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If you sent me any email over the past 24-48 hours and you require a response please resend your email again.

The longer version…

During the server move I have been doing this week I made a boo-boo. I won’t go into the boring technical details but as a result of what I did over a 24 hour period my server sent out one email to me almost every second.

This is what I woke up to during my email check yesterday morning:

Yes, I had over 40,000 emails. The problem was that within that 40,000+ email there were about 30 or so real emails I needed to keep.

My plan was to log in and somehow delete the mail I didn’t want and leave just what I wanted. Obviously wading through 40,000 email manually was not going to be a short job so I wanted to use a server shortcut somehow and delete most of the junk server messages I didn’t need all at once. Even after a trip down memory lane going back to my university days playing with SSH access to my server and using the PINE email program I just couldn’t do it. There were too many emails and the server was chugging along trying to work through them.

In the end the server did a delete routine at the end of the day and moved most of the mail into an old messages folder automatically. The result of this is that I could access my current mail but I lost everything over the past 24-48 hours. I know at least 20 or so real emails were lost because I was able to scan the headers of them early yesterday, including a few emails I would like to see again.

The DNS re-delegation for the server move is still not quite over yet either so my domains and email are not quite working right so you may get a bounced mail message. If that is the case please try again tomorrow.

If you sent me any mail over the past 24-48 hours and you require a response please resend your email again.