Know how long it takes to download 27,955 email messages? Oh, about ten hours. It won't actually solve the problem, of course, but it's an entertaining way to spend the vast majority of your waking hours, right?

For anyone who has experienced problems with viscerate.com in the past week, the problem was that a catch-all email account had been, well, catching all emails that weren't addressed to registered users, with the result that it was full of spam. 257MB worth of it, to be precise. Given that the domain only has 300MB worth of space to play with (which, y'know, seemed like plenty back when I registered) that had been making things rather tricky.

So after trying everything I could think of from the admin panel, but being unable to empty the mailbox from there, I realised I was going to have to download all the messages. Cue the opening sentiment. And then rage at finding that no, actually, hadn't worked.

But the support staff came through, and have now emptied the mailbox. I've turned the catch-all off. We're back to 257MB of free space. It's all good.

Avagoodweekend. (I'm off to work.)