{"id":193180,"date":"2026-09-03T11:56:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.questetra.com\/?p=193180"},"modified":"2026-09-03T11:57:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:57:04","slug":"case-does-not-start-when-receiving-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/support.questetra.com\/en\/faq\/case-does-not-start-when-receiving-email\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Does Not Start When Receiving Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl>\n<dt>Question.<\/dt>\n<dd>\n<p>I am using [Message Start Event (email)], but a new Case does not start when an email is received. Why is this?<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<dt>Answer.<\/dt>\n<dd>\n<p>If starting a new Case fails, an error notification email is usually sent, so please check the error details in the email.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are various reasons why a Case may not start from an email in the [Message Start Event (email)]. To find out the cause, please follow the steps below.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"h_01J07NFCH5VADQBD24FK0J6ZWG\">1. Check the error notification email<\/h4>\n<p>If an error occurs during processing after receiving an email on the Questetra side, an error notification email is usually sent to user(s) with [Control Permission] or [System Admin Permission] for the target app.<br \/>If you have received an error notification email, the details of the error will be described in the email, so please first check whether you have received an error notification email.<br \/>(In some situations, the email may have been classified as spam.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e23e085085ce9cb6781385d0baf7301a0\">Email subject: [Questetra] Message Start Event (email) failed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"h_01J07NGBZRMNQS9FC6DDW1F82G\">2. Check the logs on the sending mail server<\/h4>\n<p>If you have not received the error notification email, first check (by asking the mail server administrator) whether the email has been delivered to the destination mail server (Google&#8217;s mail server, used by Questetra) on the sending mail server.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"h_01J07NHMQZHEFRPMTH34FKBEVA\">3. Submit the necessary information to Questetra for an investigation<\/h4>\n<p>If the email is being delivered correctly (received by the Google mail server), please contact us via the <a style=\"background-color: #ffffff;font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#039;Segoe UI&#039;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\" href=\"https:\/\/questetra.zendesk.com\/hc\/en-us\/requests\/new\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">inquiry form<\/a><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#039;Segoe UI&#039;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\"> and <\/span><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#039;Segoe UI&#039;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">include the following information for further investigation<\/span><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, &#039;Segoe UI&#039;, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"efc4d62aa05a7aa80be3d988a8d979cac\">URL of the workflow platform you are using\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e633bdc3a29099d397e6a34c154b4045e\">E.g. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/yourdomain.questetra.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/yourdomain.questetra.net\/<\/a><\/em>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"efe841fd6bc88154bb737b0ff2e9a5d19\">The Case Start Address of the target [Message Start Event (email)]\n<ul>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ea2207db4f5bc83778d31f0bf9c831421\">E.g. <em>emailstart.m123.yourdomain @ questetra-bpms-jp.appspotmail.com<\/em>\n<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"ed6707219e4baf9c1862a9f19a3ee53d7\">Check the settings screen for [Message Start Event (email)]<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e4cec7d1f70d092fbfbcc7f759ca88e12\">You can also check from the menu ([System Settings] &gt; [External App Linkage] &gt; [Message Start Event (Email)] )<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"eb712dbad2ede8ee6450f48a277d9f063\">Sender&#8217;s email address (From address)<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"edd68335ff24ed51fa8c134dda4e76689\">Message ID<\/li>\n<li data-list-item-id=\"e06af10e2eafebec38c1bdd622f9fe362\">The date and time the email was received<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question. I am using [Message Start Event (email)], but a new Case does not start when an email is received. Why is this? Answer. If starting a new Case fails, an error notification email is usually sent, so please check the error details in the email. \u00a0 There are various reasons why a Case may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-faq","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5695],"tags":[],"faq_section":[5717],"class_list":["post-193180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq","faq_section-5717"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"newspack-article-block-landscape-large":false,"newspack-article-block-portrait-large":false,"newspack-article-block-square-large":false,"newspack-article-block-landscape-medium":false,"newspack-article-block-portrait-medium":false,"newspack-article-block-square-medium":false,"newspack-article-block-landscape-intermediate":false,"newspack-article-block-portrait-intermediate":false,"newspack-article-block-square-intermediate":false,"newspack-article-block-landscape-small":false,"newspack-article-block-portrait-small":false,"newspack-article-block-square-small":false,"newspack-article-block-landscape-tiny":false,"newspack-article-block-portrait-tiny":false,"newspack-article-block-square-tiny":false,"newspack-article-block-uncropped":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Kitao","author_link":"https:\/\/support.questetra.com\/en\/author\/kitao\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Question. I am using [Message Start Event (email)], but a new Case does not start when an email is received. Why is this? Answer. If starting a new Case fails, an error notification email is usually sent, so please check the error details in the email. \u00a0 There are various reasons why a Case may&hellip;","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9DiIh-OfO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":76145,"url":"https:\/\/support.questetra.com\/en\/bpmn-icons\/message-start-event-email\/","url_meta":{"origin":193180,"position":0},"title":"Message Start Event (email)","author":"Hirotaka NISHI","date":"2019-04-05","format":false,"excerpt":"Starts a new process automatically by receiving an email. 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