Feeling poleaxed...
Dec. 10th, 2001 04:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI was so drained earlier this afternoon, that I took a nap from 1:30 to 3. I was awakened by a call from a translator who was looking to subcontract some work. I hope I sounded alert.
I figured the problem with my mail was my mail... but where?
Among other things, I'd been noticing that Mozilla was downloading multiple copies of the same mail message. Today, when Mozilla kept crashing trying to open one and the same message, I decided to check out the "raw" mail file, buried under about six layers of directory.
Yech. Whatever it was supposed to be, at the end of a 54 MB file, it wasn't in the correct format, so I edited it out of thel file.
Then I decided to go to the preferences and get rid of the option to leave mail on my server. I set it up that way a while back when I was moving my mail "base" from machine to machine, and was concerned about losing messages. Today, even without looking, I had a feeling that there was a lot of old mail backed up on my server.
So, I exited all the Mozilla sessions on my system and fired up the MailWarrior program, which has the neat feature of allowing me to look at mail message headers and then selectively download or delete mail messages.
There were just over 450 messages in my work account, and about as many in my personal one. I got rid of anything dated last Friday or earlier.
Back to work. I'm only 3 pages through the day, and I have a Wednesday deadline! Yikes!
Cheers...
I figured the problem with my mail was my mail... but where?
Among other things, I'd been noticing that Mozilla was downloading multiple copies of the same mail message. Today, when Mozilla kept crashing trying to open one and the same message, I decided to check out the "raw" mail file, buried under about six layers of directory.
Yech. Whatever it was supposed to be, at the end of a 54 MB file, it wasn't in the correct format, so I edited it out of thel file.
Then I decided to go to the preferences and get rid of the option to leave mail on my server. I set it up that way a while back when I was moving my mail "base" from machine to machine, and was concerned about losing messages. Today, even without looking, I had a feeling that there was a lot of old mail backed up on my server.
So, I exited all the Mozilla sessions on my system and fired up the MailWarrior program, which has the neat feature of allowing me to look at mail message headers and then selectively download or delete mail messages.
There were just over 450 messages in my work account, and about as many in my personal one. I got rid of anything dated last Friday or earlier.
Back to work. I'm only 3 pages through the day, and I have a Wednesday deadline! Yikes!
Cheers...
