You've Got Mail

A few months a go, Mr Spammer hit one of our email accounts at work with a message a second for about 2 hours. Rather than the user get bombared with junkmail notifications, the offending email account was taken outside and shot, then replaced with a nice sparkling new one.

Now having installed spamfiltering levels akin to an overzealous bouncer on crack who thinks you have been sleeping with his girlfriend, mother and pet dog, the old email address has been ressurected from the dead with IT Voodoo and reinstated to the user.

Of course, people would still be emailing her now abandoned email address so I setup a redirection back to the users reinstated email address. To confirm this, I emailed her now abandoned email address so she could see the system would simply deliver it to her reinstated email address inbox. It went like this


Email to user:

"Hi Lyn

This email should reach your inbox! If not, let me know.
Thanks

Paul"

Reply:

"No it hasn't!"

3 seconds later I had left my office to head downstairs to find out why....