Forum/digest mails not sending, other mails OK, cron OK, Moodle 2.8.5

Forum/digest mails not sending, other mails OK, cron OK, Moodle 2.8.5

by Roger Emery -
Number of replies: 1

Version  2.8.5+

Issue - Forum digest emails and forum "mail now" emails not being sent.

  • Emails do get sent fine from "messages" and assignment submission receipts get sent out OK  so I assume our email server is OK and all the connection details are good (nothing has changed in years)
  • This problem appears to have started on upgrade to Moodle 2.8 a couple of weeks ago, all was fine on Moodle 2.6.
  • The table mdl_forum_queue does not seem to get populated at any point
  • Scheduled tasks indicate "Forum mailings and maintenance jobs" are running (should there be any other tasks I should look at?)
  • Running the cron manually does not show any reports of forum posts being sent out

Having read all the other postings regarding mails not sending including everything linked from these postings below I am stumped as to the cause of the issue.

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=278478

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=280158



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Re: Forum/digest mails not sending, other mails OK, cron OK, Moodle 2.8.5

by Roger Emery -

And our cron job shows "Inbound Message not fully configured - exiting early"

As I understand it the cron has been separated to prevent one failed task impacting another, however in this case it appears to be linked to outgoing forum messages - is this the case? If so I will report as a bug