Is it correct to assume that Overdue notices are only sent to Home email addresses (borrowers.email)? Some patrons provide both a home & a work email (borrowers.emailpro). Ideally, the Patron DB would be setup to allow staff to specify the default email address to be used for notices. Otherwise, Koha should send notices to any available address (work if no home address available, & vice versa.) At present, I believe we would have to copy work addresses into empty home address fields to ensure that Notices are sent out. Thank you, Cab Vinton, Director Sanbornton Public Library Sanbornton, NH
There is a syspref AutoEmailPrimaryAddress (under Administration, system preferences, patrons) which lets you specify which email field should be used for notices -- email or emailpro. However, so far as I know, Koha doesn't have the ability to use both. I think it would be a useful enhancement to set it up so that if field A in email priority list is empty, use address in field B. Jane Wagner Library Systems Analyst PTFS Inc. Content Management and Library Solutions 6400 Goldsboro Road, Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20817 (301) 654-8088 x 151 jwagner@ptfs.com -----Original Message----- From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Cab Vinton Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 9:16 AM To: Koha list Subject: [Koha] Overdue notices Is it correct to assume that Overdue notices are only sent to Home email addresses (borrowers.email)? Some patrons provide both a home & a work email (borrowers.emailpro). Ideally, the Patron DB would be setup to allow staff to specify the default email address to be used for notices. Otherwise, Koha should send notices to any available address (work if no home address available, & vice versa.) At present, I believe we would have to copy work addresses into empty home address fields to ensure that Notices are sent out. Thank you, Cab Vinton, Director Sanbornton Public Library Sanbornton, NH _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
2009/7/16 Wagner, Jane <jwagner@ptfs.com>
There is a syspref AutoEmailPrimaryAddress (under Administration, system preferences, patrons) which lets you specify which email field should be used for notices -- email or emailpro. However, so far as I know, Koha doesn't have the ability to use both. I think it would be a useful enhancement to set it up so that if field A in email priority list is empty, use address in field B.
Jane Wagner Library Systems Analyst PTFS Inc. Content Management and Library Solutions 6400 Goldsboro Road, Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20817 (301) 654-8088 x 151 jwagner@ptfs.com
-----Original Message----- From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Cab Vinton Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 9:16 AM To: Koha list Subject: [Koha] Overdue notices
Is it correct to assume that Overdue notices are only sent to Home email addresses (borrowers.email)?
Some patrons provide both a home & a work email (borrowers.emailpro).
Ideally, the Patron DB would be setup to allow staff to specify the default email address to be used for notices.
Otherwise, Koha should send notices to any available address (work if no home address available, & vice versa.)
At present, I believe we would have to copy work addresses into empty home address fields to ensure that Notices are sent out.
Thank you,
Cab Vinton, Director Sanbornton Public Library Sanbornton, NH _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
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. -- Jesse Weaver
2009/7/17 Jesse <pianohacker@gmail.com>
2009/7/16 Wagner, Jane <jwagner@ptfs.com>
There is a syspref AutoEmailPrimaryAddress (under Administration, system
preferences, patrons) which lets you specify which email field should be used for notices -- email or emailpro. However, so far as I know, Koha doesn't have the ability to use both. I think it would be a useful enhancement to set it up so that if field A in email priority list is empty, use address in field B.
Jane Wagner Library Systems Analyst PTFS Inc. Content Management and Library Solutions 6400 Goldsboro Road, Suite 200 Bethesda, MD 20817 (301) 654-8088 x 151 jwagner@ptfs.com
-----Original Message----- From: koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz [mailto:koha-bounces@lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Cab Vinton Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 9:16 AM To: Koha list Subject: [Koha] Overdue notices
Is it correct to assume that Overdue notices are only sent to Home email addresses (borrowers.email)?
Some patrons provide both a home & a work email (borrowers.emailpro).
Ideally, the Patron DB would be setup to allow staff to specify the default email address to be used for notices.
It does. Whatever you put in home email address gets used. Otherwise, Koha should send notices to any available address (work if
no home address available, & vice versa.)
At present, I believe we would have to copy work addresses into empty home address fields to ensure that Notices are sent out.
Thank you,
Cab Vinton, Director Sanbornton Public Library Sanbornton, NH <http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha>
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.
AutoEmailPrimaryAddress only affects the notification from the initial adding of a patron account. It does not affect overdues. 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. I think it is perfectly fine to use only the home address, as long as staff users understand that's the one that matters. -- Joe Atzberger LibLime - Open Source Library Solutions
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