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GyazMail

Cocoa email client.

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What about fixing indexes?

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Contributed by: garyrog Saturday, May 15 2004 @ 04:57 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

I downloaded GyazMail a couple of days ago and like it very much. I have gotten sick of crashes in Entourage and wanted to try something else, so I tried GyazMail.

It appears to store each email in its own disk file, and there is an index file for each account called MessageIndexArchive.

One thing that concerns me, a lot: if GyazMail crashes, can that index be easily rebuilt? After all, software crashes and computers freeze. Entourage and Quicken have ways of causing their indexes to be rebuilt when it happens. I think it is an essential feature.

I can find no sign of this feature in GyazMail's documentation. I emailed the developer directly yesterday but haven't gotten a response.

So I thought I should post a note here and see if anyone else knows.

This is the only issue that is holding me back from paying for the software and recommending it to others.
  

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3 comments |

What about fixing indexes? - fsvwbug

FWIW ... I have been a long time user of GM and have crashed on occasion. Perhaps 2 or 3 times in the last year+.

I've seen any index corruption ... but who knows?

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Monday, May 17 2004 @ 08:58 PM PDT


What about fixing indexes? - garyrog

Actually I got some feedback from the author of the product, who says that the indexes are automatically reconstructed after a crash!

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Sunday, June 06 2004 @ 09:13 AM PDT


What about fixing indexes? - drunkenbatman

Heh, getting a reply from the author of this program is a crapshoot at best.

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Friday, June 18 2004 @ 12:06 AM PDT