Charles Watts-Jones wrote: >I have background indexing turned on and I'm using a relatively quick >machine. My message database is around 90 Mb, and when I do search PM >can take more than 5 minutes to 'sort and optimize' my database.
You may try to compact your search index (from the menu File / Database / Compact Search Index). >Looking in my 'PowerMail Files' folder, I see that the 'Message >Database index' dates from my last major PM upgrade in October 2006 This is in fact a file package, so the Finder does not reflect the modification date of the files inside the package. Jérôme - PowerMail Engineering --------------------------------------------------------------------- "PowerMail is the email client for me for several reasons: (1) the integrity of the database, (2) the incredible searching speed, (3) the filtering system meets all my needs, (4) I absolutely LOVE the Recent Mail browser, (5) SpamSieve meets all my spam blocking needs" Sherman Wilcox, PowerMail user Download a demo version from www.ctmdev.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------