# Crontab cronjob spooled emails
**URL:** https://forum.mautic.org/t/crontab-cronjob-spooled-emails/28168
**Category:** Product Support
**Created:** [May 28, 2023, 7:52pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/crontab-cronjob-spooled-emails/28168 "2023-05-28T19:52:19Z")
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### Author:  [@ceolteschool](https://forum.mautic.org/u/ceolteschool)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2023, 7:52pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/crontab-cronjob-spooled-emails/28168/1 "2023-05-28T19:52:19Z")
the problem is…
all emails are queued and place in spool folder.
and thats all. they are not go out.
they starts to go out if I manually run this command
php /var/www/html/bin/console swiftmailer:spool:send --message-limit=1000\>
cron jobs do not start
below is my crontab file.
paths are correct. checked.
# Cron jobs for Mautic 2
#\* \* \* \* \* php /var/www/html/app/console mautic:segments:update
#\* \* \* \* \* php /var/www/html/app/console mautic:campaigns:update
#\* \* \* \* \* php /var/www/html/app/console mautic:campaigns:trigger
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# Cron jobs for Mautic 3
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- php /var/www/html/bin/console mautic:segments:update \>/dev/null 2\>&1
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- php /var/www/html/bin/console mautic:campaigns:update \>/dev/null 2\>&1
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- php /var/www/html/bin/console mautic:campaigns:trigger \>/dev/null 2\>&1
#\* \* \* \* \* php /var/www/html/bin/console mautic:emails:send \>/dev/null 2\>&1
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- php /var/www/html/bin/console swiftmailer:spool:send --message-limit=\>
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- root /bin/echo “cron works” \>\> /tmp/file
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### Author:  [@joeyk](https://forum.mautic.org/u/joeyk)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2023, 11:11am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/crontab-cronjob-spooled-emails/28168/2 "2023-05-29T11:11:11Z")
Hi, in your cron you don’t have message limit defined, this command will fail.