Email Notification is corrupted at certain transition

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Note that this KB was created for the Data Center version of the product. Data Center KBs for non-Data-Center-specific features may also work for Server versions of the product, however they have not been tested. Support for Server* products ended on February 15th 2024. If you are running a Server product, you can visit the Atlassian Server end of support announcement to review your migration options.

*Except Fisheye and Crucible

Summary

Problem

Email received from JIRA notification is corrupted

This can happened during any part of transition notification

  • Create issue notification mail not corrupted

  • Update issue notification mail is corrupted

Diagnosis

Diagnostic Steps

Get the user to provide .eml file from the corrupted email , follow how to generate the .eml from HERE

1 2 3 4 5 org.apache.velocity.exception.MethodInvocationException: Invocation of method 'getIssueTypeIconUrl' in class com.atlassian.jira.mail.util.MailAttachmentsManagerImpl threw exception java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The resource path [http://pubicons.missiondatalabs.com/recurring32.png] is not valid at templates/email/macros.vm[line 324, column 69] at
  • [http://pubicons.missiondatalabs.com/recurring32.png] is the image that is causing the problem.

Cause

JIRA can only support icons with size (16x16) at the moment, any icon larger than this size might leads to email getting corrupt.

Solution

Resolution

  • Re-upload a valid icon (a 16x16 dimension icon is recommendable)

Updated on April 2, 2025

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