Outbound email error after 9038 installed

Outbound email error after 9038 installed

I've just upgraded from 3036 to 9038 and immediately post upgrade outbound emails stopped working.   The serverout0.txt log file is reporting the following error, any suggestions?

[08:37:34:235]|[03-12-2015]|[com.adventnet.servicedesk.utils.WorkOrderUtil]|[SEVERE]|[32]|: Exception while trying to check whether to send notification for request closure to the requester.|java.lang.NullPointerException

at com.adventnet.servicedesk.notification.util.NotificationFactory.isNotificationEnabled(NotificationFactory.java:2131)

                at com.adventnet.servicedesk.helpdesk.util.NotificationUtil.isNotificationEnabled(NotificationUtil.java:75)

                at com.adventnet.servicedesk.utils.WorkOrderUtil.checkNotifyEnabled(WorkOrderUtil.java:2915)

                at com.adventnet.servicedesk.utils.WorkOrderUtil.notifyOnRequestSynchronous(WorkOrderUtil.java:2468)

                at com.adventnet.servicedesk.task.RequestNotificationTask.executeTask(RequestNotificationTask.java:62)

                at com.adventnet.workengine.task.internal.TaskManagerImpl.executeTask(TaskManagerImpl.java:706)

                at com.adventnet.workengine.executor.internal.WorkFlowExecutor.executeStartingTask(WorkFlowExecutor.java:160)

                at com.adventnet.workengine.executor.internal.WorkFlowExecutor.executeWorkFlowTemplate(WorkFlowExecutor.java:115)

                at com.adventnet.workengine.executor.internal.WorkFlowExecutor.executeWorkFlow(WorkFlowExecutor.java:105)

                at com.adventnet.workengine.internal.WorkEngineImpl.executeWorkFlowWithoutTransaction(WorkEngineImpl.java:422)

                at com.adventnet.servicedesk.utils.WorkOrderUtil.notifyOnRequest(WorkOrderUtil.java:2378)

                at com.adventnet.servicedesk.utils.WorkOrderUtil.notifyOnRequest(WorkOrderUtil.java:2344)

                at com.adventnet.servicedesk.utils.WorkOrderUtil.notifyOnRequest(WorkOrderUtil.java:2331)

                at com.adventnet.servicedesk.utils.WorkOrderUtil.resolveRequest(WorkOrderUtil.java:7677)

                at com.adventnet.servicedesk.utils.WorkOrderUtil.resolveRequest(WorkOrderUtil.java:7578)

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