William,
i had the same problem - powermail got stuck indexing about halfway 17.000 messages and ended up in the dreadful loop. the indexing gets stuck on 1 or more messages that are 'corrupt'. since powermail starts indexing where it stopped as soon as you launch it after force quit, it hits the 'corrupt' message right away, goes into loop before you can turn off indexing (which solves the problem but you can't profit the new search performance at full speed). to find the 'corrupt' message you can export each folder (+ subfolder separately), if one folder fails to export because of memory failure, the message is in there. narrow down the content of the folder by moving messages to a temporary folder until you find it. delete the message and you should be able to start up powermail. however, turn off indexing right away. i have one message still in my trash which doesn't want to go when i empty trash. if i start indexing and the indexing process comes to the trash, i'll hit the loop again. so i'm waiting for the powermail team to solve 2 problems, how can i use the new super-indexing system?, and how can i get rid of that one 'corrupt' message in my trash? ddv >Hmm, so it's not the size. Powermail *was* handling mine fine for a few >days, but now I'm stuck in an endless loop ... no matter what start up >fixes I apply, once PowerMail finally comes up it flashes a dialog box >saying it doesn't hae enough memory. If you click OK it just comes back >again. The only way out is to force quit, which means it needs to >rebuild everything again at the next startup. > >The memory problems first started when I asked PowerMail to rebuild the >index (to deal with *another* problem). It seems stuck in a cycle of >unhappiness at doing that. I've tried canceling the indexing in the >little progress bar before the memory error pops up, but I can't get >its attention fast enough. If I revert to a saved version of the >PowerMail files (about a day old) then everything is O.K. So maybe I >could selectively copy some "good" files from that folder to make this >problem go away. If anyone has had similar problems and successfully >resolved them, I'd appreciate hearing how. I don't plan to continue >with PowerMail right now, but I would like to get my hands on that lost >day's mail (I thought I had told PowerMail to leave messages on the >server, but apparently not).
