I assumed it was something like that which is why I didn't remove you for 
all your 'quota full' messages to HoF. :)


> Yesterday an email got stuck in the CF mail spool dir. It was a message 
> from me, to me with the daily logfile extract of issues that needed 
> investigating. It got partially unstuck at 3 AM: CF could send it but 
> since it couldn't delete the message, I got many, many, many copies.
> After 68000 messages my mailbox was full, and the rest was redirected to 
> the postmaster account, which had another 30000 or so messages by the time 
> I killed CF and removed the file manually. After that I added another 100 
> MB to my quota to queue legitimate mail and started cleaning up. The 
> problem was that Thunderbird, Outlook, webmail etc. all succumbed to the 
> number of messages. Apparently threading 70000 messages in an inbox is a 
> bit too much for them. After wasting a few hours I decided to just POP the 
> server through telnet and simply delete every message that was 6111 bytes 
> long.
>
> There is a downside to large inboxes ...
>
> Jochem
>
> 

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