Pegasus Mail & Mercury

Did you try the System mailer button in tools, options, hyperlinks tab? Maybe win8 wants you to run as administrator to make system changes. Try running setpmdefault.exe from same location as where winpm-32.exe is installed while winpm-32 is closed and then restart winpm-32.

markflint:Quick question on this topic: If I want to port my address books and email file folders to a different computer that has Pegasus installed will copying the PMM, PMA AND CNR files to the PMail folder do the trick? Old computer is XP, new one Windows 7 Are you currently using Pegasus Mail from a server machine install? Was that a typo ...

Dioxazine:Every time I open Pegasus it just sits there not retrieving any new mail. I looked in Settings and that box about automatically opening the new mail folder at startup is already checked. Surely there is a way to get Pegasus to retrieve new mail upon starting the program. That is only one setting of at least two necessary Check Tools, ...

The images that produce icons and buttons and backgrounds can be viewed outside of winpm-32 with a graphics viewer application even when winpm-32 is closed. How do they look in your system and on your screen then? What version are you using. Let us know and we can point you to the image files and directory and file type. All the v4.61 and later ...

alkemyst:I was doing it right  then....everything came back as ''UNKNOWN'' and with corrupted stuff when viewing in PMAIL.    I pulled in all PMM, PMI and CNM files. Make sure none of the restored files are marked R (read only) at OS level by the backup or restore program. WinPMail must have full access to all files and none ...

http://www.vandenbogaerde.net/pegasusmail/pf_pmfiles.htmlreference for files and names. You will need all the *.pmm and *.pmi file pairs and any *.cnm files at the least. When you install winpm-32 be sure to install to the c:\pmail location only.Then restored files will be placed into c:\pmail\mail\admin location for example.

Reader font and size and Editor font and size are set separately. When you start a reply with quoted msg text your reader font is used and when you begin Edit or start new message your Editor font and size are used. Use the big f on the top main toolbar to set each preference while working with that function. Replies to HTML messages are using ...

erchess:I have forgotten how but for a while I got rid of the preview plane but now it is back. How do I get rid of it, preferably forever? If I find out that an update to pmail changed my settings I will get rid of pmail. Any help appreciated. On the top main toolbar push the List button to return to list mode. That will get rid of the Preview ...

Tools, General, Basic check the block to leave read mail in new mail folder.

The message probably has improperly formatted date and time on the date: line. We would need to see the full header portion only of the raw view of the message - just from the first blank line up to the top of header portion. The date and time requirement of RFC5322 is fixed and rigid and there can be no variance.