Cross-posted from “How could I allow users to schedule sending emails at a specific interval?” by @lena@gregtech.eu in !learn_programming@programming.dev


Basically, I’m trying to figure out how I could allow a user to send a schedule in the cron syntax to some API, store it into the database and then send an email to them at that interval. The code is at gragorther/epigo. I’d use go-mail to send the mails.

I found stuff like River or Asynq to schedule tasks, but that is quite complex and I have absolutely no idea what the best way to implement it would be, so help with that is appreciated <3

  • Lena@gregtech.euOP
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    26 days ago

    I would have to store the users’ cron jobs in a database, and then run some kind of loop on startup to start the cron jobs.

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        26 days ago

        Oops, missed that part. Ideally, this would be able to handle thousands of users

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          26 days ago

          Thousands is nothing, so having a single service holding the info on memory shouldn’t be a problem