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AFrog

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May 10, 2008, 3:35:51 AM5/10/08
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Is there anyway to manually force deletion or clearing of the outbox
in ZxMail?

It looks like there's a bunch of dead/zombie junk left in "OUTBOX.etb"
so periodically it tries sending this again and again so I'm left with
huge log files and wasted bandwidth/cpu cycles...

It's a binary file and looks like stuff I need is in there, but I
can't figure out the format. I tried deleting the file, but ZxMail
doesn't like to start up in that case.


Thanks,
Isaac

William L. Hartzell

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May 10, 2008, 9:19:18 PM5/10/08
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Sir:

Did you try Just open the outbox folder and delete the files therein?
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Thanks a Million!

AFrog

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May 12, 2008, 3:07:09 AM5/12/08
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On May 10, 6:19 pm, "William L. Hartzell" <wlhartz...@tx.rr.com>
wrote:

No, that's the problem. The OUTBOX folder is actually empty.
This stymied me for quite a while as the logs were reporting message
re-sending tries, but nothing in the outbox. At first I thought it was
some hackers/spammers trying to get through my e-mail server. After
some digging, that's when I realized it was leftover junk in the
OUTBOX.ETB file instead by viewing the file (I found the exact message
numbers that it kept trying to re-send).


Isaac

William L. Hartzell

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May 12, 2008, 9:44:42 PM5/12/08
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Sir:

Delete the program and reinstall.

Marty

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May 13, 2008, 3:56:38 AM5/13/08
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William L. Hartzell wrote:
> Delete the program and reinstall.

That's funny... I thought this was an *OS/2* newsgroup. ;-)

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Percival P. Cassidy

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May 13, 2008, 10:27:31 AM5/13/08
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On 05/13/08 03:56 am Marty wrote:

>> Delete the program and reinstall.

> That's funny... I thought this was an *OS/2* newsgroup. ;-)


The OP posted using SeaMonkey 1.1.9 for OS/2. zxMail isn't a program
with which I was familiar, but when I Googled it, I found:

http://www.zeryx.com/English/index.shtml

And on that page the following:

"Our main product is ZxMail© email Server the email server for OS/2,..."

Perce

Marty

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May 13, 2008, 12:04:46 PM5/13/08
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I was talking about the solution, not the problem. ;-)

William L. Hartzell

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May 13, 2008, 4:04:44 PM5/13/08
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Sir:

The problem is the author has discontinued support for the product.
This bug, I have not encountered and I use the product daily, I assume
is not common. The quickest way to fix the indexes, since he was unable
to delete & rebuild them, is to remove the product and start again.
Sometimes the solution is remove and reinstall.

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