> The key associated with certain addresses (about 5) in my main and only addressbook does not show. If I edit the entry, the key is
> entered in the field.  If I save the entry as is, the key appears in the addressbook, but the next time I enter Pegasus, it has
> disappeared again.  If I sort the addressbook by key, the entries not showing a key appear at the top, sorted as keyless.  How can I resolve
> this issue.

I would try a couple of things.

1.    Verify that all *.PMR/PM! Files are read/write.

2.    Use the addressbook reindex function to reindex the folder.

I found where you can use filtering to extract an attachment to a .txt file which you have to pre-name… my challenge is looking for a way to automate the extraction of a .zip file attachment into a selected directory … and maintaining the original .zip file name as the name of the saved file (don’t know what that name is going to be… so I cannot pre-name the file).

<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Any thought are whether or not I can “get there from here”?

Best regards,

zippes

> in reference to question #1 the link you give for getting dbxconv takes you to a german site.  I found it easier to go to
> www.dbxconv.com.  Product costs $69 seems there would a free way to import mail from OE.  Is there any other alternative?

The German mail converter I used is free.   Here's a site in English.

http://download.cnet.com/DbxConv/3000-2369_4-75185067.html

I'm trying this, but when I try to bring up the moved MAIL folder, it asks me for Username. I went back and opened the current mail folder that I had been using, and it said my Username was Admin,0.

 I tried again, using that, but it won't accept it and locks me out of the moved folder.

 I need to access the moved stuff ASAP, as I have a client waiting on something I need to do.

....

I think I got it. I found an old thread referencing pconfig, and ran that, and it appears to have worked. Looks like the move is complete! YAY! :-)

I finally got ALL my old and new emails combined, with all the saved folders and archives and even saved copies of over 45,000 emails sent since 2012.

THANK YOU guys!!!

Thank you VERY much! Just proves to me once again that I don't think to look in all the places I could!

Tassie

[quote user="tomsfiretruck"]this red area covers the whole text area. Like a background.[/quote]

It is the background, and it's a known issue fixed in the upcoming update (actually a TER/HTS issue with CSS if you're interested in details).

Love you guys!!!!!!!

Many thanks!

A file got renamed when copying over, not sure how. Anyway all fixed, thanks so much for taking the time to help

Thank you,

I'll give it a shot..

Ed Sullivan/EPS

> I have Pegasus installed on a thumb drive
> I go to location X, and it works fine.
> I go to location Y, with the same thumb drive, and he asks....
> "...In order to access your mailbox, you must first enter your Pegasus
> Mail username. Please type it in below..." As best I remember, I never
> put in a username before.  Is there a place I can find it in the
> "Mail" or the "Programs"  folder ?

Use the -ROAM commandline option.

-ROAM  This option tells Pegasus Mail that it should ignore the configured drive letter when locating user mailboxes and mail files, and should instead use the drive letter of the drive from which WINPM-32.EXE was run. If Pegasus Mail and your mailbox directories are located on the same physical drive, you should always use this option. -ROAM greatly simplifies running the program on Peer-to-Peer and non-NetWare networks, because it allows the same copy of the program to be run no matter what drive letter mappings exist on the particular workstation where it runs. This switch also allows you to install a complete, working copy of Pegasus Mail, complete with mailboxes, onto a memory stick, and to use that memory stick in any computer where it is subsequently plugged. You must not use this switch if Pegasus Mail and your mailbox directories cannot be accessed using the same drive letter. This switch is ignored and has no effect in either Novell NetWare operating mode.

Thank you. It worked!

> Is there a way to permanently and completely delete messages?  What I do is every 6 months or so I make a copy of my whole folder, rename as
> pmail-2010 or something, then delete  the old messages so that my pmail doesn't get toooo big.

After deleting messages from a folder make sure you compress the folder to remove the deleted messages.  Deleting only removes the message from the index (PMI), not the data (PMM) file unless you do the "Recover deleted space"

This should be done automatically if you delete a number of messages and have not turn on the folder compression in Tools | Options |  Advanced "Deleted space recovery" 

From the help:

When you delete a message, Pegasus Mail does not actually remove the message's data from the folder - instead, it simply marks the message as "deleted", and adds the size of the message data to an internal counter. Whenever the folder is closed, Pegasus Mail checks the internal counter to see if it exceeds a particular size, and if it does, it recovers the space occupied by all the deleted messages in the folder. If the folder is very large, or if you delete information from it frequently, this process of compression may become annoying or may take too long. Changing the value of this control allows you to tune the point at which Pegasus Mail will perform the deleted space recovery operation - setting a large number will make the operation happen less frequently, at the cost of having some of your disk space occupied by "dead" data. Setting this field to 0 turns off deleted space recovery - deleted data will never be removed from the folder, and it will therefore continue to get larger and larger over time.

The default value for this field is 24000 bytes: this value has been determined over a number of years to be a good compromise between performance and efficiency - we recommend that you do not change this value unless you have a clear specific reason fordoing so.

> > The primary purpose of Bcc: is to hide Bcc: addresses from the To: and Cc: addresses and not from others on the Bcc: list.
>
> Typically I'll use Bcc when inviting people to some function where it's not necessary or desirable for everyone to know who else is
> invited - and to make it feel like a more individual invitation, rather than a mass mailing. This would seem to be a mainstream use of
> Bcc, but apparently it's a dicey proposition...

This might be the primary purpose of home users but in the corporate world this is usually used to notify various supervisors/bosses and to hide this list from the other addresses.  The people on the Bcc: list want to know everyone who received this as well.  

If you really want to send something to a group and suppress the e-mail addresses use a distribution list with a sender field.  This will allow you to put a good e-mail address in the To: field so that the replies to the To: field do not go to all the other users.  Here's a sample of a Pegasus Mail dist. List with a sender field.  

----------------------------- test.pml ------------------------------
\TITLE Test List
\SENDER "My mailing List" <test@tstephenson.com>
\REPLYTO test@tstephenson.com
\READING Y
\DELIVERY Y
\URGENT Y
\SIGNATURE 1

techsupp@tstephenson.com
support@tstephenson.com

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[quote user="Brian Fluet"]

  Tell me, is the setting now enabled or disabled. 

[/quote]

The box was checked, now unchecked.

Many thanks for responding, David.

Yes, you infer correctly. My script detects consistency check failures and then attempts to repair the faulty folders with a "fix" phase - I'm not expecting an automagic fix ;-)

I will look into the possibility of sending you one or more examples, but there is a legal issue here and I have to be certain to avoid comebacks before I send off potentially confidential information. I'm sure you knew this - your request was rather guarded...

Yes, you can. There are at least two ways of selectively downloading mail, that I know of. I'm assuming that you've setup a POP3 account (not IMAP), otherwise you probably wouldn't be asking the question.

The "quick and dirty" way is by using the "Selective mail download" option in the files menu - but in your case, this wouldn't actually be "quick", so I'll ignore that for now.

The "clever" way is to use mail filtering. In "Tools", look for "Mail filtering rules" and then "Create/edit POP3 rule set". Create a rule (ie give it a useful name) and then edit the rule. There are lots of criteria you can filter your messages with, including date. Then you just decide what you want to do with your filtered message - download it, throw it away, leave it on the Yahoo server, whatever.

However you handle this, 40,000 emails is going to take a while, but at least mail filtering prevents the need to download stuff you don't want.

 Hope this helps.

Yes.  When you start Pegasus the next time, it will prompt you for your setup choices, and recreate the PMAIL.CFG file accordingly.

• Thank you Steffan. That worked!
  

[quote user="Sequax"]"do you wish Pegasus to collect email from multiple email accounts into multiple inboxes?"

I'd really like some help with this! I can't find a feature that assigns an email to a new mailbox or a folder.[/quote]

Pegasus is extremely flexible in this regard but with this flexibility comes complexity.  An understanding of Pegasus Mail users, identities and filters is key.  Combining them in a way that results in the behavior you want can be complex but will be logical once you understand the concepts. 

Let us know in detail exactly what you are trying to accomplish and how you have things working at the moment so we can offer guidance specific to your goals.  Include such things as:

• whether you are retrieving mail via POP3 from multiple accounts
• whether you want a Pegasus Mail "user" associated with each of these accounts
  
• whether you want a single Pegasus Mail user to retrieve mail from multiple accounts but sort it to separate folders
• whether you want to reply in all cases as the Pegasus Mail "user" or as the account holder of each account.
  

> I tried copying from the Groupwise INBOX to a  Pegasus INBOX but still cannot see any CMNfiles.

You need to move these to the Pegasus Mail new mail directory not the IMAP4 inbox.  The CNM files will be in the new mail directory as specified in Help | About Pegasus Mail | Info.