How to spam yourself...
File this under learning experience. I was setting up a syslog server and clients this weekend on my network. Two rather innocent seeming configuration options cascaded into a deluge of email to my main account. How did this happen you might ask? I was having configuration issues with syslog-ng and wanted to verify that log information was being created by the router to determine if the problem was on the client or server. I decided to speed up the log generation by implementing a rather restrictive firewall rule. I also turned on the routers' smtp server so it would email the log files. What I forgot to do was turn off the firewall filter when I was done. This generated 100s of large log files. If you sent me an email between Friday night and noon Monday, it's going to be awhile before I find it. The one upside is I now have a lot of information logged on the syslog-ng server to play around with.