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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Staging shouldn't send email outside. Period.

That's a critical bug, and I'd like an incident report on it. For how long has 
this been going on? We should also apologize to affected users.

That now put us in the same club than SalesForce. Not sure it's a good or bad 
thing.


-- 
Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

On June 14, 2010, Jeroen Vermeulen wrote:
> We just hit a problem where email sent out by a script running on the
> staging codehosting server unexpectedly goes out to users in the real
> world, not the staging mailbox.  See bug 593501.  I assume it's
> necessary for staging codehosting to send out real email in order to
> spot operational glitches.
> 
> In our case several factors conspire to exacerbate this: the fact that
> the database can have branches that don't exist in bzr in the first
> place; the fact that staging codehosting isn't copied from production so
> we get lots of these nonexistent branches there; and the fact that the
> script needs to run on codehosting in order to access branches.
> 
> I'm wondering if there may be other unexpected emails going out from
> staging codehosting that we might not be noticing.  Wouldn't it be safer
> to use a whitelisting approach here, where staging-codehosting email is
> blocked except when the code says it shouldn't be?
> 
> 
> Jeroen
> 
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