Mail Bomb

[Bryan]

I am currently working on an old computer that has me dumbfounded. IBM K6 300
18,000 Messages were downloaded by a client (because the IT person at the
ISP was to lazy to go back to the mail server and delete a mail bomb that was
sent)

Only 4952 of the messages show up on the inbox went Outlook Express boots
up. The inbox program starts loading becomes unstable and will loop itself
over and over. You can hear a rhytm to it after a couple of hours;).

Free space on the hard drive was/is still around 26 GBs. He doesn't want a
clean reinstall because of the other business information on the computer. Is
there a stinger program that will correct this issue or a manual file removal
that can occur under my computer or dos prompt??

Thanks for your time.

[DGuess]

Post by Bryan
I am currently working on an old computer that has me dumbfounded. IBM K6 300
18,000 Messages were downloaded by a client (because the IT person at the
ISP was to lazy to go back to the mail server and delete a mail bomb that was
sent)
Only 4952 of the messages show up on the inbox went Outlook Express boots
up. The inbox program starts loading becomes unstable and will loop itself
over and over. You can hear a rhytm to it after a couple of hours;).
Free space on the hard drive was/is still around 26 GBs. He doesn't want a
clean reinstall because of the other business information on the computer. Is
there a stinger program that will correct this issue or a manual file removal
that can occur under my computer or dos prompt??
Thanks for your time.

Inbox.dbx may be bad, rename it then restart OE. the messages will no longer
be there but you might try this to import them into the new Inbox.dbx file
that is created when OE starts.

Create a folder C:\Mail
Copy the "old" Inbox.dbx file to this folder. Rename it back to Inbox.dbx if
you happened to rename it.
Copy the Folders.dbx file to the same folder. This file is required for
importing.

File | Import | Messages | Microsoft Outlook Express 6 | Import mail from an
OE6 store directory.
Press OK
Press Browse nd navigate to the C:\Mail folder.
Select it to highlight it then press OK
Finish up the import.

Hopefully that will get it.

There is also a program called OEX available at http://www.oehelp.com that
may help. It's not free but real handy.