# Discourse Sending Double E-mail

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-sending-double-e-mail/279671>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [September 21, 2023, 8:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-sending-double-e-mail/279671 "2023-09-21T08:25:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![thoka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/thoka/32/115652_2.png) [@thoka](https://meta.discourse.org/u/thoka)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2024, 1:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-sending-double-e-mail/279671/10 "2024-03-11T13:23:45Z")

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Did you find a solution?

I once was struggling with a similar behavior. Users got hammered with emails, which the mail server sent but in discourse’s view were not sent.

My hypothesis was that it is possible that discourse gives a job to the mail server and there is a timeout during the process, which causes this to look like a fail to discourse even though the mail was sent. The failed job is then repeated and results in a new mail.

I was happy to resolve this by killing jobs in sidekiq, restarting the mail server and tinkering with fail2ban rules.

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