Retained messages are not received

[GreatSnoopy]

Hello,
Is there a known issue with retained messages not being received?
I am using ArduinoMqttClient on a ESP32 type board. I am able to successfully subscribe to 2 topics and i can successfully receive any message that comes on those topic AFTER my application is running. However, retained messages on that topic are never being received.

[aentinger]

Hi, possibly a broker problem? If you connect with a MQTT command line client, can you then receive the retained messages?

[GreatSnoopy]

Not a problem with the broker. Works as expected with mosquitto_sub on a desktop machine in the network as well as with a sketch based on https://github.com/plapointe6/EspMQTTClient on the same ESP32 board.

[Webbeh]

I have a similar issue.

If you subscribe to multiple topics, I only receive one of the retained messages sometimes, and sometimes I don't.

I had to subscribe in cascade (subscribe, read the message received, subscribe to the next, ...) to avoid this issue.

Also when you subscribe, I find that listening to incoming messages with no operation in between greatly improves my luck.