[rt-users] 3.6.3 strftime change breaks SendEmail.pm

[Gary Hall]

Gary Hall wrote:
> I've upgraded from 3.6.1 to 3.6.3 and now RT cannot send email.
> 
> Here's the error message:
> 
> Prototype mismatch: sub RT::Action::SendEmail::strftime ($\@;$) vs none 
> at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/Exporter.pm line 65.
>  at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/POSIX.pm line 19
> [Fri Jun 22 17:24:54 2007] [error]: Scrip Commit 23 died. - Usage: 
> POSIX::strftime(fmt, sec, min, hour, mday, mon, year, wday = -1, yday = 
> -1, isdst = -1) at /chroot/opt/rt3/lib/RT/Action/SendEmail.pm line 262.
> 
> Stack:
>   [/chroot/opt/rt3/lib/RT/Action/SendEmail.pm:259]
>   [/chroot/opt/rt3/lib/RT/Action/SendEmail.pm:103]
>   [/chroot/opt/rt3/lib/RT/ScripAction_Overlay.pm:240]
>   [/chroot/opt/rt3/lib/RT/Scrip_Overlay.pm:506]
>   [/chroot/opt/rt3/lib/RT/Scrips_Overlay.pm:193]
>   [/chroot/opt/rt3/lib/RT/Transaction_Overlay.pm:179]
>   [/chroot/opt/rt3/lib/RT/Record.pm:1446]
>   [/chroot/opt/rt3/lib/RT/Ticket_Overlay.pm:744]
>   [/chroot/opt/rt3/lib/RT/Interface/Email.pm:717]
>   [/chroot/opt/rt3/share/html/REST/1.0/NoAuth/mail-gateway:59] 
> (/chroot/opt/rt3/
> lib/RT/Scrip_Overlay.pm:514)
> 
> How can I fix this?
> 

The problem arose of conflict between the 3.6.3 version
of ../lib/RT/Action/SendEmail.pm and a local overlay 
../local/lib/RT/Action/SendEmail_Local.pm.

The overlay was still importing strftime from POSIX.pm. I
updated it to "use" Date::Format's strftime.

Sorry for the noise.

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