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Received 4 mail notifications but only 2 actual mails
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Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

These are my on-wiki notifications:
‪Cryptic‬ sent you an email.
Draft:Sssniperwolf
40m
‪Cryptic‬ sent you an email.
Draft:SSSniperWolf
41m
‪Cryptic‬ sent you an email.
SSSniperwolf
43m
‪Cryptic‬ sent you an email.
SSSniperWolf
1h

Note the differences in capitalization.

What happens?:
I received the mails for SSSniperwolf and Draft:SSSniperWolf. The mails for SSSniperWolf and Draft:Sssniperwolf are nowhere to be found.

What should have happened instead?:
I should have received 4 mails.

Yes, I checked my spam folder. I also logged in on my webmail and saw the same two mails, no trace of the other two. Also checked the spam folder within webmail, but I actually disabled the spam filter there.

I'm unsure what went wrong here, I'll see if I can reproduce it.

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AlexisJazz created this task.Nov 11 2023, 9:17 PM
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AlexisJazz added a comment.Nov 11 2023, 11:06 PM

Cryptic mailed the missing pages again and this time they arrived. So I don't think it was a filter.

My theory is that MediaWiki maybe does a case-insensitive title check to prevent mails from arriving more than once. Possibly doubleclick protection? Will have to test.

jhathaway subscribed.Jan 29 2024, 3:45 PM

@AlexisJazz were you able to reproduce?

jhathaway claimed this task.Jan 29 2024, 3:45 PM
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AlexisJazz closed this task as Declined.Jan 30 2024, 9:49 AM

@jhathaway nope. Guess it was a fluke, or one of the Wikimedia mail servers (assuming that's load balanced) was malfunctioning, or maybe Cryptic did something different. I'll just decline this myself, anyone feel free to reopen if it happens again.

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