Okay, this is not really related to anything, but some of you may find this interesting:

http://frank.rietta.com/fun/downloading-mail.gif

Best regards,
Frank Rietta

oh my..
1382 of 7472... hmm How long did you take to download all the files?

that's got to suck.....

I inadvertingly pissed off an entire group of students at a school in Hong Kong about 5 years ago and was sent near 10,000 emails in an hour or less. I was also on a 14.4K modem connection. Luckily they were all pretty small emails, but the shear number and total of bytes, just wouldn't have been possible and I had to call my ISP and have them delete them and lose other messages too. That was not-fun too.

Hehe. It actually only took about 20 minutes, but I am on a cable modem. I had totally forgotten about this particular mailbox until I saw the list of files taking forever to backup onto a tape. I tried deleting them as the root user, but "rm *" returned an "argument list too long" error!

Best regards,
Frank Rietta

..Just wish my sales@ was that full each morning :)

Cheers

Craig

Originally posted by AtlantaWebhost.com
Hehe. It actually only took about 20 minutes, but I am on a cable modem. I had totally forgotten about this particular mailbox until I saw the list of files taking forever to backup onto a tape. I tried deleting them as the root user, but "rm *" returned an "argument list too long" error!

Best regards,
Frank Rietta

Next time, if it happens again or you run into such a problem; instead of being prompted for deletion, just force it with -f. Of course, that won't likely bypass that error, so delete the directory the files are in, since you're deleting all the files anyway within it, with "rm -rf ./directoryname". Or, you can write a script, (Shell, Perl, whatever) that opens up the directory and loops through and deletes each file within it one by one, very quickly, without the error -- which can also be selective to not delete files by certain names and bypass sub directories, etc.

lol.. i remember, i was testing this app ones, which would email a message to a few email addreses, and i bombed myself using it... baaaah! :)

Had something similar to that.

Setup a cron job to run a PHP script, only thing was that PHP had been upgraded and Zend Optimizer hadn't - and we all know what happens, PHP outputs to stdout that the Optimizer is out of date - cron doesn't like it and sends out an error email. I was away for the weekend, when I got back I had about 5,000 emails from cron telling me the job had failed.