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  2. CONFSERVER-10004

Startup parameter to disable mail send/receive

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      It would be very helpful to have a startup parameter to disable the sending and/or receiving of email.
      Jira has this, as described here.

      The request arose from CSP-13262, in which the site admin regularly test-restores backups. Firewall-based kludges will work, but a built-in facility within Confluence would be far tidier.

            [CONFSERVER-10004] Startup parameter to disable mail send/receive

            Deleted Account (Inactive) added a comment -

            This would be useful. So both email polling and email sending would be disabled at startup.

            Deleted Account (Inactive) added a comment - This would be useful. So both email polling and email sending would be disabled at startup.

            Garnet R. Chaney added a comment - - edited

            I've been asking for this feature for many months. A patch, and changes to setenv.bat to specify java startup parameters, doesn't work.

            So I've resorted to searching bandana cache for mail configs, and manually change them to <enabled>false</enabled>.

            SELECT BANDANAID, BANDANACONTEXT, BANDANAKEY, BANDANAVALUE
            FROM BANDANA
            WHERE (BANDANAKEY = 'atlassian.confluence.space.mailaccounts')

            I make this step part of the manual steps of the test-restore process.

            As for the queue log warning - Also add the "mail disabled" warning to the system information screen so it can't be missed when the support case info is being collected.

            Garnet R. Chaney added a comment - - edited I've been asking for this feature for many months. A patch, and changes to setenv.bat to specify java startup parameters, doesn't work. So I've resorted to searching bandana cache for mail configs, and manually change them to <enabled>false</enabled>. SELECT BANDANAID, BANDANACONTEXT, BANDANAKEY, BANDANAVALUE FROM BANDANA WHERE (BANDANAKEY = 'atlassian.confluence.space.mailaccounts') I make this step part of the manual steps of the test-restore process. As for the queue log warning - Also add the "mail disabled" warning to the system information screen so it can't be missed when the support case info is being collected.

            Charles Miller (Inactive) added a comment -

            If we implement this, we should have the mail-send queue log a warning whenever it flushes and mail is disabled. Otherwise we'll spend three days tracking down someone's "my mail won't send!" support case.

            Charles Miller (Inactive) added a comment - If we implement this, we should have the mail-send queue log a warning whenever it flushes and mail is disabled. Otherwise we'll spend three days tracking down someone's "my mail won't send!" support case.

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              jfleming James Fleming (Inactive)
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