Posted by Jamie Alessio on 01/07/05 02:59

The first place I would look is in your web server logs to establish if
the pages are actually requested multiple times at the time the
duplicate emails are sent.

- Jamie

>Hello all - this problem is so wierd that I don't even know where to start.
>Hopefully you all can give me a couple leads.
>
>I have some reporting systems going on in various places on the server -
>mail() is called when a user does this or that. These scripts are farily
>simple, so I am next to certain is isn't the code - but every once in a
>while, more than one duplicate email will be sent.
>
>What is so strange is that it only occurs for these odd periods of time. For
>example, yesterday from 4pm to this morning at 7am, 2 copies would be sent.
>Last week for several days, 5 copies would be sent.
>
>The emails are frequent enough (every couple of minutes) that it is very
>easy to track, but I don't have a clue as to what would be the cause.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions as to where to start looking?
>
>Thanks in advance!
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