Thanks Jérôme and Matthias. I have been ignoring the message by clicking 'no'. I think you are correct Jérôme in that it is a bug since if I leave the machine for a while there are a number of msgs asking for a rebuild. These seem to happen about every 60 minutes or so if the machine is left idle.
Switching on background indexing noticeably slows down typing, not surprising as cpu uage can be up to 55% on this G5 (dual core 2Ghz) cheers, Chris On 6/12/08 PowerMail Engineering wrote: >Chris wrote: > >>Since installing PM6 each time it starts it tells me my message index is >>out of date and do I want to rebuild. > >>It could be that PM checks the index every so often and then puts the >>msg up again. I don't have indexing running in the background since >>this often caused problems going back to PM4 (I think). > >It seems to be a bug when background indexing is disabled. >Either ignore this message by clicking "no", or enable background >indexing. It is much more stable than it used to be when we were using >Apple's vtwin engine a few years ago. However indexing HTML message can >still cause some random crashes, in this case you can disable indexing >of HTML messages from the preferences. > > >Jérôme - CTM Engineering > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Foxtrot Professional Search is a fantastic application. I simply > couldn't live without it." > FoxTrot Professional Search user comment > > Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >

