I blame CLAiT
I can do computers, I got a sestificate
Thank you Mr New Person, go play with the sensitive data
HMRC is spewing job applicants' email addresses to potential rivals in mass circular responses it has blamed on "a technical glitch". A reader got in touch to report their email address had been circulated to all other applicants in three instances. In an email seen by The Reg, the reader's address was included in a list …
Presumably if you were cc:Ed in on the mail telling someone they hadn't got the job, but you had. Or vice versa. Or to turn up on Tuesday for an Interview after being told you missed the shortlist it would be fairly confusing.... Not sure it that's what happened, but it would fit the description.
"write a plugin to stop emails with more than <x> addresses in the "TO" field from being sent."
It's fifteen years since I left a company that did that.
I don't think I've seen it done since.
Is it difficult or something to have Outlook say "this email has more addressees than your default allows. Are you really sure you want to send it?"
Course it would reduce the number of opportunities for people to do a "reply all" and people to then reply all saying "please stop replying all" (etc), which would make life a little more boring.
Not difficult at all, it's a setting in exchange, you can even exempt certain users who have access to the global distribution list.
At the very least it should be set to just less than the total number of mail accounts as that stops the reply all and means only authorised users can send to all.
Speaking of global distribution lists I wonder if the person who managed to email everyone at the Ministry of Defence (that is everyone from the Secretary of State to the chap on guard duty at station X) has recovered from his embarrassment yet :-D
Anon for a good reason....
> Is it difficult or something to have Outlook say "this email has more addressees than your default allows. Are you really sure you want to send it?"
In 2013 it is the default (a warning certainly appears with a mailing list with 21 entries, so the limit is below that).
Equally in Exchange you can apply an ACL to mailing lists, so only selected users can send to the bigger lists (been true since at least Exchange 2003).
Is it difficult or something to have Outlook say "this email has more addressees than your default allows. Are you really sure you want to send it?"
And then when they click "Yes", it pops up a box saying "Well, you're wrong", and schedules you for re-education.
Happy days.
"All external mass mailings should be authorised, approved and need at least 2 people to authenticate to a system in order for it to proceed."
And they must use two keys, turned simultaneously in keyholes too far apart for one person to reach, and the recall code is a permutation of the letters O,P,E.
"How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Mass Mailing"