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by santypk4 2678 days ago
Wow! I have to check this out. This is a common mistake, especially when you don’t know what the system does if you are new or if you are testing, last week I receive 100 emails from my ex-companye, a new employer run a script on some old staging database, 10.000 emails were sent.
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Thanks! Yes. That's a common mistake too. Like security, people understand the magnitude of this problem after the fact. All it takes is a dry run or try/catch block by a new member in the team :)