[pmmail-list] what is the purpose of reindexing?

[Dr. Jeffrey Race]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:24:35 -0400 (EDT), Stan Sidlov wrote:

>Assuming that your subject is the real question, the purpose of reindexing is 
to make sure that all 
>email messages in the folder are actually in the index. It is possible that due 
to a bug or two your 
>index may not have the proper count of items in the folder and isn't showing 
all the email messages. 
>This is especially true if you have your PMMAIL running and the computer gets a 
BSOD. Reindexing 
>recovers any messages that didn't get written to the index.

In my case if I run the PMMail-Win98 I lose all the messages in PMMail-OS/2.
I have to reindex to get them, and vv.

Jeffrey Race
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