[quote user="fdavis"]

The old machine ran XP and the new one is Windows 7. The hard drive crashed on the old one, so I don't have access to it. A friend was able to salvage just the PMAIL files, so I was able to access those to get the info. Both the old computer and new one are single user machines. I don't remember which version of Pegasus I was using before the crash. Following is the information you asked me to copy in.

 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: Admin, 0
Windows version: 6.1
Windows flag word: 0
WINPMAIL.EXE directory: C:\PMAIL\Programs
Home mailbox location: C:\PMAIL\MAIL\Admin
New mailbox location: C:\PMAIL\MAIL\Admin
TMP environment variable: C:\Users\Freddy\AppData\Local\Temp
TEMP environment variable: C:\Users\Freddy\AppData\Local\Temp
LAN-based SMTP support: N, N, N
NetWare MHS support: N, N, N
Built-in TCP/IP support: Enabled
  - WINSOCK version: WinSock 2.0
  - WINSOCK path: C:\Windows\system32\WSOCK32.DLL
Commandline: -roam -A
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: 1
 

One last note: This issue doesn't seem to be causing any particular problems that I can tell. It is just annoying to have those extra lines in the directory structure.

 Thanks,

Freddy

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You have installed an older version of winpm-32 and the oldest that can work with win7 successfully. I had thought you were installing 4.62 which is the current version but I see differently. However 4.52 should work ok for now and you can then update again soon only it should be easy and routine update.

Can you do any screen shot or any directory listing so we could see what those extra lines look like and what they might be?

If necessary we might need to exchange some information via private message with attachment. Are you and old school user who might be familiar with o9erating via Command prompt and how to do directory and file listings and how to copy and save to a win7 text program like Notepad?  Have you discovered Clip yet? It sure comes in handy at times like this and I use it a lot to run commands and have it saved automatically to windows clipboard where it can then be pasted into any Windows applications.

Perfect! Thanks.

Was this ever resolved?

[quote user="Jerry Wise"]Virscan.ini would be in the \programs location or same place where winpm-32 is located. You may or may not be using Virscan extension. You can pick up a copy from the Community downloads site or from Martin Ireland home page also.
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Thanks, Jerry. I was unfamiliar with the Virscan extension for PMail. I was getting even more confused because I came across a "Virscan.inf " when I googled "virscan.ini"

I've used PMail for quite a few years without the Virscan extension so I guess I'll continue unless there's an overriding reason to install it.

 My apologies for the multiple posts in this thread. When I hit "Post" I got no indication that they went through, so I hit it a few more times.[:(] I hope a moderator can delete the excess.

Jim

Thank you, David.  I'll just start immediately writing the attachment in the destination folder instead of doing it later.  That really is more efficient anyway.  I appreciate your help.

[quote user="aurora data recovery"]The consequences of this bug are obviously of great concern.   Apart from today's 615 incoming messages, we have well over 20.000 ( unreadable)  messages archived in individual client folders.

[...] 

We are most grateful for any assistance.[/quote]

Do we get some feedback about the suggestions made in this thread? I'd also like to suggest trying a modified cache path for IERenderer (via its configuration dialog) if you don't just disable it completely ...

[quote user="seanlu21"]I set up my "google apps" acct via POP, but it seems all my google apps Gmail emails went into 'new mail' folder .... there are 20,000+ ,[/quote]

Pegasus Mail can only deal properly with new mail (sort, e.g.) with up to 750 message in the new mail folder, but it shouldn't crash (only take extremely long to finish parsing new mail). If it crashes there's something else involved: Are you using the latest version (4.62)?

To avoid these crashes you should move all new mail messages (files with CNM extension) out of the respective directory, but I'm afraid figuring out which one crashes Pegasus Mail might be a painful task since you would have to move these files back until opening one of them crashes Pegasus Mail again ... We would be interested in the crashing one, of course, but only if you're already using 4.62, otherwise it might be enough to just install the update.

HUGE Thank you for the advice,

I thought my 4.41 version was the newest, It wasn't.

Checking one's version to make sure it is most current, is the best suggestion but never mentioned in the results of my original query searching for a an answer. So, I am hoping this message will appear in results for others who may experience similar issues.  Doing the upgrade to most recent version DID the trick, wow, blazing fast results when identifying unread messages on mail servers where mail is not immediately deleted upon download completion. 

answering winsock question,  on demand was checked so changed it to always per Caisson and help sections suggestion.  But when rebooted and reloaded pmail, it was still slow, then did upgrade to 4.62, that worked.   Ahhhhhhhhhhh (a joy to check emails once again with short wait times)

Thanks to Michael and Caisson for their assistance.  I continue to be a big fan of Pmail.   Cheers Everyone    [ip][D][Y][H]  

Hi rocket,

Request moved to Suggestion Thread.

Thanks & Regards,

Rad. 

[quote user="nick"]

Thanks for these hints. Pegasus is found at /userid/.wine/dosdevices/c:/pmail but I cannot find Pmail.usr in the Pmail\mail dir but it is in Pmail\mail\mail. What programme do I need to read the .usr file?

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You aren't running into a problem with case sensitive paths and file names are you?

By the way, "dosdevices/c:" is the same as "drive_c"

[quote user="Victoria-nola"]

Yes, I did add to the thread.  

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Thank you for that. [:)]

Cheers.

Here a try. My screenshot.

Cheers

Thomas-M.

Thanks, changed to reporting level 5 and confirmed the addressbook. The batch file still isn't working though, must be doing something wrong...

 Steve

Good. Time overlap as your message/post came in while I was preparing and post. The missing username it wanted was probably ADMIN.

Also see my response to your post under the topic "Problems on Windows 10 - using Pmail 4.70.

I'm not sure what you are doing, but as a start point make sure your messages are cached in order to view them offline. 

> i just setup a multi workstation running one program of pegasus mail in a server PC
>.
> i am the Admin,
>
> but , since I use 'google apps' gmail service, there are tens of thousands email in my gmail inbox, after I configured my
> 'internet email' POP, the pmail started download email BUT it started download from Year 2007.
>
>  does anyone know how to configure Pmail,  OR how to configure Gmail to let pmail download only this year ? or recently email ?
>
>  it drive me crazy, and i really want to use pmail in my office with my colleague.

You can use a POP3 filter to do this.  The Message Age filter allows you to leave on the server mail older than a specific number of days or a specific date.

Filtering on message age

To trigger a rule based on the age of the message, simply enter either a date, or a number of days. The rule will trigger if the message's Date: field specifies a date older than the date you enter. This type of rule can be useful for purging mail from folders once it reaches a particular age.

Filtering on the message date

To trigger a rule on the date of a message, enter either a pair of dates, or a range of numbers of days. It does not matter whether you enter the earliest or latest date first - Pegasus Mail sorts them into the correct sequence internally. The rule will be triggered if the Date: field of the message specifies a date that falls within the range you have specified. This type of rule can be useful for selecting messages received within a particular time period.

This makes sense is the focus is off of the original message window but I can't duplicate it.  Focus always returns to the original message window after sending a reply and the M button works.  I thought perhaps focus would change after doing a copy to self on the reply but even then the focus returns to the original message.  I run Pegasus (v4.62) windowed (stretched to full screen) in List mode but tested both windowed and maximized.

Duh! Thanks!

> I should have mentioned also that getting the top level addressbook menu to appear can be a trial.
>If you close all other windows and click on addressbooks it should work.
> (Between Tools and Window)

Works 100% of the time if the windows are not maximized no matter how many windows are open.