Hi Everyone,
One of our members has contacted me about getting duplicate posting notification emails from the Discussion Board. Is anyone else seeing similar duplicate Discussion Board emails?
re: Is anyone getting duplicate emails from the Discussion Board?
No. It's possible that the member is mistaking a second email containing an update as a duplicate. Since one would have to open the email and read to the end to see the update, it would be an easy mistake to make.
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re: Is anyone getting duplicate emails from the Discussion Board?
This afternoon there was a problem. I was getting 4-8 copies of each post. It seems to have resolved itself.
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re: Is anyone getting duplicate emails from the Discussion Board?
I am not getting duplicate emails from SOR.
I was trying to find the time that a problem occurred when I was trying to post a reply in the Discussion Board. The system locked up on me for quite a while, then it went back to normal. I saw that KHJ had posted a reply to the same post 1 second before me. I can't find it now.
However, I tried to create a new posting after that. It was about the tracking web site. When I tried to post it, the system locked up on me. I thought maybe I was having problems with the internet, but it was only SOR where I had a problem.
I came back to SOR maybe ten minutes later, and was able to create and save the new post. That was around 11:17 AM Central time. So, all of this started around 11:00 AM Central Time.
re: Is anyone getting duplicate emails from the Discussion Board?
Our hosting service had a major outage yesterday afternoon that took a few hours to repair. This is from their website:
"There are still a few systems currently down that were effected by the power unit which has since been repaired. Phone systems are down temporarily do to a serial card failure."
Looks like the power unit not only did not supply power, but it fried a few ports on various machines. I think Stamporama was out for less than an hour, but one of my other servers was gone for about 5 hours.
Roy
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re: Is anyone getting duplicate emails from the Discussion Board?
Tim I have had similar experiences in the past where I will get multiple copies of the same email.
I found it wasn't the Stamporama server at all, but my own server that wasn't deleting or picking up that the email had already been sent and it was staying on the server as an unread email.
I have my email preferences set up on my server to delete the email once it has been sent to me. Otherwise over time I will get a notice from the server saying my box is full and emails will bounce back to the sender. I am limited to a certain amount of storage space on the server.
To fix the problem of duplicate emails when they happen I go into my email account at the server through Webmail, delete the problem email and then I never receive another copy of it from that point on.
re: Is anyone getting duplicate emails from the Discussion Board?
Doug - Have you tried going into your email account through webmail to see if that one particular email is sitting there? If it is, delete it and see if you get it sent to you again. If you do, then you would know for certain that it is the Stamporama server who is sending out duplicate emails.
re: Is anyone getting duplicate emails from the Discussion Board?
I have adjusted the timing of the program that sends out the email notifications. Please let me know if you are still getting duplicate emails. I'm particularly interested to know if the duplicates are only from Discussion Board Notifications, or are you getting duplicate emails from the Auction, Approvals, SOR Message notifications?
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. - Aristotle Onassis 17 Apr 2015 07:18:49am
re: Is anyone getting duplicate emails from the Discussion Board?
Seems better to me!
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re: Is anyone getting duplicate emails from the Discussion Board?
Yes, and it has been happening with certain seller's notifications, most recently yesterda from Dave Parsens.
I just ignore the duplicate message.
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re: Is anyone getting duplicate emails from the Discussion Board?
Yes, and I have mentioned it by PM to the person whose duplicate emails crop up quite regularly, in case s/he was unaware of it. These are not just re auction or trading/selling, nor are they (always) edited versions of previous responses. As has been said, it's a small matter, but it is out there.
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