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Reminds me of the time our CTO sent 35000 emails to a single customer. The poor guy had his email ddos’d for days. Even though our email api quickly stopped sen
by mrcartmeneses 4y ago
Reminds me of the time our CTO sent 35000 emails to a single customer. The poor guy had his email ddos’d for days. Even though our email api quickly stopped sending emails after we ran out of credit, the guy was still getting the same email for days. It was as if the emails were taking weird paths through the internet and queuing in certain places before turning up
- lethologica 4y agoThis is the hardest I’ve ever laughed at a comment on HN. Thanks for sharing.
- raxxorraxor 4y agoI host a service tool to contact our suppliers in case of a defect. Every 20 minutes the tool checks if there are new processes and if so suppliers are contacted per mail with a link to a form that contains questions and relevant files. Newbie mistake of me was to send the mail and set a database entry that the supplier had been contacted. In exact that order. You can guess which part failed at some point and who got the same mail every 20 minutes... They did respond with above average speed though. Didn't stop the mails of course.
- preisschild 4y agoIf the receiving e-mail server doesn't acknowledge that it has received the e-mail, the sending server will try again for 5 days. Maybe it timeouted due to the huge e-mail spam. This might explain why he got the same mail for days.