Hello all,
I'm coming to you after a rather big incident on my client's production server. Some filters create a list of users to notify of a certain action. It then removes the current user's login name from the list. Anyhow, there was a bug in the list that left a trailing "0" after the name of one user. When a few days ago he triggered a notification, the list had a "0" in it. Which is the id of the "Public" group. So our server started to send an email to 160k+ users. Thanks to a full tablespace, "only" 36k emails where sent. The bug itself is corrected, but my client would like us to find a definitive protection against this kind of problems. The only thing I can think of for now, is having a script that would watch the AR System Email Messages. If it has more than X outbound email to send, then interrupt Email Engine. I don't even know how I could do that in a clean way. Any thoughts ? Versions : AR System 7.5 p6 RHEL 5 Oracle 11g _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
