Hello everyone,
My cron.php has not been launched since the start of my e-learning platform...The previous developer has not set this script to run. Now, I want to turn it on. I'm just afraid that some old notifications will be sent to users. Is there one table in the database that I need to clear?
In this situation I add $CFG->noemailever = true; to config.php. This prevents any outstanding email notifications being sent. Then when the cron has completed successfully (for example after one hour) I remove this so any subsequent email notifications are sent.
There are some notes on this setting in the example config-dist.php:
// When working with production data on test servers, no emails or other messages
// should ever be send to real users
$CFG->noemailever = true; // NOT FOR PRODUCTION SERVERS!
