A new crontab based perl script to send membership expiry reminders. A
system preference controls the number of days in advance of membership
expiry that the notices will be sent on.
To Test:
1) Create a new Patron and set membership expiry date 14 days from the
date of registration.
2) Check your systemprefence ( MemExpDayNotice to 14 days default value)
3) Manual testing Run ( perl membership_expiry.pl -h)
It would give you various option:
This script prepares for membership expiry reminders to be sent to
patrons. It queues them in the message queue, which is processed by
the process_message_queue.pl cronjob.
See the comments in the script for directions on changing the script.
This script has the following parameters :
-c Confirm and remove this help & warning
-n send No mail. Instead, all mail messages are printed on screen.
Useful for testing purposes.
-v verbose
Do you wish to continue? (y/n)
4) Choose option for ex: perl membership_expiry.pl -c
5) Go to your koha database and check message_queue table you see some
results.
6) Run (perl process_message_queue.pl) it will send email to those
patron whose membership after 14 days from today.
7) Cron testing: (10 1 * * * $KOHA_CRON_PATH/membership_expiry.pl -c)
8) Set your 15 * * * * $KOHA_CRON_PATH/process_message_queue.pl
9) After running membership_expiry.pl, (process_message_queue.pl will
send emails to those patron whose membership after 14 days from
today).
Signed-off-by: Owen Leonard <oleonard@myacpl.org>
Signed-off-by: Marcel de Rooy <m.de.rooy@rijksmuseum.nl>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Cohen Arazi <tomascohen@theke.io>
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