# Campaign timing and configuration

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/campaign-timing-and-configuration/4628>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [July 25, 2016, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/campaign-timing-and-configuration/4628 "2016-07-25T15:48:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![balkee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@balkee](https://forum.mautic.org/u/balkee)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/campaign-timing-and-configuration/4628/1 "2016-07-25T15:48:33Z")

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I’m setting up campaigns, I get the basics, but have some questions:

1. How often should a typical campaign be triggered? The cron job is set for all campaigns, as far as I know… is there a way to set different schedule for different campaigns?  
2. What happens when there are time-delays, example; if I have a 4 hour delay before an event in a campaign and campaign runs every 10 minutes; would I be able to enforce that time delay for the specific instance the campaign ran?  
3. In “opens email” decision, what is the time frame that must pass before the e-mail is considered “not opened”?  
4. Is there a known practice for drip marketing in Mautic, such as moving the lead from list to list, or using logical decision-trees within a campaign with time-delays.  
  
  
  
Thanks for your feedback…

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**Author:** ![balkee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@balkee](https://forum.mautic.org/u/balkee)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/campaign-timing-and-configuration/4628/2 "2016-07-25T15:48:33Z")

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I’m setting up campaigns, I get the basics, but have some questions:

1. How often should a typical campaign be triggered? The cron job is set for all campaigns, as far as I know… is there a way to set different schedule for different campaigns?
2. What happens when there are time-delays, example; if I have a 4 hour delay before an event in a campaign and campaign runs every 10 minutes; would I be able to enforce that time delay for the specific instance the campaign ran?
3. In “opens email” decision, what is the time frame that must pass before the e-mail is considered “not opened”?
4. Is there a known practice for drip marketing in Mautic, such as moving the lead from list to list, or using logical decision-trees within a campaign with time-delays.

Thanks for your feedback…