Email Loop - Costs of An Email Loop

Costs of An Email Loop

• Bandwidth: Email loops use up limited bandwidth over networks.
• Processing time: Email loops will take up processing time, and could slow down other processes.
• Disk space: Automatic emails are usually stored in the mailboxes of participants.
• Human Time: Network administrators may have to intervene to fix the problem, or clean up mailboxes. Also the mailbox user/owner will have to delete the numerous responses in order to clean up the mailbox.