On 12 September 2013 18:53, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Mechtilde <o...@mechtilde.de> wrote: >> Hello >> >> What happens? I get nearly 6500 mails today with date 07.08.2013. >> >> My mail provider ask me, if all things are right ;-) >> >> Kind regards >> > > I haven't been hacked. > > These issues were changed back in August as you can see from their > modification dates. I know to disable mail notifications when doing > bulk changes. I did so in this case. > > To do that I set "mail_delivery_method" to "none, which the Bugzilla > admin documentation describes as: > > "'none' will completely disable email. Apache OpenOffice (AOO) > Bugzilla continues to act as though it is sending mail, but nothing is > sent or stored. " > > However, when doing routine maintenance, running the "sanity check" > which checks for inconsistencies in the database, it reports on issues > that have unsent notifications and offers to send them. I assumed > (falsely) that this the previous "none" mail processing behaved as > described, namely that it acted the same as sending mail, but with > nothing sending. In other words, that it would record that a > notification had been meant. > > So what we're seeing are old notifications that were prevented before, > but are now being sent. > > I've set the mail_deliver_method to none for now, which hopefully will > stop the notifications for now.
Might be worth taking this up with Infra in case there is a better way to do bulk updates in future. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
