delayed delivery options and offline server = mass email send

[sditguy]

on Friday, user scheduled email in Outlook to delay send until Saturday
afternoon.

equipment failure caused exchange 2003 on SBS server to lose internet
access from Saturday morning until Sunday morning.

Local network connection was not broken, ie: Outlook clients stayed
connected to Exchange server during downtime. During downtime,
Exchange was sending thousands of delivery status notification 'delay'
messages to Outlook client regarding previously scheduled email that it
is now trying to send.

Upon reconnection of internet access, thousands of copies of the
scheduled email were sent out. User who scheduled the delayed email
received 4667 delivery status notifications.

Recipient received 9334 (double the number of delivery status
notifications) in his inbox. Needless to say, the recipient was not
having a good Monday.

WTF?? Has anyone heard of this? Very confusing, wouldn't expect
Exchange to be set to freak out as it's default action when trying to
send a delayed email and not having a connection out.

Haven't found anything in searches to explain, hoping someone out there
has an idea.

 

[Brian Tillman]

WTF?? Has anyone heard of this? Very confusing, wouldn't expect
Exchange to be set to freak out as it's default action when trying to
send a delayed email and not having a connection out.

You may get a better answer in an Exchange group, like
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.exchange.admin