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the head of marketing (my mother-in-law, unfortunately,) decided to send
a newsletter to a few dozen of our international distributors. fine.
not a big deal. they actually expect this, are opt-in, and that
situation alone is all copacetic.
my mother-in-law is (still) not terribly computer-savvy, and put ~80
recipients directly in the To: line. this leaks unnecessary
information, but other than being an annoyance is not normally a
technical problem.
unfortunately one of the recipient's email handlers in sweden apparently
has a buffer overflow problem and for whatever reason has decided that
it needs to resend this newsletter to all ~80 recipients, I assume since
they're on the To: line. it seems to die somewhere in the process, and
at last count some recipients had received 20 copies of the newsletter,
which included a 88K pdf attachment.
this busted swedish mailer is also preserving the original envelope
sender, meaning that secondary failures are also being bounced back.
hate hate hate.
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Aaron J. Grier | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
"silly brewer, saaz are for pils!" -- virt
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