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Email I sent being received multiple times by recipient

168bill
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Email I sent being received multiple times by recipient

A recipient of an email that I sent is complaining that the email keeps getting repeatedly delivered to them.

They think the problem is at my end as they don't have this issue with anyone else.

I am wondering if their receiving server is not sending an acknowledgement of the delivery and therefore the PN server keeps resending it.

Does anyone have any suggestions about this and how I might get it resolved?

 

Thx.

Bill.

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Gandalf
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Re: Email I sent being received multiple times by recipient

Hi Bill,

Could you ask for a copy of the headers of one of the duplicate emails they've received?

That might give away some clues into what's happening. Smiley

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168bill
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Re: Email I sent being received multiple times by recipient

Thanks, I'll try that.

Although I'm not sure they will be knowledgeable enough to do this, but I'll try and talk them through it.

Gandalf
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Re: Email I sent being received multiple times by recipient

Cool. No problem, let me know how it goes. 

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Re: Email I sent being received multiple times by recipient

@Gandalf 

Is there any possibility that Plusnet's sending email server is behaving in the same manner as the third-party server described here https://community.plus.net/t5/Email/Duplicate-email-Plusnet-MX-issue/m-p/1887347#M40737 ?

Certainly, sounds similar, albeit in this case its Plusnet doing the sending ... rather than Plusnet receiving multiple copies.

Superusers are not staff, but they do have a direct line of communication into the business in order to raise issues, concerns and feedback from the community.

168bill
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Re: Email I sent being received multiple times by recipient

Unfortunately had no further update from the recipient, so I can only assume that whatever the issue was, it has now gone away again 🙄.

Thanks for the support though, appreciated 😊.

 

Bill.