Overdue notices and email
How can I change the display name for the email that I use to send email via a gmail smtp server in Koha? How can I send out a PREDUE notification? I see there is an advanced_notices.pl and an overdue_notices.pl. I see where to configure the overdue notices in the staff site but not advanced. Also I have the following code that does not seem to work to display the items. I have set up a patron with multiple overdue items setup for testing. The notice is called ODUE1 and I have a delay=1 Dear [% borrower.firstname %] [% borrower.surname %], This is a friendly reminder that you have items that are overdue. You can go to https://library.jaars.org to see the list and renew them if you like [% IF items.size %] [% FOREACH item IN items %] - Title: [% item.title %] - Due: [% item.date_due %] [% END %] [% ELSE %] (No items were found.) [% END %] -- *Paul Dokken* Information and Digital Technology System Administrator PO Box 248, Waxhaw, NC 28173 | jaars.org (c) 803.235.6861 | paul.dokken@jaars.org JUNGLE AVIATION AND RELAY SERVICE At JAARS, we commit to: Seek God Above All | Serve in Love | Act with Integrity | Steward God's Resources with Courage | Pursue Excellence | Collaborate with Respect | Create a Culture of Innovation
Hi there, Paul. I'm curious -- what display name is shown without any additional configuration on your part? Is it the display name from the Gmail instance, or is it the library name configured in Koha? I don't have any recent messages from our system, which is older than the built-in capability you have probably set up. Ours is using a separately-configured Exim4 server and is, I think, sending without a display name. P.S. Greetings to you from the Netherlands, where I've run into your colleague Brenton. David Liddle System Administrator david.liddle@wycliff.de (but not for this list) Wycliff e.V., https://wycliff.de Seminar für Sprache und Kultur, https://spracheundkultur.org Internationales Tagungszentrum Karimu, https://karimu.de On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM Paul Dokken <paul.dokken@jaars.org> wrote:
How can I change the display name for the email that I use to send email via a gmail smtp server in Koha?
How can I send out a PREDUE notification? I see there is an advanced_notices.pl and an overdue_notices.pl. I see where to configure the overdue notices in the staff site but not advanced. Also I have the following code that does not seem to work to display the items. I have set up a patron with multiple overdue items setup for testing. The notice is called ODUE1 and I have a delay=1
Dear [% borrower.firstname %] [% borrower.surname %],
This is a friendly reminder that you have items that are overdue. You can go to https://library.jaars.org to see the list and renew them if you like
[% IF items.size %] [% FOREACH item IN items %] - Title: [% item.title %] - Due: [% item.date_due %] [% END %] [% ELSE %] (No items were found.) [% END %]
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*Paul Dokken* Information and Digital Technology System Administrator
PO Box 248, Waxhaw, NC 28173 | jaars.org
(c) 803.235.6861 | paul.dokken@jaars.org
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Hi David, That's great that you met Brenton. We are using the account library@jaars.org in the SMTP server and it just displays library in lower case as the display name. In Gmail It has the display name as JAARS Library but it ignores it. Thanks for the reply! Paul On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM David Liddle <david@liddles.net> wrote:
Hi there, Paul. I'm curious -- what display name is shown without any additional configuration on your part? Is it the display name from the Gmail instance, or is it the library name configured in Koha? I don't have any recent messages from our system, which is older than the built-in capability you have probably set up. Ours is using a separately-configured Exim4 server and is, I think, sending without a display name.
P.S. Greetings to you from the Netherlands, where I've run into your colleague Brenton.
David Liddle System Administrator david.liddle@wycliff.de (but not for this list)
Wycliff e.V., https://wycliff.de Seminar für Sprache und Kultur, https://spracheundkultur.org Internationales Tagungszentrum Karimu, https://karimu.de
On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM Paul Dokken <paul.dokken@jaars.org> wrote:
How can I change the display name for the email that I use to send email via a gmail smtp server in Koha?
How can I send out a PREDUE notification? I see there is an advanced_notices.pl and an overdue_notices.pl. I see where to configure the overdue notices in the staff site but not advanced. Also I have the following code that does not seem to work to display the items. I have set up a patron with multiple overdue items setup for testing. The notice is called ODUE1 and I have a delay=1
Dear [% borrower.firstname %] [% borrower.surname %],
This is a friendly reminder that you have items that are overdue. You can go to https://library.jaars.org to see the list and renew them if you like
[% IF items.size %] [% FOREACH item IN items %] - Title: [% item.title %] - Due: [% item.date_due %] [% END %] [% ELSE %] (No items were found.) [% END %]
--
*Paul Dokken* Information and Digital Technology System Administrator
PO Box 248, Waxhaw, NC 28173 | jaars.org
(c) 803.235.6861 | paul.dokken@jaars.org
JUNGLE AVIATION AND RELAY SERVICE
At JAARS, we commit to: Seek God Above All | Serve in Love | Act with Integrity | Steward God's Resources with Courage | Pursue Excellence | Collaborate with Respect | Create a Culture of Innovation _______________________________________________
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