# Duplicate topics in email activity summary

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/duplicate-topics-in-email-activity-summary/319688
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** activity-summary
**Created:** [August 1, 2024, 6:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/duplicate-topics-in-email-activity-summary/319688 "2024-08-01T18:45:50Z")
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### Author: ![j127](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/j127/32/79093_2.png) [@j127](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j127)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2024, 6:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/duplicate-topics-in-email-activity-summary/319688/1 "2024-08-01T18:45:50Z")

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I’m not sure if this is a bug or a problem with my settings.

Lately some of the email digests contain duplicate topics. Here’s a screenshot of one of them with the same topic repeated three times in a row. Multiple people are receiving digests with duplicate topics, but not all of them are like this.

Does anyone know what it might be?

 ![Discourse duplicate topics in email digest](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/2/8/52850c1f2a41bb807750cef63db4de6c50aea61a.png)

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### Author: ![j127](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/j127/32/79093_2.png) [@j127](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j127)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2024, 2:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/duplicate-topics-in-email-activity-summary/319688/2 "2024-08-05T14:55:14Z")

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Does anyone know where I might be able to look for clues? The forum is sending out thousands of emails, and it’s still happening. It also happens in the email preview in the dashboard at `/admin/email/preview-digest`.

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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2024, 6:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/duplicate-topics-in-email-activity-summary/319688/3 "2024-08-07T06:39:40Z")

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I think we have another report of this here:

> [@Multiple repeated summary mail entries](https://meta.discourse.org/t/multiple-repeated-summary-mail-entries/296539):
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> My idle test user just received its weekly summary mail and it contains 5 times the same topic (it’s a topic which was edited and pinned a few times, but still it should only show up once, especially if it shows the exact same text not something like “have been pinned” or such. From the 3 popular posts 2 have been duplicates. Also the “new for you” table contained a post 3 times: With that lots of duplication nearly no information was conveyed (even though other posts would have bee…