>>>>> "Julian" == Ebiz Analysis <info@???> writes:
Julian> One of my customers has accidentally sent an email cc'd to
Julian> every entry in their Outlook Address Book.
Julian> The list of addresses contained a high proportion of
Julian> invalid email addresses.
Julian> The MTA now appears to be retrying to send this email to
Julian> the entire address list once every ~10 mins.
Why the MTA - exim will only retry those addresses it failed to send
to, not all the addresses it succeeded in sending.
Julian> It has been doing this incessantly for the past 10 days.
Julian> This has resulted in the recipients with valid email
Julian> addresses receiving the mail hundreds of times. The
Julian> originating mailbox has been flooded with thousands of
Julian> NDR's.
This sounds more like an Outlook problem than an exim problem. If it
was just exim the message could easily be deleted from the queue.
Sincerely,
Adrian
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