Back to work - the haha edition
Aug. 5th, 2013 11:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beelikejIt was a very exciting Monday: when I checked my mail upon arrival at work around 9 am, the program didn't respond. After a little investigating it turned out my automatic response mail had been on a loop ever since I started my vacation 2 weeks ago! An 'unable to deliver' mail had been sent around again and again and all the regular mail had gotten stuck in between.
I was able to reach the inbox through an online server and started deleting these messages. Around 1 pm Outlook started downloading mail on my computer again; it had 30,944 messages waiting in line... *gulp*
I quickly turned off Outlook to continue deleting through the online server.
As you can see the loop sent out more than a message per minute and had been doing that since July 22...
At first I could delete them by the 100, after a while I was able to expand that to 500 messages, but it still took ages. Of course I had to be sure to check for important mail in between. Fortunately the more mail I deleted the faster the process seemed to go. (small comfort;)
I finished deleting the massive amount of messages a little after 3 pm. I had just enough time to deal with the few actual mails before I went home around 5 pm.
This week business hours are reduced to 'mornings only', due to many clients still being away on vacation. If this mail mayhem hadn't happened I could have gone home at noon. *pouts*
I'm already done with this week, hrmpf. I had planned a lot of online time tonight, but I'll get back to y'all tomorrow, okay?
I was able to reach the inbox through an online server and started deleting these messages. Around 1 pm Outlook started downloading mail on my computer again; it had 30,944 messages waiting in line... *gulp*
I quickly turned off Outlook to continue deleting through the online server.
As you can see the loop sent out more than a message per minute and had been doing that since July 22...
At first I could delete them by the 100, after a while I was able to expand that to 500 messages, but it still took ages. Of course I had to be sure to check for important mail in between. Fortunately the more mail I deleted the faster the process seemed to go. (small comfort;)
I finished deleting the massive amount of messages a little after 3 pm. I had just enough time to deal with the few actual mails before I went home around 5 pm.
This week business hours are reduced to 'mornings only', due to many clients still being away on vacation. If this mail mayhem hadn't happened I could have gone home at noon. *pouts*
I'm already done with this week, hrmpf. I had planned a lot of online time tonight, but I'll get back to y'all tomorrow, okay?