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 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:144428 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
