chIt all started one morning when someone looked at the list of DL’s they were on, and discovered that they were on this mysterious distribution list called „Bedlam DL3“. So they did what every person should do in that circumstance (not!).
They sent the following email
Wie man einem Mail-System gewaltige Probleme bereitet.
Und ich sag nicht, dass Ähnliches nicht auch mit Domino passieren könnte. Aber:
When the MTA was restarted, it would immediately start processing the messages in its queue – and since the messages hadn’t been delivered yet, it would retry to deliver the message, sending to the SAME 8,000 recipients and crashing. And because of the way the Exchange store interacts with the MTA, even if we shut down the MTA, the messages would still queue up waiting on delivery to the MTA –shutting down the MTA wouldn’t fix the problem, it would only defer the problem (since the message store would immediately start delivering the queued messages into the MTA the second the MTA came back up).
wäre bei Domino kein Problem, da man Mails ohne weiteres aus der Nachrichtenwarteschlange rausnehmen kann.
