At 03:27 18.02.2003, Chris Hayes said:
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>hi,
>maybe not the most professional way but my mailbox is jammed and i want to 
>clear it. My ISP host is doing some office refurnishing and needs all his 
>attention to pick the right color hues.
>So i thought maybe i can send a simple POP command to delete all mails in 
>the mailbox? It's 14000 mails since last thursday!
>Maybe using mr Lemos' POP script class?
>
>My email client eudora complains it cannot get a 'lock'- mailbox in use. 
>This can be the mail subsystem thingy keeping sending itself a warning 
>email. Ideas?
>
>BTW PHP on the server is running in safe mode,
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You might try a socket connection to your POP3 server (port 110):

Pseudocode:
>connect<
USER >login<
PASS >pass<
LIST
# will return an array of message numbers
# walk these numbers and transmit a DELE command:
foreach ($msgs as $id)
    DELE $id

QUIT


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