And I am not amused.

I have had gmail running with this host for over 12 months, never any problems. They werent to keen that it was a perl script, but they let me install it anyway.

Everything was fine until yesterday. I decided to do some clearing up and was trying to purge the users trash cans...

Over 1200 mails would be deleted... great i thought.. so I clicked 'yes' im sure.. and it sat there, and sat there and sat there..... some more... 20 mins later it is still sitting there,.

Couple of hours laer i received a message from my host. As I figured it was me who brought the server down, i explained what i was trying to do.. apologized profusely. Whilst i was messaging back and too, I tried to log into admin again, same thing. The server load went to over 100, so he deleted the login and admin files. changed ownership on the dirs and basically im buggered.

Is there any reason why it would fetch up so drastically when trying to purge messages...

incidently this was the first time i have ever used the purge messages option, i usually use the purge users who havent signed in for x amount of days...

so any info would be gratefully appreciated..

Does gmail come in php/mysql flavour??

Sorry for ranting.. im a bit annoyed..

Thank you

Tracy