Duplicate email notifications in using extended notification

Hi,
I have configured extended nottification to send workitem notifications to outlook email inbox by using SWNADMIN & SWNCONFIG.  I have executed the SWN_SELSEN program to send notifications out.  However, I am getting two duplicate email messages for every same workitem.  Has anyone run into this same issue?  If you have, could you share how did you solve this problem.
Thank you for your help.
Jennifer Tran

If you're on ECC 5.0 or higher - check this blog out
<a href="/people/saujanya.gn/blog/2006/12/19/how-to-get-work-items-your-outlook-inbox:///people/saujanya.gn/blog/2006/12/19/how-to-get-work-items-your-outlook-inbox
If you're on something lower than ECC 5.0 -
Search SDN for notes on RSWUWFML2 - that's a SAP program that you could use to send workitem to outlook email inbox.
Hopes this help.
Jennifer Tran
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