Stewart Dean wrote:
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'm wondering if there is something we can tell users to use when
Things Are Dire. GUI would be better since it removes one of the few
remaining reasons for a logon server
I think Evolution handles large bundles of mail really well - though on
Windows it's a bit of a mess of an application. It doesn't do single
large messages very quickly though.
Alternately, if you're using Maildir, you could always grep and rm.
Rick
