** I have posted this on Communities also : https://communities.bmc.com/message/326184 But I thought there might be more suggestions on the ARS List with all the veterans here.
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Sylvain YVON <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello all, > > > > I'm coming to you after a rather big incident on my client's production > server. > > Some filters create a list of users to notify of a certain action. It then > removes the current user's login name from the list. Anyhow, there was a > bug in the list that left a trailing "0" after the name of one user. When a > few days ago he triggered a notification, the list had a "0" in it. Which > is the id of the "Public" group. So our server started to send an email to > 160k+ users. Thanks to a full tablespace, "only" 36k emails where sent. > > > > The bug itself is corrected, but my client would like us to find a > definitive protection against this kind of problems. > > > > The only thing I can think of for now, is having a script that would watch > the AR System Email Messages. If it has more than X outbound email to send, > then interrupt Email Engine. I don't even know how I could do that in a > clean way. > > > > Any thoughts ? > > > > Versions : > > AR System 7.5 p6 > > RHEL 5 > > Oracle 11g > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
