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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 02:04 PM Apr 2016

Snafu! BT funnels all customers' sent email into one poor sod's inbox

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/19/bounceback_blunder_borks_bt_boxes/

The UK's biggest broadband provider BT redirected its customers' outgoing emails to a single account for three hours on Tuesday.

The telco said the flooded inbox was an internal account it uses for test purposes and not a random unlucky subscriber. While BT did not provide details on the reason for the disruption, it appears to be the result of testing or maintenance gone awry.

"A small number of customers reported an issue sending emails earlier. Sorry about this, it's fixed now," BT said in a statement to El Reg.

"The mailbox in the delivery failure notification was for internal/test use and appeared in error, sorry for any confusion that caused."
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