# Extreme memory usage due to bad mail credentials

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/extreme-memory-usage-due-to-bad-mail-credentials/120080>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Tags:** server-resources\
**Created:** [June 11, 2019, 9:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/extreme-memory-usage-due-to-bad-mail-credentials/120080 "2019-06-11T21:46:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2019, 7:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/extreme-memory-usage-due-to-bad-mail-credentials/120080/12 "2019-06-12T07:43:33Z")

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If you don’t log in to the site (and don’t have other monitoring set up) you can’t know if it stops being able to send email. There isn’t a way to program around an admin who ignores the site altogether.

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