Re: Directory Overload

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 17520
interpreted = N
texte = >Using Webcatalog, I managed to send out about 9900 emails last night (on >purpose). Unfortunately one piece of mail is bad, so emailer just sits >there spitting out an error (120) probably because of a bad email >address. There are still 8700 items in the EmailFolder (on a mac-normal >HFS drive), so to say the least, It is impossible to open the folder to >delete the one offending piece of email. I'd just as soon delete the >entire directory, but I can't take the risk of running the email sending >job again only to send someone the same piece of email twice. I am using >emailer 1.0 ?(webcat 2.01). Why doesn't emailer just give up on a bad >piece of email and kick it into a reject folder and move on??? >Can someone help? Is there a 3rd party program that can open the directory >quickly and delete one file? > Have you tried the finder find command? It could work even when we can't open a folder. Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Directory Overload (Brian B. Burton 1998)
  2. Re: Directory Overload (bob 1998)
  3. Re: Directory Overload (Sandra L. Pitner 1998)
  4. Re: Directory Overload (helene 1998)
  5. Re: Directory Overload (Dave MacLeay 1998)
  6. Directory Overload (Brian B. Burton 1998)
>Using Webcatalog, I managed to send out about 9900 emails last night (on >purpose). Unfortunately one piece of mail is bad, so emailer just sits >there spitting out an error (120) probably because of a bad email >address. There are still 8700 items in the EmailFolder (on a mac-normal >HFS drive), so to say the least, It is impossible to open the folder to >delete the one offending piece of email. I'd just as soon delete the >entire directory, but I can't take the risk of running the email sending >job again only to send someone the same piece of email twice. I am using >emailer 1.0 ?(webcat 2.01). Why doesn't emailer just give up on a bad >piece of email and kick it into a reject folder and move on??? >Can someone help? Is there a 3rd party program that can open the directory >quickly and delete one file? > Have you tried the finder find command? It could work even when we can't open a folder. helene

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