Administration

A checked version of this page, approved on 14 April 2016, was based on this revision.

Free Unused Disk Space

MailStore Home's database will automatically grow to accommodate the amount of archived mail. If you delete messages from your database, MailStore Home's database will not shrink. If you have deleted a large number of messages and want to recover some of the disk space for use by other applications, follow these steps:

Open MailStore Home.
Click on Administrative Tools.
Look for the Free Unused Disk Space section.
Click the Free Unused Disk Space button.

Search Index

If MailStore Home's search function is not returning expected results it's possible that your search index has been corrupted or damaged. To rebuild MailStore Home's index, complete the following steps:

Open MailStore Home.
Click on Administrative Tools.
Look for the Search Index section.
Click the Rebuild Index button.

Searching Attachment Contents

My default MailStore Home will automatically archive message bodies and text attachments; if you want to index additional types of attachments to allow you to search within these attachments for content you will need to configure MailStore Home to archive content within attachments.

To control which attachment types are archived, follow these steps:

Open MailStore Home.
Click on Administrative Tools.
Look for the Searching Attachment Contents section.
Add a space separated list of attachment types you would like archived. For example, you could enter doc docx xls xlsx pdf.

MailStore Home can index all file types for which a IFilter driver is installed. Typically, IFilters exist at least for all applications which are installed on the respective machines.

If, for example, Microsoft Office 2007 is installed, the corresponding IFilter drivers for Mirosoft Office documents are installed as well. IFilter drivers can also be installed independently from their applications. To learn more, please enter IFilter into any search engine.

For reasons of stability and performance, MailStore Home processes the following file types directly, regardless of the IFilter drivers that are installed:

Text files (TXT).
HTML files (HTM and HTML).
PDF files (PDF).

After changing the list of indexed attachments, you must rebuild the search index