Why is Workflow sending Emails even when Status is Complete and %Complete = 100%?

Question

We have a user that is receiving the Task assigned to emails about once a week. He is listed in the CC field of the emails (I think this indicates he created the list entry for which the Workflow is associated). He forwarded 2 of these emails to me, the first of which refers to a list entry that has been deleted while the other refers to a list entry that has Status="Complete", % Complete=100% and having a Due Date of 8/30/2012. The task list item corresponding to the non-deleted item (email #2) does not appear to have been marked as Approved or Rejected yet, so I initially thought this is why the email was being sent out, but this can't be the case because I took a look at the list and there are a lot more items that fall under this scenario of not being approved nor rejected and Status="Complete" & % Complete=100%. I asked him and he said he was not receiving emails for the other list times that are not marked as being approved nor rejected and Status="Complete" & % Complete=100%.

Why is he receiving emails for a task item that no longer appears in the list (i.e. deleted)?

Why is he receiving emails for a task item even when Status="Complete" & % Complete=100%???

Any help is appreciated. Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

I think I found the answer - they're coming from our Test SharePoint farm!

This Microsoft forum helped me find it. Other folks experienced that the Test SharePoint farm still sends out the emails pointing to Production if a backup & restore had recently been performed.

I am currently going into Site Content and Structure, deleting all Active Tasks so the workflows will stop sending out emails.