Large number of "A page you created was linked on Wikidata" emails to one recipient in short period of time
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	herron
	Sep 29 2017, 4:56 PM

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There are currently 2882 "A page you created was linked on Wikidata" emails in the mx1001 queue all for the same recipient. The messages appear to be legitimate in that their received headers indicate they originate from www-data on mw*.eqiad.wmnet servers.

These could be simply removed from the queue, but should we investigate further what has caused so many email messages? The volume has caused the remote side to rate limit our mail server which has pushed the number of deferred messages in the mail queue past our alerting threshold.

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herron created this task.Sep 29 2017, 4:56 PM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptSep 29 2017, 4:56 PM

herron added projects: Mail, SRE, Wikidata.Sep 29 2017, 4:57 PM

My best guess: items being created for articles on cebuano Wikipedia en-mas. Most of these articles were created by the same person.

The deferred message count for this recipient had increased to 4145. I've removed these from the queue and will continue to monitor. We may want to address this at the source if it continues.

Ottomata triaged this task as Low priority.Jan 16 2018, 7:29 PM

herron closed this task as Resolved.Jun 20 2018, 5:14 PM

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