# Send email / Unknown error

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/send-email-unknown-error/73497>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Tags:** actions\
**Created:** [May 20, 2024, 3:28am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/send-email-unknown-error/73497 "2024-05-20T03:28:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![blairrorani](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/blairrorani/32/43426_2.png) [@blairrorani](https://community.glideapps.com/u/blairrorani)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 3:28am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/send-email-unknown-error/73497/1 "2024-05-20T03:28:44Z")

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**Goal**  
Custom action sends email when triggered.

**Help needed**  
Admin gets an unknown error notification via email when this action is triggered.

 ![image 2](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/1/9/1904da597b508df4ffda12043f36742cee4b50d0.png)

![Screenshot 2024-05-20 at 13.13.38](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/f/c/fc465210b3e3cbf92df8d8f8fee63aa6334b0e04.png)

**Additional info**  
Never seen this before

![Screenshot 2024-05-20 at 13.28.00](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/f/8/f81b66d6fb5ca66787a3c43b5c20bbd99b42373f.png)  
Logs show it ran successfully.

**What causes an unknown error?**

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2024, 5:29am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/send-email-unknown-error/73497/2 "2024-05-20T05:29:32Z")

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> [@Getting lots of \[compound\] Action failed errors](https://community.glideapps.com/t/getting-lots-of-compound-action-failed-errors/73256/10):
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> As we prepare to release backend automations, we’ve improved our error reporting systems to be a lot more precise. This might mean that we’re now detecting errors that were previously silently ignored and may not even be important to you. They also may be erroneous errors wink We’re looking into this now to see if we’re sending false positives and in the coming weeks we’ll roll out the ability to control or ignore error notifications. Error notifications are only sent to admins of the team, …