[OJS] Unwanted emails are triggered

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After upgrading to OJS 3.0 from OJS 2.x, lots of mails are triggered to the root user.

I had followed this fix.

But in vain.

Please help me with a fix.

2

Hi @mithunjj

Hmmm… Yes, that patch should help.
@mfelczak, any idea?

Best,
Bozana

3

@bozana I haven’t tried any code patching, just followed the 4 steps

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Hi @mithunjj

I think you should definitely remove these lines in the code: pkp/pkp-lib#1838 Automatic emails for open access/subscription trigge… · mfelczak/ojs@15ef1ed · GitHub, but you could maybe also apply the whole patch: pkp/pkp-lib#1838 Automatic emails for open access/subscription trigge… by mfelczak · Pull Request #1034 · pkp/ojs · GitHub

and then do all the 4 steps again.

I hope that then you will not get any such emails…

Best,
Bozana

5

I’m a OJS newbie :blush:

How can I apply this patch? Should I just replace the files.

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You should download the patch in a diff format. Diff format you will get adding .diff at the end of the commit URL, i.e. here: https://github.com/pkp/ojs/commit/12468cc6438e0914f8209a9bb35285fce8b5e772.diff
Then you can use the command line to patch: patch -p1 < patch_file.diff.
With the option “–dry-run” you can first test the patch, if it can be applied without problems, like this: patch --dry-run -p1 < patch_file.diff. If that goes well, that you can apply the path without that option, like above.

Best,
Bozana