Martin,

Thank you so very much for your quick and helpful response. You solved my problem. I had tried to associate with WordPad and the association wasn't allowed. But it has allowed me to associate with Notepad with ease. 

Thanks you, I'm almost a happy camper now. 

Judi :-)

Sorry, the link problem was my fault.  I didn't have it set to IE location.  I migrated files to a new computer and I had used firefox in the past.  The browser location was set to that, which now doesn't exist[:D]

Thanks for explaining how to import addresses...I'm wanting to switch to Pegasus on my work computer.

FIXED ISSUE

From my Backup - I overwrote all Mailbox files OTHER than my Distribution lists and Address Books, and everything is back to 'reasonable' shape.  Flat folders and no hierarchy, but that is fixable.

Not sure which files were the issue.  It's like losing a limb when email goes down - lol

 Thanks

Sorry, my involvment with Pegasus Mail on Netware stopped a few years ago with NW v6 so I can't help with OES at all.

This is not strictly on topic, but I found the best way to deal with email access from various devices was simply to create a gmail account for access by phones, tablets, etc. and keep Pegasus exactly as it is without the impact of filters. Once in a blue moon I delete everything in the (duplicate) gmail account.

My initial use of delete by age came unstuck when the inbox on the server reached capacity, this never happens now, gmail retrieves and leaves the email, pegasus retrieves and deletes the email.

Jerry Wise,

I can't thank you enough for the link to http://www.vandenbogaerde.net/pegasusmail/pf_pmfiles.html.

I suffered some kind of accident to my computer and have been troubleshooting it trying to recover. The only thing I've not been able to recover from has been that two of my three stand-alone Pegasus programs have somehow gotten the folders fractured and mixed together and I've been trying to somehow weed them out and bring the most current program, 4.62,  to some workable condition, but I've not been able to figure out which program files define the folders. I've used Pegasus since 1999 so my entire personal and business life is pretty well filed away in the folders and I sure don't want to lose them or access to them. It's been such a complex mess that I didn't even know how to ask questions so I could get help and have been trying to figure out what program files may carry the instructions for the program so I can find them and try to either fix them or replace them. Now that I have this list, I may stand some chance of fixing things.

 Thanks again.

Judi :-)

Hi Steffan

 Thank you for your help, I hope it works.

BTW I am a Dutch living in Australia

Regards Bill, (Willem )

Ah yes, I've just tried out TinySpell again, and out it goes. It doesn't underline all the misspelled words in the message, as MS Word, The Bat! and Eudora 7 do. Pity, because otherwise it's a really nice and neat program.

I have checked out the Order of Pegasus Mail's filtering. According to the order POP3-filtering rules are dealt with first.

Okay. In Settings for retrieving mail (POP3) I have it set to download only unread mail. I understand that and it works fine.

And set to Leave on server after filtering.

Then I set a  POP3 rule (called Age) to check message and delete if older than 10 days.

I am assuming that all these settings will first check the server and delete any messages over 10 days in age on the server.

Then download all new and unread messages leaving a copy on the server.

So I end up with a band of downloaded messages still on the server current from now back to 10 days old (so that I can check email with my ipad and still download any new stuff later when home).

Well this doesn't work because I don't get any downloaded messages and nothing is deleted off the server so I have to go to webmail and delete the old mail.

I can activate downloading for new messages by adding a second POP3 rule after the first one that says for any email between 0 and 11 days then download them. Now I get all new messages only which is okay. But I thought that this would download all messages between the period 0 to 11 days. However this works for me except that I still have to manually delete email older than 10 days from the server.

I made the mistake of clicking Delete on server and it promptly deleted ONLY the new messages which has pissed me off somewhat.

I feel that there isn't so much a bug in Pegasus but somehow I am missing a vital piece of "understanding" as  to how all this should work.

Can anyone enlighten me as I certainly don't want to lose any more new emails ?

Thanks for the response Jerry but I have many smtp definitions, on the same account as IMAP and others.

Strange thing is I tried on my home PC which has version 4.62 and it works fine.

Some time after asserting SH hiccup fix I found that it wasn't true —

Pmail/Spamhalter was failing again. I decided to find more on it,

specially on what was happening behind curtains.

One thing was very evident: Pmail/Spamhalter looses its handle on

words4.db3 file every time a new mail message or a reclassification

produced an error at System Message's pane. Something in my hardware,

OS or Pmail lead it to miss control over SH database, thus the error.

Using Sysinternal's Process Explorer I found that when working

properly, words4.db3 had this status:

On SH error, the above pane was shown completely blank, that is, no application was using wrds4.db3 file. Then I decided to change mailbox address from UNC to mapped path

notation (following a hunch), so it looked like this on Process

Explorer Search pane, after the change:

As you can see the System handle

doesn't appear with this setup. With this setup I removed the Lanman

Redirector (a middle man) from the process with a gain in speed and

no more Spanhalter hiccups so far. My fingers still crossed anyway...

I still think something may be

misconfigured in my WinXP, or maybe it's just the old hardware

signaling it will give up some day, but Pegasus Mail has been running

much better (stabler?) after this change. Unless one day I return to

LAN usage (I doubt it very much) this shall remain like this.

Just to mention, Dear Wife's machine (a

WinXP SP3 desktop) still uses UNC notation without problems, probably

because she uses it very little and the SH hiccup occurs after some

time online.

I hope this can give you more to think.

Any comments will be welcomed.

Thanks also, but I've only got the one "user" which is indeed Admin and one "identity" which is Default. I did have 2 "hosts" though and have deleted one of them so I should be sorted now. Seems a lttle over-complicated for those of us who just want to keep it nice and simple. This applies to most things these days. When it was just video recorders and car radios that you couldn't get to work, I thought I knew who was behind it. Now I'm not so sure.

Just to expand on what Steffan said, once you get your identities configured correctly you will be able to control outgoing messages as if they originated from the email account you wish.  The key is one identity per email account.  Each identity should contain an appropriate default "reply to" address and an appropriate "My Internet e-mail address is" which is configured in the Internet Options.  Test by changing a setting then sending a test message to one of your other email accounts to see what the change affected. 

 As for the spell checker, there is no way to have it correct as you go.  There is an option to configure Pegasus to check spelling before sending which insures that you always spell check before a send.  I prefer invoking the spell checker on demand

This is a shot in the dark, but in the past, I have done the following:

Make a complete safety copy of your pmail folder.

Now, working with the original, remove all the recent files (hopefully the ones created since the problem occurred).

Then re-add the files one at a time and see if that corrects the problem.  Theoretically, when you put the corrupted file back, the problem will occur.  The idea is that one of your files is corrupted, and when Pegasus recreates that file (pmail.ini for example), the problem will be corrected.  In the same vein, you might also try temporarily de-locating files in your pegasus folder that have a creation date of 2004.

Good luck! 

[quote user="Dioxazine"]

So I find that if I tick the box next to so many seconds of polling it's supposed to automatically get the mail for you. But it doesn't seem to do this very fast or smoothly for me.

[/quote]

What do you mean by "not very fast or smoothly"? If you set polling to 300 seconds, doesn't Pmail check for pop3 mail every 5 minutes?

Cheers!

[quote user="dalaca"]Re-sent problem file.[/quote]

Still no luck, did you zip it up?

If a different driver doesn't do the trick consider AlwaysMouseWheel by Nenad HRG. 

http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/AlwaysMouseWheel. 

I haven't used it but I really like his Windows Explorer replacement  Q-Dir.  A good thing about his stuff, at least the apps I've looked at, is that they are available as portable apps so can be tested without the install/uninstall aggravation.

Hi Jerry, I changed it to Always as you mentioned, and will see if any improvements. Thanks for the quick reply.

LE: I've done the changes you mentioned, and it looks that you were right, no more 50% CPU taken by Pegasus. Thanks a lot for the tip!

Ok, I think I found out (may be) what is going wrong....

I am using idw's S/MIME Front-End for email encryption.

But for few of my recipients I was unchecking the "Encrypt.." check-box for specific emails, as they had complained about some error regarding email certificate on their side (outlook express) while accessing my mail.

That's where the problem lies. If I  uncheck the "Encrypt.." box for a particular mail, I end up invariably with -

7: Socket read error 2746. 

error while sending such mails .

But if I don't uncheck Encrypt check-box, the same mails (new/reply/forward) go through properly.

How can we address this issue?

Thanks & Regards,

Rad.