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How to force wdseml files creation ?

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Hi, in Thunderbird, you can activate the Windows Search ability to find strings in your emails. To do so, it's in Options\Advanced\General\System integration (I hope my translation is ok). When I open an email, it now creates a corresponding wdseml file. Great. However, Windows Search can only find strings in already created wdseml files. I would like to know how to force the creation of all the wdseml files related to all my emails, without opening them manually. Does anybody know how to do that ? ATB

Hi, in Thunderbird, you can activate the Windows Search ability to find strings in your emails. To do so, it's in Options\Advanced\General\System integration (I hope my translation is ok). When I open an email, it now creates a corresponding wdseml file. Great. However, Windows Search can only find strings in already created wdseml files. I would like to know how to force the creation of all the wdseml files related to all my emails, without opening them manually. Does anybody know how to do that ? ATB

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Hum, it looks like Thunderbird slowly but surely creates all wdseml files. I don't know in which order it does it, that why I did not see it creating the files when I looked at a folder it did not processed yet. I hope it will effectively create files for all emails. Sorry for disturbing !