[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #20260: Post by email posting same message multiple times

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Mon Mar 19 15:40:57 UTC 2012


#20260: Post by email posting same message multiple times
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 Reporter:  bloggertype   |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General       |    Version:  3.3.1
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:
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 I am using the Post by email feature for a Wordpress.org blog. I post by
 mail once a day and daily to the blog, usually around midnight. There are
 usually between 2 and 6 messages posting on any given day (sent as
 individual emails).

 I have set up a secret POP email address to which I send emails, and these
 emails are picked up by Wordpress as Posts on my blog.

 However, I am seeing the messages post multiple times; sometimes twice,
 sometimes up to 10 times in a row on the blog.

 It usually happens for all messages on certain days, but some days this
 does not happen at all. I have not been able to identify a pattern of
 which days have this problem or if it is related to the number of messages
 posting on a particular day.

 This issue began happening around October 2011; previously, I didn't
 notice this problem.

 Environment:
 Wordpress.org 3.3.1
 Thunderbird 7.1 email client; publish messages sent in text mode, with
 word wrap off
 Google Apps account used as secret email. Account set to POP. All
 forwarding, etc. is turned off.

 Steps: 1) wp-mail.php modified to post regardless of author, per bug 18923
 which keeps messages stuck in Pending status 2) User from which posts sent
 is registered as Editor or Admin in Wordpress site. 3) Theme footer
 modified to include automatic checking for incoming messages 4) Email
 account is setup in mail client that matches the Admin/Editor email in
 Wordpress 5) Message to post is sent to the secret address by user

 Result: 1) Wordpress on certain days posts the messages with no problem;
 other days, it posts multiple copies of the message. Usually, either all
 messages post multiple times or all post one time for a given day; I have
 not noticed that if one message on a particular day posts multiple times
 that another will post only once. 2) There can be anywhere from 2 to 10
 copies of the same message posted. 3) I have tried to modify my POP
 account settings so that messages get Archived when read, rather than
 staying in the Inbox; however, this did not fix the problem.

 Note: I use Google Apps as the email server for both the From: mail and
 the secret address mail.

 I have not been able to find other discussions on this topic, nor track
 down any possible root cause of it.

 Message of one of the posts that posted multiple times is attached.

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