Re: removing messages from the queue

Hi Steph,

On Jul 04, 2004, at 15:40, Steph Smith wrote:

> I've got a rather large (over 30M) message that somebody sent to me; 
> Zoe
> is choking on it. Zoe has downloaded it from my inbox, but has now 
> spent
> over 14 hours trying to process.

Your JVM is most likely running out of memory while trying to read this 
message. Try to allocate more memory resource to it:

"Run Zoe with more memory"
http://zoe.omara.ca/SystemConfiguration/CommandLineOptions

> Is there any way to remove messages from Zoe's processing queue?

Yes. Go to '<ZOE>/Library/SZ/Queues/<long hex>/' and delete the first 
(oldest) '.szq' entry.

> In the future, I can do a size filter before feeding items to Zoe's
> inbox. But it also strikes me as a useful thing to know (if it is 
> possible
> to modify Zoe's queue), in the event of any sort of possible choking.

In general, you can safely delete any recalcitrant entry from the queue.

Cheers,

R.



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