Using MS Outlook, I set up a filter with "RE: friend in coma" for both subject and body and ran it on my inbox.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Power Computing List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg > & Rachel Olson > Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 12:09 PM > To: Power Computing List > Subject: Re: How did you handle the over 3000 messages in > your e-mail software? > > > Depends on your mail server... I have my own server which is > slackware linux based, so I could have used procmail to create a > filter and delete them at the server level when they came in, but I > did not. I was away from home when this happened, and I was on > dialup. I just created a filter in Eudora (on OSX) and sent them to > the trash automatically when they downloaded. It took a couple of > hours, but I was not at the computer while they were downloading. > > The best thing to do would be to have the mail-list (listmon where > are you?) install a flood control. This would limit these types of > loops. > > Greg > > >I tried to see if I could go to my server and delete all the > messages > >in the inbox. I could find no way of doing that. I ended up > downloading > >all 3600+ messages to my Outlook Express e-mail software and > deleting > >from there. But It wasted a lot of my time. I'm going to > check with my > >server sysops to see if we can get a better way to handle this. > > > >Anybody have an idea on how to kill all the messages in the inbox > >without having to download them to the local harddisk? What > if I was on > >dial-up? Sheesh! > > > >Sean Kennedy > > > > > >-- > >Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > > >123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> > > > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > > >Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> > > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > >Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> > >To unsubscribe, email: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >For digest mode, email: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >List archive: > > > ><http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > > >iPod Accessories for Less > >at 1-800-iPOD.COM > >Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal > >www.1800ipod.com > > > -- > Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> > To unsubscribe, email: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > List archive: > > <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > iPod Accessories for Less > at 1-800-iPOD.COM > Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal > www.1800ipod.com > -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
