Had you noticed the "Add to Dict" button on spell-checker dialog?

Martin 

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I suppose FROM and SUBJECT in your example are encoded, because they include non-7bit-characters.

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OK. Thank you. 

This is probably the reason why I often cannot find what I am looking for when my search terms contain Danish characters.

- Henrik

Thanks, Brian and Guy.

I found the option to 'Remember and apply each folder's sorting mode separately'.  It was ticked, so I unticked it, thinking that I could then have them all sort by date.  Then I went into one of the folders that was correct (sorting by date), and it was still by date.  I then went into one of the problem folders and it was still by sender, but this time, when I clicked on sort by date, closed it and reopened it, it had kept the sort by date.

The folders now seem to be behaving normally - which I find a bit odd.  I'd expect that, having unchecked the 'remember and apply...' they would now all have the same sorting, but they don't!

Guy - under grouped views each had none (normal view) ticked?

They are now doing what I want them to do, so thank you.

All is good at the web site Today.

OK. Here is the solution I have developed for comparing the total contents of 2 sets of Pegasus mail folders, for instance all your current mail folders and a backup of them!

It's somewhat cumbersome, and I am not sure if it's perfect. Note, that I am comparing the total content of the 2 sets, NOT the content of individual folders, because I am not interested in looking at mails that have simply been moved from one folder to another.

You need:

PmailUnDup (the newest version I was able to find was v. 2.22 - on my own PC).

A text or document compare program like CSDiff (or MS-Word).

A spreadsheet like MS Excel Starter 2010. I tried OpenOffice 3.3 and 3.4, but there is an error in the import-text-files function that makes it very cumbersome, at least with Tab-separated fields.

The DOS commands 'copy' and 'sort'.

First you put the 2 sets of folders in 2 directories. We can call them dir-before and dir-after.

In each of these directories you do the following:

1. Use PmailUnDup to create Tab-separated text-file copies (or maybe CSV-files) of all folders (actually all PMI-files).

(You can use the statistics-function to see the total number of mail messages (and addresses) in the directory.

2. To merge all the text files into one, open the MS DOS command prompt and change the directory to where all these text files are stored. Now issue the command 'copy *.txt target.txt'

3. Import the text file in MS-Excel, but excluding the first 4 columns. Because they contain information that relates to the specific folder the message is from.

3B. Later it turned out that about 10% of all my mail messages had had there size in bytes (fsize - last column) incremented by 1, in the index-folders in the newest set. Very strange! And there were other Pegasus-peculiarities...! To minimize the problem I divided all values in the fsize-column by 10, in both sets, with this Excel formula: "=INT(F2/10)".

4. Save the file as a text-file.

5. Sort all lines (rows) of that text-file alphabetically with an MS-DOS-prompt-command looking more or less like the following:

Sort "target BEFORE fromCol5 fsizeDIV10.txt" /o "Sort output BEFORE.txt"

5B. Maybe you can do the sorting directly in Excel, before saving it, but the DOS-command is very fast.

Now you have 2 alphabetically sorted lists of all your mail from the 2 sets of folders. To compare them and see the differences I suggest you use the free program CSDiff. Choose Options! I suggest "Display line numbers", "Only show changed lines", and Show '1' unchanged line surrounding.

That's it!!

Best regards,

Henrik Rosenø

Thanks. I changed the winsock setting and it works now.

If that is the case then 12 users it is.  There is a way to create a

default user profile (PMDFLTS.INI file) that gets utilized each time a

user is created.  The details are in a Pegasus Mail Network

Administrators Guide that goes back to v3.2 but I suspect the PMDFLTS.INI file will still work today. 

I attempted to check the pmail.com

website to see if this manual is still available for download but the

site appears to be down.  A Google search shows it available here:  ftp://guam.packet.org/admin.pdf

If by "radio button" you mean the "?" box located in the top right corner of some configuration windows (Internet Mail Options window for instance), it does not work.  Each configuration window contains a "Help" button that opens topic specific help for the configuration settings contained in that window. 

As for accessing help when not in a configuration window, the F1 key will open the help file on a topic specific to the active window.  You can do the same thing using the "Help" pull down menu and selecting the "Specific help" option.  Once the help file is open you can browse it by contents or index.

One thing I did for years was to keep a shortcut to the Pegasus Mail manual on my desktop often utilizing the search function of the pdf reader to help find what I was looking for.

First of all thank you for the reply. Now for an update. I got the mail to open by highlighting it and clicking the relevant icon. I don't know why it did not occur to me to try that before posting except that I prefer to open emails with a double click and for whatever reason that was not working. I don't know what a raw view is or how one would see it and I would be interested in learning. As for a message not opening I would think that a minimally competent program would display a verbal message telling in detail why a message will not open and what if anything I can do about it. I have very little patience with a computer or a program that does not explain itself in detail when it does not do what I want. I really do try to be patient with computers because I do not understand them except at the level of an operator of software so I very much admire the people who can design and make hardware and software. But my first computer as far as I remember never balked on me without giving me an unmistakable indication of what was wrong and what I could do about it. The fact that I had to restart it at least every hour and a half did not keep it from being in my memory much better than any I have had since.

Good that you got it sorted. The OLD file should be a backup of the PMAIL.INI file from the time when Pegasus was upgraded. The timestamp of the PMAIL.INI file is updated at the end of each Pegasus run.

^^^^  Like he said!

 Just found and quickly solved a connection issue to my host provider's servers. All it took was an upgrade to version 4.70. So I made a donation to help fund ongoing development, and I encourage other users to do the same!

Hi,

just to confirm: I had a very similar problem. It was not possible to send mail from different identities. 

The combination of new port, changing the security connection and using my user NUMBER rather than the name worked the miracle. I can send mail from two identities now. Yeah!

Thankful and happy greetings sends

Lilableu

Got your message. Will contact you shortly.

Regards,  Martin 

That may be, but I did not put any URLs in.  Clearly there are other reasons as well.

 BTW I figured out my problem with the "missing emails" (they weren't, just not where I expected).  Now if I could only post to the previous message...

Please read the "other" thread on this subject; 

OK, folks, here's the next chapter.  I went into my POP3 settings and unchecked the "Delete mail on server after it has been successfully retrieved" and changed the "Default action for messages still present after filtering" from "Download" to "Leave on server".  I have an XP machine and did NOT reboot, which may explain the following behavior:  I opened Pegasus and found that two messages, regardless of these settings, automatically downloaded to my New Messages folder.  I then clicked "Selective mail download" and found those two messages AND a test email from my brother on the server.  My explanation for this is that while the Pegasus settings did not reset (because I hadn't rebooted) the mail server did in fact do as I had asked -- and the messages stayed on the server.  The reason that only two messages automatically were downloaded rather than THREE was that Pegasus again "ate" the copy of my brother's email that was downloaded.  I have confirmed that all messages are still on the mail server.  Next step is to reboot the computer to see if the automatic download will stop.

I still have no idea why Pegasus is eating those messages from my brother, but at least I know that the server is retaining them. 

Fix created, and updated RssMail (3.6) is on this site at:

http://community.pmail.com/files/folders/pegadd/entry36233.aspx 

For those who use RssMail to view this site and commented out the Link Url, you can now remove the comment character (semi-colon) in RssLinks.txt. 

We're gonna need a little more info... OS, Pegasus version, previously working and just stopped? Did you confirm your mailserver password is correct?  Can you access your email via webmail or other service?

After trying reboots and chkdsk runs - - I tried opening/closing the PMI files associated with the larger email folders (I'm not sure which folder is the Mailbox) - - the problem is gone !

There are consistency checks and repairs for all of the folders except the main mailbox/inbox.  So I'm not sure what i did or could do differently - but it is OK for now.

Thanks

it worked :)

thank you

antoni