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Portable Pegasus.

Dave4x4 — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:56:28 GMT

Hi.

After some local personal computer hassle (exploding PSU's!) I moved my install of Pegasus to another PC, lock stock and all. A simple bulk copy of the entire folder structure etc, via usb stick was done.

Much to my delight (but not surprise, Peg is always good to me in this respect) it all burst into life, and I could get on with things.

In the process of all this, I updated to V4.62, and was much impressed with the changes, not least the greatly improoved stability, but that could also be as much as it's now living on XP, not W2k? I digress....

However, I've decided I'd realy like to have it all on an external USB connected hard drive (FLASH sticks wear out unexpectedly I've found) so I can move "My" email system between PC's as I need. If nothing else, a pocket sized drive, is a lot easier to carry arround...

I understand from recent posts, that there is a -roam option, but unless I'm dim (always possible) I can't seem to find anything about that.

What I've tried so far, is manualy editing all the .ini files so that C:\PMAIL...... is now O:\PMAIL...... etc, also the desktop shortcut properties etc, and even the registry entries, though I find that Peg seems to update or recreate what it needs quetly in the background. Paths to the image cache, and windows noises etc, are left as is.

However, when starting Peg, I get the "user not found on this system" message, even manually entering my known good username, does not work. Whatever I do, does not seem to change that, so, and flame me for this if it's under my nose, how/what to use to allow me to do such a thing?

The portable drive in question is a 20G hard drive, with a TrueCrypt (V7.1) volume, that always appears as O:\ ('P' would have been nice, but one machine I would probably use, already has that drive allocated to a network store.) TrueCrypt itself, is not "installed", but is runable from a small (1G) unencrypted volume on the portable drive. The passphrase is a suitably obscure (non dictionary item) known only to me. This is just to protect myself, if I loose the drive, or one of it's backups.

I've found in the past, that 20G drives are large enough to do serious stuff on, but small enough to backup easily. I imagine I may need to setup some system variables perhaps, to make this easy?

OK, flame suit on, and sick bucket ready.

Regards.

Dave Baxter.

4.61 (minor) problems

vdhagen — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:09:05 GMT

A few problems with Pegasus 4.61 (because they are minor problems I put them in one posting):

the menu entry "Window" and the WindowBar present different lists. As of this version the menu entry apparently does not list open individual mails only folders
there is no "x"-button to close the queued mail folder (nor a "Window"->"Close" menu entry), but Ctrl-F4 works (same as in previous versions)
as far as I remember the previous version were satisfied to show new mail in "Folder - New mail" (when it was open?). This version insists to focus on "New mail folder"
in Folder-Preview mode one (at least I) cannot see which window is active: the selected folder and the selected mail are marked the same way. I would consider it helpful if the selection in the active window differed (same as in previous versions)

I don't know if the following is a good idea:

Allow in "Message properties" to change the date

Recently I had a mail with a date setting of 2005. I took a while to discover it in the New mail folder. To be able to find it in the Main folder I had to edit the new mail file manually.

Oskar

message windows not included in list of open windows on menu

wbrook — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:15:40 GMT

Hi all,

just upgraded to 4.61 on XP pro sp3. I've noticed the list of open windows now seems to only include the new mail folder and the folders windows. No other window open (ie a new message, a reply, the draft manager, queued messages, etc) show up. This is rather inconvenient when working with replies and opening several windows that get hidden behind others.

Is there something I need to set in order for these windows to be listed?

Thanks!

PMail Compatability with OSs

tcrisman — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:36:33 GMT

I have two questions:

1. Can PMail be run from within a virtual machine for running PC applications within a MAC?

2. Does PMail 32 or other versions run within a Windows 7 64 bit OS?

If anyone has had experience with either of these questions, I would be appreciate any your insight.

Best Regards,

Thomas

Re: Pegasus refuses to create copy to self

db82 — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:13:00 GMT

I did once again send a passel of test messages, with the same results. No copies to self, no prompts to make the same. I checked for hidden windows (the windows menu) and saw only the main folder, my folders window, and the message window I was currently sending.

I looked in System Messages (accessed from the Windows menu) and saw this:

Mon, 19:53:11 Copy-self rule processing: No messages triggered any rules.

which would seem to imply that I need to have created rules in order to copy to myself. But this was never necessary before and I've never had any such rules.

I explained (I think) in my original post that I reverted back to v4.51 when this problem first appeared and had the same difficulty with 4.51.

Re: Pegasus refuses to create copy to self

db82 — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:09:52 GMT

I apologize, I didn't see this immediately.

Your post is ironic because suddenly I'm getting more erratic behavior in my Pegasus installation. After close to two decades without any problems, suddenly message windows will only open either minimized or maximized, but not in between. I'm stumped as to why. I haven't changed anything in the configuration.

I will definitely investigate whether there's a window opening anywhere that I'm not seeing and post here. Thanks for the suggestion.

Win Vista 64 Home Premium & PMAIL 4.52 - cannot make new folders

LizMarr — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:17:35 GMT

OK, posted about this before and never got an answer, so now have set folder and file ownership to "Everyone" and installed Pegasus Mail 4.52 - still no joy. I can rename folders, I CAN'T move folders, and I can't MAKE folders. I have NOT tried to delete them since I couldn't replace the ones I have. I have tried to make and use public directories, nothing happens there. I moved a million sub-directories from my mail store just to clean things up (seem to be related to RSS I guess) Each time I try again. What is happening is that I click "Add" and no window but I can't click anywhere else. I can press ESC and the program returns to normal. Rename works, moving doesn't, public folders do not seem to work (afraid to move a fold to there - and of course can't make one there)

HELP HELP HELP I'm a long time Pegasus user and used to be contributor in the beta forums (before my health got bad ) but please, I can't have my beloved PMAIL like this. Below is the information from the "Info" tab: (the -i Liz was the latest in my attempts to get this to work)

Pegasus Mail for Microsoft Windows
Copyright (C) 1992-2010, David Harris, all rights reserved
Electronic mail to support@pmail.gen.nz.

WinPMail version: Version 4.52 (Win32), Jan 13 2010
Language resources: Standard UK English resource set
Extension Manager version: 1.13
Operating mode: Standalone
User name and ID: Liz, 0
Windows version: 6.0
Windows flag word: 0
WINPMAIL.EXE directory: C:\PMAIL\Programs
Home mailbox location: ..\MAIL\Liz
New mailbox location: ..\MAIL\Liz
TMP environment variable: C:\Users\Liz\AppData\Local\Temp
TEMP environment variable: C:\Users\Liz\AppData\Local\Temp
LAN-based SMTP support: N, N, N
NetWare MHS support: N, N, N
Built-in TCP/IP support: Enabled
- WINSOCK version: (Not loaded)
- WINSOCK path: C:\Windows\system32\WSOCK32.DLL
Commandline: -i Liz
Active -Z options: 32768
PMR variable: (None)
PML variable: (None)
MAI variable: (None)
NB variable: (None)
Autofiltering folders: 0 (0 active, 0 inactive)
Last new mail count: 2

I think I am having more permissions issues

noalternative — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:12:43 GMT

Ok, I couldn't really figure out how to solve the permissions issues on my mail folder(refer to this thread) so I reinstalled and placed the mail folder in my shared documents folder. This worked and I was able to open it, unfortunately now I cannont save my settings. Should I install the entire program in shared?