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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 672726
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Closed: Jan 2017
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OS: Chrome
Pri: 1
Type: Bug



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Autotest e-mail alerts considered harmful

Reported by jrbarnette@chromium.org, Dec 5 2016

Issue description

Various bits of code in shard_client, scheduler, and host_scheduler
can generate e-mail when the process terminates.  This is EVIL.
See bugs  671250  and 670000 for samples of why.

We should terminate the code that sends e-mail in these cases, with
prejudice.

 
To spare everyone too lazy or too busy to follow the links, the
specific problem is that such e-mail messages tend to become spam
in the face of unexpected failures, and the spam has multiple bad
effects, the most significant being that the sending account can
be temporarily blocked from sending e-mail, which causes the
important, well-behaved notices to be lost.

Labels: Hotlist-Fixit
Mergedinto: 672726
Status: Duplicate (was: Available)

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