[Koha] How disable sending email

[Paul A]

On 2017-04-06 09:58 AM, Craig Butosi wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Katrin wrote:
>
>>> But be careful and check and clean the message_queue table before turning email on again
>
> This is very useful! I never thought to do this should I have to disable koha email. So, from a command line perspective, would the following SQL statement achieve this (or be appropriate) in, say, 16.05 on Ubuntu 14.04?
>
> USE {your_koha_sqldb_name_here};
> DELETE * FROM message_queue;

We use (as koha_owner):

/usr/share/koha$ ./bin/cronjobs/cleanup_database.pl --mail -v

Best -- Paul
>
> Thanks!
>
> Craig Butosi, MA, MLIS, B Mus (Hons.)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Koha [mailto:koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz] On Behalf Of Katrin
> Sent: April-06-17 2:34 AM
> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [Koha] How disable sending email
>
> But be careful and check and clean the message_queue table before turning email on again - you don't want to end up sending out a lot of outdated emails unexpectedly :)
>
> Katrin
>
> On 05.04.2017 20:09, Eric Bégin wrote:
>> Tim,
>>
>> Meanwhile, you can comment out the process_message_queue.pl script
>> from your cronjob.
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> On 2017-04-05 14:01, Jonathan Druart wrote:
>>> Hi Tim,
>>>
>>> This is certainly dues to bug 15854.
>>> It has been fixed in all stable releases.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>> On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 at 14:37 Tim Koop <TimK at mysouthland.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Our Koha is sending duplicated emails for checkin notices.
>>>>
>>>> Is there an easy way to disable this for everybody until we can
>>>> upgrade Koha to get it fixed?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tim Koop