Strange week at work

Earlier this week, one of the technicians at the store decided that he wanted to re-wire the ethernet cable in his work area. He accidentally created a loop-back and that caused all kinds of strange things to happen on the network. I had an awesome time trying to figure out what was causing those problems. /sarcasm


Yesterday, one of the other technicians realized that he hadn't checked one of the company's publicized email addresses in about a year. Since that email address was used in most of our ads (online and otherwise), it ends up getting a lot of spam (before I got the spam filters working well on the server). Anyhow, the forgotten account had about 25,000 spam messages left in the inbox. He also didn't realize that his spam re-direct rule was still enabled on his computer. Basically, the server was trying to send 25,000 messages to his machine, his machine was sending them back, the server was trying to parse the emails again to determine if they were spam or had viral attachments, and then the server tried to deliver the messages to the junkmail account. Anyhow, that process made the server slow to a crawl. It took me a few hours to figure that one out fix it.