| Title | The replicator can send out mail bombs |
| Status | closed |
| Priority | essential |
| Assigned user | Gareth Rees |
| Organization | Ravenbrook |
| Description | The replicator can get stuck in a loop where it sends e-mail to the administrator every 10 seconds (or whatever the poll_period is). This is very unfriendly. Not only that, the e-mail message can double in size each time because each message includes the formatted_traceback from the previous message. |
| Analysis | It should back off exponentially, like sendmail does. This is a duplicate of job000135. |
| How found | customer |
| Evidence | <http://info.ravenbrook.com/mail/2001/01/22/16-00-12/0.txt>< http://info.ravenbrook.com/mail/2001/02/14/20-09-34/0.txt> |
| Observed in | 0.4.2 |
| Introduced in | 0.4.0 |
| Created by | Gareth Rees |
| Created on | 2001-02-14 20:11:42 |
| Last modified by | Gareth Rees |
| Last modified on | 2001-12-10 19:24:06 |
| History | 2001-02-14 GDR Created. |
| Change | Effect | Date | User | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8839 | closed | 2001-02-21 16:56:03 | Gareth Rees | The replicator backs off exponentially if it fails to poll successfully, so as not to mailbomb the administrator. |