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Malcolm Dunne
Toby tested the order-cancelled email on the first real customer Pip found on the list. Malcolm Dunne got four hundred and twelve of them, then rang to apologise.
The mistake
A developer needs a real address to test a transactional 'order cancelled' email, so he grabs the first name off the live customer list instead of using a seeded test account or sandbox address. The test send is then re-run in a loop with no send-count guard, rate limit, or idempotency check to stop it, so the loop keeps firing against that same real customer until it has gone out 412 times.
- testing
- customer-data
- ai-tooling
- release