Inbound email target and target table is empty when watermark exists
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01-06-2016 09:55 AM
I am having a problem with my Reply in my inbound email actions. It is not setting the target table. After reviewing the HI KB ServiceNow KB: Inbound Email Action Target Table (KB0535511) I checked the email logs and it says it's skipping my inbound action and it's not writing the received email into the incident.
Skipping 'Reply to Task', did not create or update sc_task |
Here is a screenshot of my email action where you can see the table matches. This was
This was working previously in our development environment, and I'm not sure where else to check. Here are the steps I I have validated the watermark exists in the watermark table with the proper MSG#. Here is a list of the things I have checked already:
- Validated the inbound email action has a type and a table.
- Verified the outbound email has a target and a watermark.
- Sent a reply from my Outlook 2013 (Exchange 2010, I think).
- Verified I see the reply in the Received Inbound mail, where the header still contains the Ref message and the subject contains the TASK number
- I have manually applied the target table and document and reprocessed the email - this shows up in the TASK as I would expect.
So, all that to ask, what has to happen for the Task to be considered "created" or "updated"? All I am doing is pressing the email button the task and sending out an email, just like our helpdesk would be doing. There will NOT be any updates to the task, the email is simply for information gathering.
Thank you very much for all of your help.

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01-06-2016 07:35 PM
You're inbound email has a watermark, but the senders email address of the email (or reply-er) email matches a user's record?
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01-07-2016 07:10 AM
It does. I am following this article that I located. We are not making any "real" updates to the incident so it doesn't think there is an update, therefore the email action never gets processed. I want it to go into the task regardless if there was a change to it.
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01-07-2016 07:14 AM
And... it's still not working. GRR!
-- Inbound email action --
The target in the inbound email is still blank. Need some more help please, Michael.Fry.

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01-07-2016 07:26 AM
What is that Stop Processing checkbox and why is it checked?
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07-18-2017 08:56 AM
Hello William,
Did you find the correct solution for this? If so, please post it here. We are facing the same issue.
Thanks,
Dedeepya