[Koha] A question about disabling email

Katrin Fischer katrin.fischer.83 at web.de
Mon Jan 19 22:42:31 NZDT 2026


Hi Chris,

all the crons labelled with --email won't be run, this includes the 
overdue notices and advance notices, but for some reason not the 
membership expiry notices:

https://git.koha-community.org/Koha-community/Koha/src/commit/f21255ca54ac4c774eeb8f4bbd7597ec47edde87/debian/koha-common.cron.d

https://git.koha-community.org/Koha-community/Koha/src/commit/f21255ca54ac4c774eeb8f4bbd7597ec47edde87/debian/koha-common.cron.daily 


So yes, if you disable email, most notices won't be generated in the 
first place.

Hope this helps,

Katrin

On 17.01.26 12:43, Chris Brown wrote:
> Gentle Reader,
>
> If I disable email on my koha instance, (using koha-email-disable), does it
> just stop the message queue from being processed, or does it also stop the
> system from placing "overdue" notices into the queue? We're running Koha
> 22.11
>
> Thanks in advance for any replies.
>
> Chris Brown
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