FWIW: AFAICT there are currently 123 251 bugs in the AOO Bugzilla instance.
On 12 September 2013 19:33, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
