diff --git a/app/email_queue/resources/jobs/email_send.php b/app/email_queue/resources/jobs/email_send.php
index c4160bcb68..ae657519f6 100644
--- a/app/email_queue/resources/jobs/email_send.php
+++ b/app/email_queue/resources/jobs/email_send.php
@@ -5,14 +5,16 @@
 		//set the include path
 		$conf = glob("{/usr/local/etc,/etc}/fusionpbx/config.conf", GLOB_BRACE);
 		set_include_path(parse_ini_file($conf[0])['document.root']);
-
-		//includes files
-		require_once "resources/require.php";
 	}
 	else {
 		exit;
 	}
 
+//include files
+	require_once "resources/require.php";
+	include "resources/classes/permissions.php";
+	require $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/app/email_queue/resources/functions/transcribe.php";
+
 //increase limits
 	set_time_limit(0);
 	//ini_set('max_execution_time',1800); //30 minutes
@@ -101,12 +103,6 @@
 		sleep($sleep_seconds);
 	}
 
-//includes
-	if (!defined('STDIN')) { include_once "root.php"; }
-	require_once "resources/require.php";
-	include "resources/classes/permissions.php";
-	require $document_root."/app/email_queue/resources/functions/transcribe.php";
-
 //define a function to remove html tags
 	if (!function_exists('remove_tags')) {
 		function remove_tags($string) {