Paperless Office intermittently fails to send Invoices, but indicates "Y"

We are struggling with an intermittent problem in Paperless Office; sending SO Invoices in Customer Viewer. The system will indicate the invoices have been sent with a "Y" yet they never hit our Exchange server. Our company has a Sage 100 Advanced V2023 application running on a Windows 2019 virtual machine, with MS Exchange running on a Windows 2016 Exchange server. When these emails fail to send our managed service provider can't see any evidence of the email in either Exchange or our spam filtering software. And our Sage Advisor can't find anything in the Sage server that would indicate Paperless Office failed. I've been searching this site for anything similar, and the closest I can find is from 8 years ago:

 Paperless Office: How to – Part 1 

We are on ERP100 VERSION 5.20.2.0    We have been using Paperless office to send our invoices to our dealers.   I am hearing from a few customers (about 10)  that the transmissions we are sending are not consistently getting through.   I am religiously checking the PAPERLESS VIEWER for errors.  Everything looks fine.  I have a "Y" on the "sent" column for the past month.

We have also added a mailbox a year ago to monitor what bounces back due to bad emails or disconnects.  For these 10 customers, I do not see bounce backs, yet the customers still claim, that they are not getting everything.  

These are not customers who are making excuses as to why an invoice isn't paid.  These are good accounts that review their statements and keep needing to request invoices that on our side appear to have been sent properly through the paperless system.

Anything else I can check?  Anyone else running into an intermittent success rate?  Any help is greatly appreciated.   Baffled here....

It's 2024, we are on Sage 100 V2023 Advanced running on a WIN2019 Sage server and a WIN2016 Exchange server and getting this same exact issue. Intermittent, but definitely NOT SPAM FILTER OR JUNK MAIL at customer end. They actually use the same MSP as we do, so they have the same tech stack. Our MSP can not identify issue (on their end they can say with certainty the Exchange server never received a message to send). But like Dean's initial post, our Sage Paperless Office Customer Viewer indicates "Y" the email was sent. ANYONE ELSE GETTING THIS ISSUE? Vanessa Ho or other Sage staff, any ideas or resolutions? Thanks in advance for your help!

Is anyone else seeing this issue, and does anyone have any suggested fixes? Thanks for your help!

Tom Kueterman

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    Hi  ,

    Thanks for reaching out. Did you ever find an answer for this issue? This article offers insights into managing Paperless Office documents, such as how to resend or reprint direct deposit stubs. This process involves using the Paperless Office Stub Viewer and could be somewhat related in terms of ensuring that documents are properly sent or accessible when issues arise. 

    it might be worthwhile to explore similar settings or options within the Paperless Office setup that could affect the delivery of invoices. Here are a few steps you might consider:

    1. Check the Email Delivery Settings: Ensure that the email settings within Paperless Office are correctly configured, including the SMTP server settings and any necessary authentication details.

    2. Review Email Logs: If available, review the email logs within Sage 100 or your email server to identify any errors or failed delivery attempts.

    3. Verify Email Addresses and Spam Filters: Double-check the email addresses of the recipients to ensure they are correct and not marked as spam or blocked by either your or the recipient's email system.

    4. Consult Sage Support: If the issue persists, reaching out to Sage support or consulting with your Sage advisor, as you've done, is a good step. They may have insights into recent updates or patches that address this specific issue.

    If there are any other details you can share or if you have specific questions about the steps mentioned above, please let us know.

    Warm Regards,

    Erzsi

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    Thanks for the reply Erzsi. We have not resolved this yet, but our Sage Advisor has contacted Sage Support on the matter. Being an intermittent issue we have not yet found a single common thread to pull. (1) Our email delivery settings have been validated and we use Paperless Office with many different activities so I would think a delivery setting would show issues in other modules. (2) We have (and are continuing) to review email logs; we are now doing a daily reconciliation of our paperless office SO Invoices with our Exchange server. And (3) we've reached out to several of the customers impacted and our emails are not being trapped by spam filters or blocked. We've got a bandaid solution to resend if we find missing emails via our reconciliation but obviously don't want to continue this extra step. I've also checked Windows Event Logs on our Sage server to see if I can identify any errors at the times this occurs but again nothing that sticks out.