[quote user="tin-can"]

My mail client is Yahoo. 

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I'm confused about why you're posting on a Pegasus forum if you don't use Pegasus...

Thanks for the response.  Yes, I refer to text in dialog boxes and lists like the one showing mail waiting on the server or the left pane of the address book.  See a neighboring thread titled "low vision use?"  where I've posted more detail (in hopes of helping both myself and that OP).  As outlined there, I found the Win7 "advanced" settings.  None of them seems to affect the problem screen areas.  I listed some possible workarounds in the other thread.  Will add

greater enlightenment there if I discover any.  :-)

Seems to me there's a sad irony here.  Many of us old fogies who've relied on and loved Pegasus for many years, finally graduate up to new equipment with much higher display resolutions, only to find that our favorite mail client becomes less rather than more convenient.  (And yes, I do understand that David puts yeoman effort into a free application.)

Thanks again for the response.  -Ron

Trust me, I've changed all possible Windows settings to larger fonts.

This client uses a much more comprehensive magnifying program than Windows' magnifier - but it doesn't help to have some text tiny and some big enough to read...

[quote user="fojtik"]Pegasus Mail 4.52 crashes when zero size .CNM file appear - please fix.[/quote]

> I often need to type the letters E H R, with no spaces, which Pegasus always helpfully changes to HER.  Aargh!

Turn off the automatic formatting or change the string ehr in the Tools | Options | Automatic formatting to return EHR instead of her and it will go away.

> I have several mail accounts, and I have addedd them to the default user. The system collects all mail, and everything seems to be
> working, But, If i  for example have   jobe77@xxx.xx as default user, and the mail I'm going to reply to, is sent to webmaster@xxx.xx, I
> want the pegasus to use the original reciver as the sender, and NOT the default user.
>
> So if i reply on a message that someone sent to webmaster@xxx.xx, I want it to be replied by webmaster@xxx.xx, and not jobe77@xxx.xx
>
> Is this at all supported?

You need to use "Identities" to do this.

1.     Go to Tools | Identities and setup an identity for each e-mail address you will be using to send/receive mail.

2,    Become that identity and modify the Tools | Options and Tools | Internet options to match that identity.

3.    Create a folder for each identity and use new mail filtering (or autofiltering) to put the mail into this folder based on the e-mail address or some other unique identifier.  (Many mail message do not contain the e-mail address of the local user.)

4.    Attach the appropriate identity to each folder.

Now when the mail is downloaded it is moved from the new mail folder to the identities folder via filtering.  All replies and forwards from the folder will use the attached identity.

I have this message,

[quote user="Thomas R. Stephenson"]> Now the IMAP4 protocol has many problems of it's own so in this case I'm not too sure anyone, even the original UW developers, ever get this right.

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Sorry Thomas, did not quote the sentence that I was referring to.

IMAP4 is a busy protocol is true, having problems is what I would challenge or disagree with. Looking at the Exchange 2000 thru 2010 protocol makes IMAP seem very simple and robust. Having to admin Exchange 2k-210 for anywhere from 300 to 45k endusers I am glad to be away from it.

As with pop3/smtp you very well know and see how different clients play fast and loose with RFC's.

Mark Crispin is one of the original developers of the protocol and major sections of Pine which was used to develop other clients.

Sorry this is getting OT.

I like and use Pegasus, it has some quarks, but it gets the job done. Pegasus follows e-mail standards, sometimes having to bend them in order to communicate with broken servers/clients. It is a very tough job for David H and the beta group which I do appreciate, not member of the 1000 but do make donations when possible (next scheduled for march).

The error is back from our original user.  So moving the PNX files was not a proper / complete fix.

 It worked nicely for almost exactly a week.  Anything to try next?

> It's XP. Pegasus is installed in the C drive in a "PMAIL" folder, that's the way it's installed on all my systems and it has worked fine
> in the past.
>
> I am a little older so I may have messed something up. I repeated the process and it still messed up.

We are all a "little" older.  Hey when we passed 70 all things are a bit more difficult.  ;-)

> The results are, all the settings are gone and the  pop3 and smtp settings are reset.

PMail.ini file did not get transferred or is marked read-only. 

> I can select add and the definitions are there.

Ok, it you are not using identities then you can use the new pmail.ini file that has been created.

> Also, my spam folder is corrupted, can't be reindexed and I can't delete it.

Sure sounds like a read-only file in either the data or index file.  Pegasus Mail can't use read-only files.

> The settings aren't really a problem since they can easily be fixed. 

If you have Pegasus running OK but miss you old emails and if you know where you have your old email folders stored it 
is pretty easy:
-  Choose "Folders"
- Choose "Add mailbox to list"
- Write the path to the filder where you have your emails for example D:\PMAIL\MAIL\ or whatever it is
- Add a name if you want

and that should do it.....

I allways back up my whole mail folder directory to an external harddrive since then it is pretty easy to quickly be up and
running after a crash.

/Jon 

Thanks for the tip. When I highlight the attachment and click Open, the viewer is invoked.

It seems to have something to do with the size of the attachment. I tried a pps file of size about 1 MB, and I can double click to open it. For a 5MB file, I have to highlight and click Open on the toolbar.

PaulF 

I created a GMail account and followed your instructions and it seems to be working - thanks. The wireless network is not my own network - it is various wireless networks that I connect to when I am traveling (hotels, coffee shops, etc).

I now intend using IMAP to sync my local PMail with my GMail account... I have a whole host of queries about that, but I'll send those in a new thread.

Thanks,

Ros.

Many thanks.

I see that I looked at three university sites for help before trying the forum, and all must have been running Mercury.

I also missed the first word of the Pegasus help topic, which makes a big difference :  

If Pegasus Mail's companion Server product, Mercury, is installed on your system, you can create replies that will be sent out automatically any time you receive a message.

I think that I will leave it for the moment.

Many thanks for the help Thomas (who has always replied to my questions over the years.)

Firstly, you need to understand that only Pegasus can read mail that has been encrypted using the built-in tool. Other methods need you to install a plug-in and exchange keys with correspondents.

[quote user="Steve1966"]I am interested in learning more about Pegasus so can anyone explain where I went wrong with the upgrade and why it appears that the fresh install of v4.51 is different to the one I installed last year.[/quote]

Two issues to consider:

• Win

  7 (64) Disappearing mail & configuration

I've recently had problems with my XP and needed to restore the image of my C: drive several times on different days (I use Acronis). Each time I copied and saved PMAIL from the then current C: drive to an external drive for safekeeping before doing the restore. Is there a way to effectively merge the contents of the saved mail folders of the same name, but different dates, into the one folder I am currently using? (of the same name) There was activity in only a few folders such New Mail, Copies to Self and two others.

eug4not

[quote user="EDWARD"]Greetings .. I have been using pmail since 1990 ! Have a massive record of all emails ever written and recieved ! Recent upgrade to v4.52 has resulted in Microsoft Error report being recieved continuously every time the pmail programme attempts to 'applying filtering rules'. This has been going on for 2 days.. I have backed up everything.. ? Do I use old pmail system.prg or is there a quick fix? .. ED using XP prof[/quote]

What about disabling filter rules to find out which one is causing trouble?

[quote user="ddmartin"]

I have few email where is 100% crash when I make replay to this email.

Could you please forward such an email to my idw.doc [at] t-online.de for testing? This should be a zipped new mail taken from your machine's new mail directory: Its name can be found via Pegasus Mail's Help => About Pegasus Mail... => Info screen (New mailbox location). The name of the associated file can be found after right clicking the message in Pegasus Mail's new mail folder and selecting Message properties at the top of the dialog.

Thanks to both of you, and apologies for the late reply - I was on vacation and away from the machine that has Pegasus installed. Anyway, what I ended up doing was the following - getting the file name for the folder in question and restoring it from my back-up. The tricky part was finding that file - the info re: home mail box location shown in Pegasus simply points to the wrong place, and I suspect this has something to do with the user account control situation in Vista. I eventually found that the current real location of my mail box to be not at C:\Program Files\Pegasus\MAIL\Admin as given by Pegasus, but at C:\Users\MYUSERNAME\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Pegasus\Mail\Admin, where MYUSERNAME is my user name on this machine.

The folder file (FOLsomething.pmm) in the location given by Pegasus has only the old messags, the same name file in that other location, once restored from my back-up, has also the newer messages. I still don't understand how PM operates with these two locations simultaneously, but the fact that I cannot delete or move certain very old (pre 2007) messages from my New Mail Folder certainly has to do with it. I should clean this up some time... 

 Thanks again, and perhaps someone else with a similar problem can benefit from this or contribute more elucidating thoughts...

 Best,

Ulrike