Paul Lesniewski wrote: > Don't top-post. PLEASE READ the mailing list posting guidelines before posting. > >>> <jeremy.bromley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Hi folks, I have a domain that has too many emails on it's admin account >>>> to >>>> download, and has filled up their quota. I need to delete the emails >>>> (it's >>>> just junk email and the address hasn't been used for 2 years). I can't >>>> seem >>>> to download them though as I just get errors saying "Cannot download - >>>> too >>>> many mails" ... sigh - Any help would be most appreciated. >>> You don't "download" email with SquirrelMail - it only reads messages >>> on the server and leaves them there. SquirrelMail also does not have >>> any errors that say anything about "download - too many mails". It >>> sounds to me like you might be using a POP mail client (Outlook?), not >>> SquirrelMail. You may need to contact your service provider instead. >> TOOO Many emails is my own description. >> >> The error I was getting was a timeout error, I was using SquirrelMail >> web-client. It just can't seem to process the amount of emails there. There >> are about 103,000 on the list. > > Unless you've done more research on SquirrelMail performance and > optimizing, and include useful information for us to help you with, > there's nothing anyone can do for you. > This is the "Admin" account, Jeremy do you have root access? If so, and if as you say you don't need the mail, then just delete the mail spool (usually /var/spool/mail/user or /var/mail/user). If you don't have root access, the call somebody who does and have them do it. I guarantee that will get rid of the problem:-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
