NeXT
Veteran Member
I was hooping never to do this and it finally did to one poor, poor person.
I received an email from someone who saw one of my youtube videos and was asking for help. I gladly offered some documentation and a utility program and sent it back to him attached to the email, then went to bed.
So gmail at some point I can't recall stopped accepting zip and rar files for email attachments and when Outlook passed the email to gmail to deliver it did seem to go out on gmail's end, but gmail removed the offending attachment and bounced back to the mail client that there was an error. The mail client didn't fully parse the error. It just saw there was an error communicating with gmail, so it sent the email again...and again....and again....and again.....and again.....and again.....and again.....and again.....and again.....and again.....and again.....and again.....and again...........you get the idea.
So imagine my face this morning when I see Outlook has 1600 mail delivery errors and my gmail outbox is crammed solid with the same email going to the same poor sod.... Even while I was investigating it outlook sent it two more times. Finally I manually deleted it from Outlook's outbox (which still had it marked as unsent) and it shut up.
I shall never communicate with this person ever again. Oh, that was embarrassing........
I received an email from someone who saw one of my youtube videos and was asking for help. I gladly offered some documentation and a utility program and sent it back to him attached to the email, then went to bed.
So gmail at some point I can't recall stopped accepting zip and rar files for email attachments and when Outlook passed the email to gmail to deliver it did seem to go out on gmail's end, but gmail removed the offending attachment and bounced back to the mail client that there was an error. The mail client didn't fully parse the error. It just saw there was an error communicating with gmail, so it sent the email again...and again....and again....and again.....and again.....and again.....and again.....and again.....and again.....and again.....and again.....and again.....and again...........you get the idea.
So imagine my face this morning when I see Outlook has 1600 mail delivery errors and my gmail outbox is crammed solid with the same email going to the same poor sod.... Even while I was investigating it outlook sent it two more times. Finally I manually deleted it from Outlook's outbox (which still had it marked as unsent) and it shut up.
I shall never communicate with this person ever again. Oh, that was embarrassing........
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