We went on a boat trip for work Monday…someone decided to send out 100megs of photos to each user…something like 60-70 emails accounts…
[LEFT]Subject: Great boat trip. Great pictures. Great big “oops”.
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We hit a little snag in our email system early this afternoon. Everyone eager to share the pictures of Mondays staff boat trip overloaded our email system. This occurred when a large volume of LARGE picture files were emailed around the office. To avoid this happening in the future, if you want share your photos, try using a free service like photobucket.com. This will avoid major problems with our email system and make it easier for the viewer as well as the send.
For now, if you received boat trip photos, please save the few that you want to keep and delete the rest. This can be done by deleting the email, then by emptying your trash in outlook.
That concludes our lesson for today! Thanks everyone.
We had this problem last summer. People using an external exchange server hosted on a residential DSL connection to fucking send 50mb of pictures in emails.
Made the exchange policy REAL quick after I got paged at 7am asking why email was so slow.
wow you are way nicer to people than i am about shit like that. someone at our place sent out a marketing advertisement to about 30 internal people and about 500 external people, kept it in .tiff format :bloated: 24 mb.
I get notifications if anything spikes over normal usage, so basically as soon as we saw exchange go crazy, then our T1, went and looked at the queue, deleted all of the messages and sent him and email saying. “Do not ever do this again, if you want to send out a picture to the outside world from our email systems call IT first.”
this was a director. he has not emailed a picture since. :lol:
