2009/7/17 Jesse <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pianohacker@gmail.com">pianohacker@gmail.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/16 Wagner, Jane <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwagner@ptfs.com" target="_blank">jwagner@ptfs.com</a>></span><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
There is a syspref AutoEmailPrimaryAddress (under Administration, system<br>
preferences, patrons) which lets you specify which email field should be<br>
used for notices -- email or emailpro. However, so far as I know, Koha<br>
doesn't have the ability to use both. I think it would be a useful<br>
enhancement to set it up so that if field A in email priority list is<br>
empty, use address in field B.<br>
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Jane Wagner<br>
Library Systems Analyst<br>
PTFS Inc.<br>
Content Management and Library Solutions<br>
6400 Goldsboro Road, Suite 200<br>
Bethesda, MD 20817<br>
(301) 654-8088 x 151<br>
<a href="mailto:jwagner@ptfs.com" target="_blank">jwagner@ptfs.com</a><br>
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From: <a href="mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz" target="_blank">koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz</a><br>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz" target="_blank">koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz</a>] On Behalf Of Cab Vinton<br>
Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 9:16 AM<br>
To: Koha list<br>
Subject: [Koha] Overdue notices<br>
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Is it correct to assume that Overdue notices are only sent to Home<br>
email addresses (borrowers.email)?<br>
<br>
Some patrons provide both a home & a work email (borrowers.emailpro).<br>
<br>
Ideally, the Patron DB would be setup to allow staff to specify the<br>
default email address to be used for notices.</div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>It does. Whatever you put in home email address gets used.<br> <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div>Otherwise, Koha should send notices to any available address (work if<br>
no home address available, & vice versa.)<br>
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At present, I believe we would have to copy work addresses into empty<br>
home address fields to ensure that Notices are sent out.<br>
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Thank you,<br>
<br>
Cab Vinton, Director<br>
Sanbornton Public Library<br>
Sanbornton, NH<a href="http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha" target="_blank"></a><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><br>The overdue notices cronjob currently uses Koha's default behavior for sending notices: only check the email field, fail if that isn't present. Fixing this would benefit anything else in Koha that sends email.<font color="#888888"><br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br>AutoEmailPrimaryAddress only affects the notification from the initial adding of a patron account. It does not affect overdues.<br><br>Overdues email targeting is not a bug. It is by design to accommodate the European use of professional organizations as the alternate contact, since when everybody at the library belongs to a smaller number of professional organizations, it doesn't make sense to mailbomb the company admin with 100 overdue notices a day. <br>
<br>I think it is perfectly fine to use only the home address, as long as staff users understand that's the one that matters.<br>-- <br>Joe Atzberger<br>LibLime - Open Source Library Solutions<br>