[Koha-bugs] [Bug 6810] Send membership expiry reminder notices

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Bug_6810 Send membership expiry reminder notices.

A new crontab based perl script to send membership expiry reminders. A system
preference controls the number of days in advance of membership expiry that the
notices will be sent on.

To Test:
1) Create a new Patron and set membership expiry date 14 days from the date of
registration.
2) Check your systemprefence ( MemExpDayNotice to 14 days)
3) Manual testing Run ( perl membership_expiry.pl -h)
    It would give you various option:
    This script prepares for membership expiry reminders to be sent to
    patrons. It queues them in the message queue, which is processed by
    the process_message_queue.pl cronjob.
    See the comments in the script for directions on changing the script.
    This script has the following parameters :
     -c Confirm and remove this help & warning
     -n send No mail. Instead, all mail messages are printed on screen. Usefull
for testing purposes.
     -v verbose
    Do you wish to continue? (y/n)
4) Choose option for ex: perl membership_expiry.pl -c
5) Go to your koha database and check message_queue table you see some results.
6) Run (perl process_message_queue.pl) it will send email to those patron whose
membership after 14 days from today.
7) Cron testing: (10   1 * * *  $KOHA_CRON_PATH/membership_expiry.pl -c)
8) Set your 15   * * * *  $KOHA_CRON_PATH/process_message_queue.pl
9) After running membership_expiry.pl, (process_message_queue.pl will send
emails to those patron whose membership after 14 days from today).

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