* Stewart Dean <sd...@bard.edu>: > This weekend we had a runaway email endless loop. When it was killed > after 18 hours, my inbox had 135,000 messages in it...there were two > messages that were being endlessly sent and bounced and I'm on the > postmaster alias. Thunderbird was able to do a mass select of one of > the two messages, and deleted 65,000, but after that it locked up. I > ended up firing up Pine to do the final 65,000...whereas TBird had had > mulitple imap sessions (and failed), Pine only had one and did the job. > And even after I had done the mass delete of the other 65,000 and the > inbox was down to 2000 messages, TBird was still hiding under the covers > and telling me there were still 135,000 messages. In the end, I had to > kill the TBird profile for that account and recreate it. > > Is there a simple robust IMAP client to replace Pine (which I *think* is > no longer supported)? GUI or TTY session?
I use mutt to do IMAP and SMTP and I like it. YMMV... p...@rick -- state of mind Agentur für Kommunikation, Design und Softwareentwicklung Patrick Koetter Tel: 089 45227227 Echinger Strasse 3 Fax: 089 45227226 85386 Eching Web: http://www.state-of-mind.de Amtsgericht München Partnerschaftsregister PR 563