I am running an āEmail to Notion automationā. It is via a Gmail account. It was working fine until very recently, but lately it has started sending the same emails multiple times. I couldnāt find a pattern, it doesnāt send all the emails multiple times to Notion, but some of them. Mostly old emails. For example an email that was sent to Notion once on 24th October, is sent again on 28th October multiple times. This messes up all the databases for us.
Error message (if aplicable):
No error message in this case.
Steps to reproduce this issue:
This happens randomly, I donāt see specific triggers apparently.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention! Occasionally, automation can retry when it encounters issues, which may sometimes result in duplicate entries if both requests succeed. Iāve noticed that your automation isnāt currently set up to prevent duplicates, and I recommend adding a check to filter out any repeated entries.
Hereās how to set this up:
Keep the initial trigger as it is (āWhen email is receivedā).
Add a āFind Notion pagesā step and configure it to search using a unique identifier - such as the emailās permalink - so it only finds exact matches.
Add a condition to check whether a page with this unique identifier already exists. For example:
Based on this check, create a new page in Notion only if no matching page is found.
These steps should help prevent duplicates in your Notion database going forward. Let me know if you need any further guidance or have any questions!
Ok perfect thanks. I have implemented this now. Let us see if this works. I think weāll have to wait a little bit to see if this really stops duplicate emails.
i am being sent whatsapp messages for old emails.
on Monday for example i am still getting the emails from Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday and they have been sent for some days now.
I think weāll have to wait a little bit to see if this really stops duplicate emails.
