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Out-of-office email ping-pong fills server after server over festive break

JimboSmith Silver badge

Re: Exchange?

Novell Groupwise allowed you to delay sending emails until a particular time. Handy for slagging people off after you've left the company etc. So anyway two staff members at a particular company were having a friendly bit of banter via email. Unbeknownst to each other they were both going on holiday at the same time. They had both had the clever idea of sending the other a mildly insulting message after they'd left for sunnier skies.

The mail server filled up fairly quicly as one of them had included a picture of a beach in their out of office. Alarms started going off on the Network manager's desktop as the server started to reach capacity. The culprits weren't named but it was interesting what he said. In the five years since the groupwise was installed this was the first instance of that happening. When pressed further on that he said most people didn't know you could delay sending email. That lead a lot of staff to believe it was people on his team.

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