Duplicate Email Messages
Box 1
Windows Server 2003 (has not been updated to SP1 for application reasons)
Exchange 2003 with SP1
Box 2
Windows XP (fully patched)
DynaComm Email Filtering PC
We have users that are receiving emails from Ebay. The same messages are being duplicated.
Some of the steps I have taken are listed below:
All machines have been rebooted.
All messages in the incoming queue have been deleted from the filtering PC.
Logging has been turned on for Exchange and the filtering PC.
We have increased the session timeouts for both machines and rebooted both.
According to the Message Tracking in ESM, the same messages are repeating continuously.
Windows Server 2003 (has not been updated to SP1 for application reasons)
Exchange 2003 with SP1
Box 2
Windows XP (fully patched)
DynaComm Email Filtering PC
We have users that are receiving emails from Ebay. The same messages are being duplicated.
Some of the steps I have taken are listed below:
All machines have been rebooted.
All messages in the incoming queue have been deleted from the filtering PC.
Logging has been turned on for Exchange and the filtering PC.
We have increased the session timeouts for both machines and rebooted both.
According to the Message Tracking in ESM, the same messages are repeating continuously.
Hi sumamer,
Are you collecting from a POP3 email account?
This is a common issue seen when collecting from a POP3 account using 3rd party software and an email is destined for several users.
The issue ocurrs as your ISP creates an email for each user, then when the Exchange system recieves the email, does the same. If this is your issue, you should be able to filter duplicate email messages using you POP3 collector.
Good Luck,
Chris
Are you collecting from a POP3 email account?
This is a common issue seen when collecting from a POP3 account using 3rd party software and an email is destined for several users.
The issue ocurrs as your ISP creates an email for each user, then when the Exchange system recieves the email, does the same. If this is your issue, you should be able to filter duplicate email messages using you POP3 collector.
Good Luck,
Chris
ASKER
I have printed off the headers of the last six messages of the same name and message ID. The only differences between them is the arrival time. (X-OriginalArrivalTime and it's derivatives.)
We host our own email server and we are collecting the email via SMTP.
My understanding is that the message ID is generated from Exchange. Exchange appears to be delivering the exact same email to the users' mailboxes every 40 minutes or so - and it is only emails received from EBay. Having said that, I feel confident that the problem is with Exchange and not the filtering PC. If the filtering PC were duplicating the message, it seems Exchange would give the message a unique identifier.
The SMTP virtual server settings are at their default settings, with the exception of message expiration.
We host our own email server and we are collecting the email via SMTP.
My understanding is that the message ID is generated from Exchange. Exchange appears to be delivering the exact same email to the users' mailboxes every 40 minutes or so - and it is only emails received from EBay. Having said that, I feel confident that the problem is with Exchange and not the filtering PC. If the filtering PC were duplicating the message, it seems Exchange would give the message a unique identifier.
The SMTP virtual server settings are at their default settings, with the exception of message expiration.
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Thanks for clearing things up about the message ID.
Yes, the "Received: from" is exactly the same for all 6 messages.
I have killed the filtering PC during the time that a duplicate would have been created. The message was not duplicated until I brought the filtering PC's SMTP services back online, but it did duplicate at that time. The filtering PC is most likely my culpret here. I'll start focusing my attention there.
Yes, the "Received: from" is exactly the same for all 6 messages.
I have killed the filtering PC during the time that a duplicate would have been created. The message was not duplicated until I brought the filtering PC's SMTP services back online, but it did duplicate at that time. The filtering PC is most likely my culpret here. I'll start focusing my attention there.
You should be able to work out where the duplication is taking place by comparing the headers and looking for the point at which they start to differ.