Confluence Email Daily Report is not sent

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Summary

Email Daily Report is not sent

Environment

7.12

Diagnosis

Confluence suddenly stopped sending Email Daily Reports and this behaviour is intermittent.

While reviewing the application logs(atlassian-confluence.log), we can see below error -

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 2021-05-06 00:00:04,298 ERROR [Caesium-1-3] [impl.schedule.caesium.JobRunnerWrapper] runJob Scheduled job DailyReportJob#DailyReportJob failed to run^M com.atlassian.confluence.api.service.exceptions.PermissionException: Not permitted to use confluence : null^M at com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.cql.impl.DefaultCQLSearchService.checkCanUse(DefaultCQLSearchService.java:406)^M at com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.cql.impl.DefaultCQLSearchService.performV2Search(DefaultCQLSearchService.java:269)^M at com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.cql.impl.DefaultCQLSearchService.search(DefaultCQLSearchService.java:156)^M at jdk.internal.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor2358.invoke(Unknown Source)^M at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)^M at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)^M at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:343)^M at org.eclipse.gemini.blueprint.service.importer.support.internal.aop.ServiceInvoker.doInvoke(ServiceInvoker.java:56)^M at org.eclipse.gemini.blueprint.service.importer.support.internal.aop.ServiceInvoker.invoke(ServiceInvoker.java:60)^M at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:186)^M at org.springframework.aop.support.DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.doProceed(DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.java:136)^M at org.springframework.aop.support.DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.invoke(DelegatingIntroductionInterceptor.java:124)^M at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:186)^M .... at com.mute.confluence.plugins.lms.security.CoursePermissionManager.isCourseCoAuthor(CoursePermissionManager.java:122)^M at com.mute.confluence.plugins.lms.security.CoursePermissionManager.isCourseAuthor(CoursePermissionManager.java:117)^M at com.mute.confluence.plugins.lms.security.CoursePermissionManager.canView(CoursePermissionManager.java:159)^M at com.mute.confluence.plugins.lms.security.CoursePermissionsDelegate.canView(CoursePermissionsDelegate.java:50)^M at com.atlassian.confluence.security.Permission$1.checkAgainst(Permission.java:17)^M ... at com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.contentproperty.JsonPropertyPermissionDelegate.hasPermission(JsonPropertyPermissionDelegate.java:71)^M at com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.contentproperty.JsonPropertyPermissionDelegate.canView(JsonPropertyPermissionDelegate.java:24)^M at com.atlassian.confluence.security.Permission$1.checkAgainst(Permission.java:17)^M at com.atlassian.confluence.security.DefaultPermissionManager.hasPermissionNoExemptions(DefaultPermissionManager.java:100)^M at com.atlassian.confluence.mail.ChangeDigestNotificationBean.userHasAccessTo(ChangeDigestNotificationBean.java:152)^M at com.atlassian.confluence.mail.ChangeDigestNotificationBean.getAllChangeReportForUser(ChangeDigestNotificationBean.java:74)^M at com.atlassian.confluence.mail.ChangeDigestNotificationBean.getAllChangeReports(ChangeDigestNotificationBean.java:142)^M at com.atlassian.confluence.mail.jobs.DefaultDailyReportManager.generateDailyReports(DefaultDailyReportManager.java:85)^M

Cause

Based on the above stack trace, this is happening due to a third party Macro i.e Smart Courses due to a bug.

Solution

Upgrade Smart Courses plugin to the latest version since this was fixed under 7.2.1 release of Smart Courses plugin.

Updated on March 21, 2025

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