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Automated way to reindex all folders?

I went to the "way-back"

machine and came up with PREBUILD.EXE from the DOS 3.50 release. Only

problem with it is that it seems to work only with bindery mode

mailboxes (even though PMAIL 3.50 is NDS aware...).

Anyone have any ideas on using PREBUILD in a batch file and have it "see" NDS mail folders?

I asked and got this from David:

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> Is PREBUILD.exe a bindery only program or does it also work with NDS?

Jeepers! I had to find and read the source just to remind myself what this program actually was!

It hasn't been updated since 1994, so I can't offer any guarantees about it. From the source, it *looks* as though if you specify a full path to the PMM file of a folder on the commandline, it should work in any mode.

You'd do much, much better to use the MbxMaint utility that now ships with WinPMail though.

Cheers!

-- David --

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<div class="ForumReplyToPostArea"> <blockquote><blockquote><p>I went to the "way-back" machine and came up with PREBUILD.EXE from the DOS 3.50 release. Only problem with it is that it seems to work only with bindery mode mailboxes (even though PMAIL 3.50 is NDS aware...).</p></blockquote><blockquote><p>Anyone have any ideas on using PREBUILD in a batch file and have it "see" NDS mail folders? </p></blockquote></blockquote><p>I asked and got this from David:</p><p>Quote</p><blockquote><blockquote><p><b>> Is PREBUILD.exe a bindery only program or does it also work with NDS? Jeepers! I had to find and read the source just to remind myself what this program actually was! It hasn't been updated since 1994, so I can't offer any guarantees about it. From the source, it *looks* as though if you specify a full path to the PMM file of a folder on the commandline, it should work in any mode. You'd do much, much better to use the MbxMaint utility that now ships with WinPMail though. Cheers! -- David --</b> </p></blockquote></blockquote><p>End Quote </p><p> </p><p> </p> </div>

Is there an application or script that I can run to re-index all folders? How about compressing all folders?

 

TIA 

<p>Is there an application or script that I can run to re-index all folders? How about compressing all folders?</p><p> </p><p>TIA </p>

[quote user="bryroller"]

Is there an application or script that I can run to re-index all folders? How about compressing all folders?

 There is a utility that comes with WinPMail PB1 called mbxmaint.exe that will allow you to do this sort of thing.

TIA 

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[quote user="bryroller"]<blockquote><p>Is there an application or script that I can run to re-index all folders? How about compressing all folders?</p></blockquote><p> There is a utility that comes with WinPMail PB1 called mbxmaint.exe that will allow you to do this sort of thing. </p><blockquote><p>TIA </p></blockquote>[/quote]

Thanks Thomas -

 

That helps but I was hoping to script the re-indexing and it seems to only let me do compression and checking of the folders. Any tips anyone can offer to help with this?

<p>Thanks Thomas - </p><p> </p><p>That helps but I was hoping to script the re-indexing and it seems to only let me do compression and checking of the folders. Any tips anyone can offer to help with this? </p>

I went to the "way-back" machine and came up with PREBUILD.EXE from the DOS 3.50 release. Only problem with it is that it seems to work only with bindery mode mailboxes (even though PMAIL 3.50 is NDS aware...).

 

Anyone have any ideas on using PREBUILD in a batch file and have it "see" NDS mail folders? 

<p>I went to the "way-back" machine and came up with PREBUILD.EXE from the DOS 3.50 release. Only problem with it is that it seems to work only with bindery mode mailboxes (even though PMAIL 3.50 is NDS aware...).</p><p> </p><p>Anyone have any ideas on using PREBUILD in a batch file and have it "see" NDS mail folders? </p>
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