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I once (accidentally) setup a mail group with itself as a member. Everything was fine until the first message came in, and a few minutes later I hear "Uh, why
by gregmac 8y ago
I once (accidentally) setup a mail group with itself as a member.
Everything was fine until the first message came in, and a few minutes later I hear "Uh, why do I have 5,000 new emails?" "Woah, I have 9,000", "Oh, mine is at 15,000 now!".
I don't remember what it got up to before we managed to get into the now-very-slow mail server to fix it, but it was in the hundreds of thousands. Luckily it was only internal mailboxes.
- leephillips 8y agoThe only group of mail groups that you should use is the one that only has mail groups that do not have themselves as a member.
- xpil 8y agoAfter reading this statement like 5 or 6 times I am still not sure whether I grok it or not. Would put it on a sticker though.
- chopin 8y agoI think it's akin to "the set of all sets which do not contain themselves". EDIT: My favorite is more "the town barber who shaves all men in town who do not shave themselves".