@DaveK said:
@nobody said:
I went and stopped the job. Then I opened my
Mail application and it started downloading. I downloaded the first
10.000 emails, and deleted them all in bulk. Then the next 20.000. And
the next 9.000. Another 10.000, and then 12.000. The emails just kept
coming in a steady stream of bulks of 256.
We tried emailing our exchange supplier, but they could really do anything except tell me that I had 220.000 items in my inbox.
And with this, my friday was pretty much ruined.Well, sorry if it's a bit late now, but you never know when there might be a next time....
Exchange
server supports IMAP access. Install a half-decent free client
and you can use a pattern match to delete all that crud straight off
the server. Your 'supplier' should have known that.
Maybe they were aware of the Exchange bug that means that, if there are more than 65535 mails in a folder, it won't let you open that folder with IMAP... (At least, this was true last time I tried to do something similar - I sincerely hope it's been fixed now!)