Add documentation for routine jobs required for mailman-core

[maxking]

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Currently, mailman-core container only runs mailman core and nothing else. However, there are some required routine jobs, typically run via cron, that are required for digests to work. This should be documented to make sure that people set that up in some way. While, it would be ideal to get it working directly inside the container, I don’t love the idea of having a full cron service inside the container.

In mailman-web, it is handled by uwsgi, which allows for cron-like invocations, but Core doesn’t really need uwsgi for anything.

A simple enhancement would be to add to docs that people need to set @daily docker-compose -f <compose-file> exec mailman-core <commands> in their cron configuration running on the host.

The documentation about the required routine jobs: https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/config-core.html#configuring-cron-jobs

[joergmschulz]

just to understand it correctly: When I use mailman-web in addition to mailman-core, uwsgi handles all cron stuff and the additional steps aren't needed?

[maxking]

No, that’s not correct. Core’s cron jobs are not run at all. mailman-web’s uwsgi handles the jobs specific to hyperkitty only.

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