This might only interest me, but it’s my blog, so yea…

Log into Outlook today at work, and what do I see? 118,117 new emails in my inbox. Yes, over one hundred thousand emails all of them the same ‘failure to deliver’ message. It would seem that since we removed one email account off the network, the system bounced back and forth between that former inbox and the server inbox, which is set to send a copy of anything it receives to all the emails on its list. Rumor has it the only reason it stopped at the number it did not 1 billion or so was because the inbox reached some preset limit (perhaps some hard coded limit in Outlook?).

So now the macro I have setup is attempting to move all the emails to the trash, with an estimated time of about 4 hours. I wonder if there is a faster way to do this…