Excellent idea - but... It doesn't appear to work on my system. Do I need
to specify the spool location or are you picking that up from the registry?
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Terrebonne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, March 30, 2001 10:41 AM
Subject: [IMail Forum] ScanSpool.exe (Update)
>ScanSpool has been updated to perform a more comprehensive scan of the
>spool. One misunderstanding that I have encountered is that ScanSpool does
>not scan the log files, it scans the actual messages in the spool. It was
>created to get a current snap-shot of the spool rather than a history of
>spool activity. If any of you have ever had a massive spool, you'll
>understand the reasoning behind this.
>
>As a companion to ScanSpool, I created another prog called KillMsgs.
>This program will search the spool for email addresses or substrings
>contained in the specified header fields and either delete the messages or
>simply list the files that the strings where found in.
>
>An example usage of both programs is if you run ScanSpool and determine
>that you have 10,000 messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED] clogging up your
>spool. You can then run KillMsgs and remove just the messages from
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] from the spool without affecting any other messages.
>
>ScanSpool can be downloaded from here:
>http://dev.myownemail.com/imail/ScanSpool.htm
>
>KillMsgs can be downloaded from here:
>http://dev.myownemail.com/imail/KillMsgs.htm
>
>Again, I hope this can help out others.
>
>Chris
>
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