Another day, another Rocketbox release! In all seriousness, I didn’t intend on putting out another release so soon. However, I corrected some serious bugs and wanted to get the fixes in user’s hands ASAP. There are two important fixes and one minor tweak that is helpful for users with huge amounts of e-mail.

The first fix is for an issue where some e-mails weren’t being read properly (do to encoding issues). What this means is that some e-mails weren’t being indexed and they were missing from the search results! If you’ve had missing search results this is most likely the culprit. Download this version and it will reindex your e-mail, then try your searches again. If that doesn’t help then get in touch with me at my support page.

The second fix is semi-embarrassing. I have debug hooks in the app that dump logs into ~/Library/Application Support/Rocketbox. Those logs usually get cleaned up and it’s no problem. However, I disabled the code that cleans up the files during testing and forgot to enable it! So there is some crud in that folder, but Rocketbox 1.0.3 will automatically clean it up.

The final tweak is a “hidden” preference for setting how often Rocketbox indexes. I haven’t exposed it in the user interface but I wanted to let the users that really need have it ASAP. You don’t need to change this unless you have tons of e-mail. When I say tons I mean over 250,000 messages. If you do want to change it do this in the terminal:

defaults write com.apple.mail RocketboxIndexingPeriod -int 300

This sets Rocketbox to index every 5 minutes (by default it is every minute). The value is in seconds. Once again, you most likely don’t need to change this.

Official release notes are below:

• IMPORTANT: This release requires reindexing which happens automatically after launching Mail
• Fixes a major bug where some messages were skipped during indexing due to an encoding error.
• Adds a hidden preference for controlling the frequency of indexing.
• Fixes an error where debug logs weren’t being cleaned up in Application Support