emailer on Windows Beta 18

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 12620
interpreted = N
texte = I have a form that allows the user to input his email address and the emailer will confirm by sending a message to that address. I was testing it and just put the letter t in the email field and hit submit (I was testing something else, and did not care if it emailed me or not). Twenty minutes later my ISP called me saying that something was flooding their mail server and cut me off. Apparently, Webcatalog kept trying to mail to the user t and was ignoring the User doesn't exist that my ISP was sending back to it, it just kept on trying! Is there anything I can do to stop this? What happens if a user enters a legal username but mispells it?JonathanJonathan Krainak Network Manager Corporate 3 Design jkrainak@c3design.com Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: emailer on Windows Beta 18 (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  2. Re: emailer on Windows Beta 18 (Jonathan Krainak 1997)
  3. Re: emailer on Windows Beta 18 (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  4. Re: emailer on Windows Beta 18 (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  5. Re: emailer on Windows Beta 18 (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  6. emailer on Windows Beta 18 (Jonathan Krainak 1997)
I have a form that allows the user to input his email address and the emailer will confirm by sending a message to that address. I was testing it and just put the letter t in the email field and hit submit (I was testing something else, and did not care if it emailed me or not). Twenty minutes later my ISP called me saying that something was flooding their mail server and cut me off. Apparently, Webcatalog kept trying to mail to the user t and was ignoring the User doesn't exist that my ISP was sending back to it, it just kept on trying! Is there anything I can do to stop this? What happens if a user enters a legal username but mispells it?JonathanJonathan Krainak Network Manager Corporate 3 Design jkrainak@c3design.com Jonathan Krainak

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