Confluence Email Notification and Daily Email Update does not work
Platform notice: Server and Data Center only. This article only applies to Atlassian products on the server and data center platforms.
Problem
The Confluence notification and daily update email is not being sent.
The following appears in the atlassian-confluence.log
2015-05-06 00:00:31,486 ERROR [scheduler_Worker-2] [confluence.mail.jobs.DefaultDailyReportManager] queueDailyReportEmail Failed to create daily report for user USER_A
java.lang.NullPointerException
at javax.mail.util.ByteArrayDataSource.<init>(ByteArrayDataSource.java:87)
at com.atlassian.confluence.core.DefaultDataSourceFactory.getServletContainerResource(DefaultDataSourceFactory.java:213)
at com.atlassian.confluence.core.DefaultDataSourceFactory.getServletContainerResource(DefaultDataSourceFactory.java:180)
at com.atlassian.confluence.mail.jobs.DefaultDailyReportManager.attachProfileImage(DefaultDailyReportManager.java:241)
at com.atlassian.confluence.mail.jobs.DefaultDailyReportManager.queueDailyReportEmail(DefaultDailyReportManager.java:132)
at com.atlassian.confluence.mail.jobs.DefaultDailyReportManager.generateDailyReports(DefaultDailyReportManager.java:97)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)Cause
The default profile picture user_16.png which are used by user who have not configured their profile picture are missing from the installation folder.
Workaround
- Download the same version of standalone installation zip from Confluence download page
- Unzip the downloaded installation zip
- Go to unzip folder and copy images folder in the <unzip_folder>/confluence directory
- Shutdown Confluence
- Replace it with the <confluence-install>/confluence/images/ in your current installation directory.
- Restart Confluence
Last modified on Mar 30, 2016
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