Mail flood from the uncoordinated bugzilla cleanup

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Tue Jan 29 12:02:59 CST 2008


On Jan 29, 2008 8:36 AM, Detlef Riekenberg <wine.dev at web.de> wrote:
> The flood was to fast to stop Mail-delivery in wine-bugs.
> After i stopped Mail-delivery in wine-bugs, the sending queue was still
> so full, that my Mailbox got flood again and the bounce rate reached the
> limit and mailman disabled Mail-delivery for all wine groups.

Sorry.  Hopefully there won't be a next time, but if there
is, we should give people a few days warning so
they can unsubscribe.  Or we should disable sending
mail when doing bulk changes.
- Dan



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