On Jan 5, 2008 12:05 PM, Børge Holen <borge@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Saturday 05 January 2008 16:31:49 Daniel Brown wrote:
> > Had everything gone as it was supposed to, I think it would've
> > been welcomed with open arms. Unfortunately, my stupid ass flipped
> > the wrong flag while testing for approximately an hour, which sent
> > posts to the list every minute for one hour. However, they weren't
> > coming through at the time, and I didn't realize that they were even
> > being sent, because the address was not subscribed at the time. Once
> > the address was subscribed, all of the messages must've been held in a
> > queue on the mailing list side, and were then distributed.
> >
> > This leads me to ask, why? Isn't this a really Bad Idea[tm] to
> > hold posts in queue, pending confirmation of the sender's address? I
> > can understand one message, but any more than that shouldn't be
> > necessary. My intentions were just to add something "neat" to the
> > list for the regulars (which will work as expected now), but what if
> > someone had truly malicious intentions? What if hundreds or thousands
> > of emails were sent and held in queue, and then the sender's address
> > confirmed? Would the mailing list software even be able to handle
> > that much of a queue?
> >
>
> I wonder... what you try to do seems like a trivial task, or just task, where
> did you go wrong to make it send all those mails?
> just some personal interrest...
>
> > --
> > Daniel P. Brown
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> >
> > If at first you don't succeed, stick to what you know best so that you
> > can make enough money to pay someone else to do it for you.
While I was testing things, I commented out the wrong "to" line
and the cron was running. It was a simple mistake.
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Daniel P. Brown
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If at first you don't succeed, stick to what you know best so that you
can make enough money to pay someone else to do it for you.
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