escribe the problem/error/question
My inactive workflows are triggering!
2 workflows:
- Alyra - Retrieve Email Responses
- Pillar PEO- Retrieve Email Responses
They are BOTH inactive, and the trigger nodes are deactivated. However, they executed over 500 times overnight, using 1/5 of my credits…
What is the error message (if any)?
No error messages
Please share your workflow/screenshots/recording
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DEACTIVATED IMAP TRIGGER NODE that keeps running 
{
“nodes”: [
{
“parameters”: {
“options”: {
“forceReconnect”: 60
}
},
“type”: “n8n-nodes-base.emailReadImap”,
“typeVersion”: 2,
“position”: [
-400,
0
],
“id”: “c664d0e1-60ac-42a1-a6ed-2e903c7c4945”,
“name”: “[email protected]”,
“credentials”: {
“imap”: {
“id”: “jfLiA80o21K59iyQ”,
“name”: “[email protected]”
}
},
“disabled”: true
}
],
“connections”: {
“[email protected]”: {
“main”: [
]
}
},
“pinData”: {},
“meta”: {
“templateCredsSetupCompleted”: true,
“instanceId”: “cf4a68d0b9cf99b170b28eda6dc67551ca52c87830d832d24173d3abf7ad6cb9”
}
}
Share the output returned by the last node
I expect this node to not trigger, becasue the workflow is not active and the trigger nodes are all deactivated
#[details=“instance information”]
Debug info
core
- n8nVersion: 1.98.0
- platform: docker (cloud)
- nodeJsVersion: 22.16.0
- database: sqlite
- executionMode: regular
- concurrency: 5
- license: community
storage
- success: all
- error: all
- progress: false
- manual: true
- binaryMode: filesystem
pruning
- enabled: true
- maxAge: 168 hours
- maxCount: 2500 executions
client
- userAgent: mozilla/5.0 (macintosh; intel mac os x 10_15_7) applewebkit/537.36 (khtml, like gecko) chrome/137.0.0.0 safari/537.36
- isTouchDevice: false
Generated at: 2025-07-15T13:17:31.767Z}
[/details]
Information on your n8n setup
- n8n version:
- Database (SQLite):
- n8n EXECUTIONS_PROCESS setting (default: own workflow):
- Running n8n via n8n cloud
- Mac OS Sequoia 15.5