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

[Stephen Eickhoff]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 21:24:11 +0700, Dr. Jeffrey Race wrote:

>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.

I didn't have this problem while I was switching my workstation from OS/2 to
Windows. Maybe it's a version incompatibility, as the OS/2 version is now
lagging. Maybe if you tried an older version of PMMail for Windows, one that
matched the OS/2 "vintage"?
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        Stephen Eickhoff
      operagost@email.com
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