Re: Directory Overload
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 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'topen a folder.
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>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'topen a folder.
helene
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