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

[Jonathan Druart]

The easiest way is to wait for 3.16.1 where the fix should be integrated.


2014-05-27 15:46 GMT+02:00 Evan Mungai Njoroge <evan.njoroge at gmail.com>:

> Jonathan;
> A novice query on the same,
> How do I apply a patch to my installation (Ubuntu 12.04 using packages)?
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> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Jonathan Druart <
> jonathan.druart at biblibre.com> wrote:
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>> 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
>>
>>
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>> 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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