Christopher Plummer wrote: >It seems like a problem with the index being corrupted, presumably by >some particular badly formatted message? I have tried the usual >techniques, trashing the index and rebuilding it, and also running the >complete set of startup rebuild functions. In fact the STL error occurs >after a complete rebuild of the index of (16,000?) messages when it >tries to optimize the index.
Try to export "your entire mail database" to the PowerMail Exchange format. As there is probably a corrupted message, this could fail. In this case, you can take a look at the exported file with a text editor (or import it to a new database - menu file / database / new user environment) to determine which message could be corrupted. Messages are exported folder by folder, and inside a given folder, by date saved. The corrupted message should be the message following the last exported message. In case you can't get rid of the corrupted message (it could cause an error when moving to the trash or using the "delete message immediately" script), you can export your messages one or multiple folders at a time (instead of exporting "the entire message database), or multiple messages at a time for the folder that you can't export without an error. Then you can create a new user environment and import your messages there. You can then copy the old "Setup Database" file to copy your accounts, filters etc to the new user environment. Note that you will need to verify all your filter that move messages to a specific folder, as the folder reference will be changed in the new user environment. Also, if you leave the messages on the POP server, you will re-download the message still present on the server; to avoid this, you can "purge retrieved messages", from the accounts dialog, on your old user environment, before switching to the new one. Jérôme - CTM Engineering --------------------------------------------------------------------- "First, PowerMail downloads mail in about half the time of Entourage. Second, it's rock solid. Hasn't crashed once (Entourage crashed regularly). Third, searches are lightening fast, very impressive facility. Fourth, it has a very nice filtering capability, at least as strong as Entourage and probably stronger (my rules sets are fairly straightforward). Fifth, it auto syncs with AddressBook without the need for external scripts like in Entourage." PowerMail user comment on www.versiontracker.com Download a demo version from www.ctmdev.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------