Calendar keeps sending the same notification again and again

madmas · March 30, 2020, 3:43pm

Hi,

I just updated my Nextcloud to the latest and greatest (18.0.3 ) and have the side-effect that notifications from the calendar (“User added appointment to calendar”) are being sent again and again.
(ever 30 minutes, even though I’ve set “hourly” in index.php/settings/admin/activity) … but I think I fond the reason for this, cron job is running:
*/15 * * * * php -f /home/nextcloud/cron.php

Do you have a hint for me where this is coming from and what I can do about it?

best
Markus

Nemskiller · March 30, 2020, 3:48pm

Same here

tcit · March 30, 2020, 4:19pm

Do you mean notifications from this app https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps//event_update_notification ?

madmas · March 31, 2020, 2:34pm

@tcit no, I don’t have that app installed. The notification are from Nextcloud core, I guess.

Nemskiller · March 31, 2020, 2:39pm

It’s the basic Nextcloud Notification,
You get spammed on the WebUI and Desktop Client about appointments that already occurred

madmas · March 31, 2020, 2:50pm

That was fine for me so far, but the recurring email-notifications are new since the upgrade.
Any hints what can be done about it?

Nemskiller · March 31, 2020, 2:56pm

You could disable email notification about calendar.
Look in your Nextcloud WebUi preferences Panel and notifications

madmas · March 31, 2020, 3:12pm

Yes, but I want to have them - once. As notifications “on change”.
Is it a known problem or should I report a bug about this?

Nemskiller · March 31, 2020, 3:25pm

You should go there : https://github.com/nextcloud/calendar/issues
I don’t see our problem listed in here, so lets give a try.

madmas · April 3, 2020, 11:59am

Opened a bug in server as required in the description/issue template: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/20286

madmas · May 1, 2020, 4:01pm

No reactions to the ticket, yet

madmas · May 3, 2020, 11:30am

Now it gets more stange: I tried to diable all email notifications (disabled as admin in Settings/Activity “Send emial for activities” and also disabled mail notification in user settings) but Nexcloud keeps sending the notifications. And hint where I can look into this?

madmas · May 6, 2020, 4:12pm

I traced this a bit and found out that the mails are send by the ''activity" app which collects events in a table called $prefix_activity_mq but appearently the function meant to clean up after mails are sent does not work as expected as there are several event left in that table for which I get the notifications again and again.

Finally I was able to solve this by debuggin and adding a fix to the activity app code: https://github.com/nextcloud/activity/issues/459