026936)
 * Sorry essentially it is set to check every 5 minutes. so what more do I need 
   to do?
 * You said set up a cron as per the article but I ma unsure of what article your
   speaking of.
 *  Thread Starter [jknox65](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jknox65/)
 * (@jknox65)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-not-checking-automatically/#post-6026937)
 * never mind I had a brain fart I set up the techy one…
 *  Plugin Author [Wayne Allen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wayneallen-1/)
 * (@wayneallen-1)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/postie-not-checking-automatically/#post-6026940)
 * Glad you have it figured out.

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