OpenGoo is in my opinion the best Project management software out there. Seriously, go try it out. Software doesn’t get much better!

One thing that I have been stuffing around with though is getting OpenGoo to send out reminders through a cron job. This page on the OpenGoo wiki goes through the fine details, however I was getting stuck with the following error when I tried to run the cron.php script on my hosting:

$ php cron.php

X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.8
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=a4017fe683543099cb203ef06e28b426; path=/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Content-type: text/plain

2009-09-30 08:44:29 - Checking email...
2009-09-30 08:44:34 - 0 emails fetched.
2009-09-30 08:44:34 - Purging trash...
2009-09-30 08:44:34 - 0 objects deleted.
2009-09-30 08:44:34 - Checking for upgrades...
2009-09-30 08:44:35 - No new versions.
2009-09-30 08:44:35 - Sending reminders...
2009-09-30 08:45:05 - Error sending reminder: Notifier has failed to construct mailer object
2009-09-30 08:45:36 - Error sending reminder: Notifier has failed to construct mailer object

Right so, for some reason it can’t generate an email. Note that the last two messages weren’t appearing when I tried to run the cron.php script directly through my browser.

So next step was to check my email settings, turns out I had the wrong password set up. So there you go, that easy, if you look in the right spot