One of the notification systems at AdMob went insane yesterday and as a result this morning I was looking at just over 19 thousand messages in my inbox. Not that I like dealing with my inbox to begin with. And Thunderbird was choking trying to deal with the volume. Not sure exactly why, but instead of figuring it out I just pulled up the Ruby interpreter and used the IMAP support in the standard library to delete the messages and expunge them. There are probably about a dozen additional ways deal with the issue, but I thought it was a cool bit of hackery and a quick practical usage example.
Mike Rowehl
I've been working in mobile for a long time, and on internet service scalability even longer. I'm currently working on Churn Labs with some friends, hacking on a bunch of interesting mobile projects. Drop me a line if you're interested.
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I hacked together a very similar script to deal with the mailbox that gets replies to a mailing list. Then it was just a matter of translating “out of office” into the native language of all the subscribers.