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#14889 Single Akeeba update notification

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Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 05 February 2013 01:17 CST

Monday, 04 February 2013 13:57 CST

user12946

Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? N/A
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes: Chapter 4. Miscellaneous Extensions (Modules, Plugins)
Joomla! version: (unknown)
PHP version: 2.5.8
MySQL version: 5.0.96
Host: Rochen
Akeeba Backup version: 3.6.10


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Description of my issue:

I need to know if there's a way of not having multiple notifications when a new version of Akeeba is out. I need an email notification, but only one, because I'm driving it to a private ticketing system.

Tuesday, 05 February 2013 01:17 CST

nicholas

You can't. It doesn't store any information about who, when and for which version it has notified via email. Moreover the upate URL is only valid for 24 hours (it expires after that). That's the reason it sends the notification every 24 hours. If I wanted to send only one notification I would have to make the following mistakes:

  • Keep yet another database table with the user ID, timestamp and version for each notification sent. Database bloat.
  • Every ~24 hours that the plugin is triggered I'd have to check if everyone's been sent the notification. Unnecessary db queries on top of the one db query we have now.
  • The update currently link is valid for 24 hours, for security reasons. I would have to either:
    • Make the update URL valid for an indefinite period of time. From a security perspective that's a very bad idea.
    • Remove the update URL. Then I'd need you to answer all the angry emails from the people with 50+ websites which will demand this feature back or threaten to take their torches and pitchforks :)

That's why I believe that the current implementation is just fine.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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