[Koha] Should password be mandatory to send ACCTDETAILS notice

[Katrin Fischer]

Hi Sonia,

I think the ACCTDETAILS notice is a bit difficult. Last I checked I
think it required you to enter email, userid and password before saving
the patron the first time in order to work right. As it avoids the
message queue there is no way to tell if the notice was sent correctly
and there is no way to send it again.

There are some bugs filed in this context:

*Bug 9097*
<https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=9097> -
'Welcome mail' for new library users
*Bug 15834*
<https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15834> -
Options to supress e-mail generated by AutoEmailOpacUser
*Bug 18543*
<https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18543> -
Automated emails for new patron accounts with the AutoEmailOpacUser
preference

I don't see a reason why password should be mandatory, other than it
might lead to messages being sent out incomplete for libraries using it
for this feature.

I think it might be a bit nicer to realize the idea of a separate
'welcome mail', that goes through the message queue and have an option
to send it again if needed.

Hope that makes sense,

Katrin


On 11.04.19 09:31, BOUIS Sonia wrote:
> Hello,
> We wanted to send notices to our new external patrons using ACCDETAILS notice but, we have seen that in members/memberentry.pl, there's a checking to be sure there's a password for the patron.
> We don't use the password (this field is in the "BorrowerUnwantedField" system preference in our Koha) because we send our patrons in the university directory with a specific password not created in Koha.
> We would like to use the ACCTDETAILS notices to send our new patron a summary of the services provided by the library and to explain how they could connect to their account or how to change their password. We don't want to send them the password by email.
>
> Do you see a reason to keep checking if there's a password in memberentry.pl or do you think we could remove it?
>
> Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
>
> Cheers
>
> Sonia BOUIS
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