[Koha] Overdue notices sent to a random patron (3.16)

[Jonathan Druart]

Hello Yuval,

Bug found, see the patch on bug 12315.
The script is advanced_notices.pl, not overdue_notices.pl

It is highly recommended not to use this script without the patch attached
to the bug report.

Regards,
Jonathan



2014-05-26 15:36 GMT+02:00 Yuval Hager <yhager at yhager.com>:

> Hi,
>
> I just upgraded to Koha 3.16 using the Debian repo on Thursday. Everything
> went
> fine and was working well.
>
> On Friday, I found out that a patron received 51 emails of advanced due
> notices
> of other patrons. I confirmed this with the server mail logs, but I have no
> idea why this happened.
>
> I verified that this patron's email address only shows up under their
> record on
> the borrowers table.
>
> Checking the email logs, it seems that it sends a bunch of emails to a
> single
> patron, then another bunch to another (I don't know what the content is),
> so
> I'm suspecting something strange is going on.
>
> I tried running the overdue_notices.pl script with -n -v, and it just
> spit out
> a list of messages to be sent, but not the email address it would send it
> to.
>
> Any ideas where to begin searching to investigate this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --yuval
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