Receives the same emaill upto 50x

[johnjunion]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could help me? We have this problem sometimes
when we send an email to an educational institution the email tends to
replicate at the receiving end (up to 50 times). And we have also received
an email from the state that have replicated at our end. Does anyone know
what is going on and how to fix this. Im using outlook 2000

Thanks,
johnjunion

 

[sleipnir214]

Is the email being sent 50 times, or are you seeing 50 copies of the same email?

Mail server put a custom header on each message which uniquely identifies it. If you look at two copies of that message, are the ids the same?

 

[johnjunion]

Thanks for the reply.

The message is being sent only once however the receiver is getting it 50x (at a University). Do you have any clues what is going on? We are using Exchange 5.5 but we are about to change over to Exchange 2000 might that help the problem?

Thanks,
John

 

[sleipnir214]

You're moving to Exchange 2000? May God have mercy on your soul.

And that recipient only gets your emails 50 times? Perfection in engineering does not happen when there is nothing more to add. Rather it happens when there is nothing more to take away.

 

[johnjunion]

So, do you have any solutions for me?

I think we will switch in the end of this week.

The strange thing is that this only happens when she sends email but never when she replies. Isn't that odd?

 

[Clicker]

Are you sure that you have not got one big email coming through - it reloads the whole lot if it fails the first. You need to go online to delete it before downloading.

 

[sleipnir214]

That's a thought. Telnet into port 110 on the mail server and see how many emails there actually are in the mailbox. Perfection in engineering does not happen when there is nothing more to add. Rather it happens when there is nothing more to take away.