a sent e-mail is being sent continuously to the recipient

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artsprinting

I sent an e-mail with attachment about 2 weeks ago, and the recipient
is still receiving it, about once every couple of hours. Doesn't
bother me, but the recipient is about to go crazy, as the attachment is
about 9 megs. and fills their mailbox.

What do I do?
 
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Barry Wainwright [MVP]

I sent an e-mail with attachment about 2 weeks ago, and the recipient
is still receiving it, about once every couple of hours. Doesn't
bother me, but the recipient is about to go crazy, as the attachment is
about 9 megs. and fills their mailbox.

What do I do?
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Your recipient will have to get the message killed off at their mail server.
Your computer/mail server has successfully sent it - they must be hitting
errors either at receipt from their mail server or at receipt to their mail
server. The protocols should allow the error to be reported back up the
chain to stop this behaviour, but some mail servers do not handle such
errors very well, and this is the result - the mail server knows the message
was not delivered correctly, so it keeps trying again.

Eventually, it will time out (after 3 days, usually) and give up resending.

This should be a salutary lesson that email was never designed for
multi-megabyte attachments!
 
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