> Is there a config file that maintains the sizes of the various windows? Perhaps that has become corrupt somehow and the coordinates
> for the pane extent is outside those for the view window.

Exit WinPMail and go to your HOME mail directory.  Open the file state.pmj for editing.  Go to the [General] section and delete the following lines

FClassic=0,22,304,385,"0"
V4FP=0,0,829,544,"0"
V4FP-1=0,50,194,517
V4FP-2=197,50,821,154,"121,222,94,0,34"
V4FP-3=197,157,821,517

save and exit.  You'll get the defaults when you restart WinPMail.

Please try,

Tools > Internet Options > Receiving (POP3) > Edit (select an account).

On the General tab uncheck: Delete mail on server once it has been succesfully downloaded. 

I'm glad it sorted it for you, Ernest.

As far as backups go, I'm pretty sure you would follow the standard procedure I mentioned when we first discussed this. That is, just back up the entire Pmail folder, using a method of synchronize with synching of file deletions also. I keep 2 archived versions of changed or deleted files. Just in case. I have had on the (very) odd occasion to revert to a version more than 1 day before.

If others will chime in if they feel that there is a better way, that would be great, too.

Ellie

[quote user="Jonmcg"]I still have a copy of 441, so if your email can take 7M or you have an ftp site let me know.[/quote]

While I myself have absolutely no reason whatsoever to downgrade to 4.41, those who do shouldn't have too much difficulty finding a copy because it's right in the Downloads section of this very forum.

Cheers!
Steffan

This problem has been described in another thread:

http://community.pmail.com/forums/thread/31251.aspx

Can a solution be found? 

[quote user="honda90"]Ended.......the combined previous help along with eyeballs in my head to properly read error messages, I checked the disable certificates and I'm off and running.  Thanks to everyone!!!
[/quote]

Pls mark this thread as "solved".

Glad it's not just me then :)

It was probably a W2003 server hiccup... :)

It wasn't possible to delete the .pmm file from my workstation.

I deleted the file working on the local drive of the server.

Everything's ok now.

I had the same issue that start this thread (...locked by another process etc.). Initial attempts to delete MAILBOXP.LCK did not work. I discovered that the 'file owner' from from one of my other user accounts. Deleting the MAILBOXP.LCK file from an account with admin privileges solved the problem. Back in business.

Further, FYI another article suggested moving the CNM file. In my case this didn't work - probably due to the conflict indicated above.

LAST - thanks for the help.

[quote user="Sharkfin"][quote user="mitchell"]

Steffan, you are a Godsend!!  Found the files, but now how do I get them to go into the *.pmm folder?  Also, do you know what to do so that future notes will find their way automatically to the *.pmm folder as in the past?

[/quote]

Yes, he is good, isn't he?  :)

[/quote]

You're just jealous :-)

[quote user="Ellie Kennard"]Not sure what you mean about what you did.[/quote]

Right-click on the taskbar, go to the settings (preferences?) and play around with the settings for icons and grouping.

I ve no Vista running, maybe someone with an english Vista can give exact advise on how these items are called.

The problem appears to be solved. I'm reporting what I did in case it helps others!

A suggestion on another list was to completely clear out all references to the print spooler and installed printers from the Registry. This made use of an application named cleanspl.exe, which is one of the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools (the complete kit can be downloaded from Microsoft; the individual file is also available from other sites). This seems to have done the job. After running it, I reinstalled my Canon printer driver (which, surprisingly, also reactivated PDFCreator, my PDF driver, as well). This didn't seem to change anything immediately, but on starting up the computer this morning, the problem had disappeared

Let's hope it stays that way!

[quote user="Bel001"] I've obviously pressed some weird sequence of keys and changed some settings, but I can't find anything obvious - does anyone have any ideas?[/quote]

AFAIK it's <Alt>+<Shift> to change the keyboard-layout.

If you do not need any other layout than the UK-one, you should think about removing all others via region- and language-options in the system settings. If only one layout is set, the annoying taskbar-thing will disapear too.

Hi Steffan,

Thanks for your concern.

You are right that it has nothing to do with that thread except ... in a way it does. You see I started my server machine (on which Pegasus mail program and mailboxes reside) off the network so that Mercury would not start downloading the mails before I had recopied the new mailbox files as explained) over to the server from the USB key. I then started up Pegasus to see if it had worked correctly. I then got this error message. It appears that this computer has to be on the network for the installation to wok as the path is a network path.

As soon as I put this computer back on the network everything worked perfectly, including the cleaned up mailbox.

I did not touch the Pegasus mail program directory at all. The mailboxes reside on a different drive on the machine and the only files I copied from the key were in the mailbox.

Cheers!

Ellie

No, I'm almost certain you can't remove the local mailbox. Perhaps you mean the local New Mail folder? As far as I know, being a crucial part of the system -whether you use it or not - it can't be removed. However, if you're using other local folders anyway, does the existence of this one extra line annoy you that much?

> But if you do want to leave them on the server, outlook flags it so that it knows not to retrieve multiple copies. Pegasus doesnt,
> meaning that every time it polls the server, it downloads another copy of the same messages to the inbox. I had 50 copies of the same
> email in my box!!

Biut Pegasus Mail does know how to do this.  Have you set Pegasus Mail to leave the mail on the server and to only download unread mail?

Download only unread mail  The usual practice when retrieving mail from a POP3 host is to delete it from the host when it is successfully downloaded. If you do not delete it, you would normally expect to see it again the next time you download mail from the host. Pegasus Mail incorporates a powerful and complicated facility which allows you to leave mail on the POP3 host without deleting it, but only download mail you haven't already seen. Because the POP3 protocol does not actually provide this facility, there are some limitations on this command, the most specific being that if you run Pegasus Mail on more than one machine, each one willhave a separate list of what you have already seen; so, if you download mail using one machine then access your account later from a different machine, you will probably get the mail you downloaded the first time again, where downloading the mail on the same machine you originally used would only show mail which had arrived since the last time you accessed your account. Check this control to instruct Pegasus Mail to attempt to download only mail you have not read. The effect of this control is probably meaningless if you do not also uncheck the "Delete retrieved mail on host" control. Using this feature can significantly increase the time it takes for Pegasus Mail to retrieve your new mail.

When attaching an attachment drag and drop is no longer supported. Using the buttons and browsing a file will work.

[quote user="Eshtaol"]

I still cannot create the "add a mailbox" though and would like to... for any future dealings

[/quote]

What is it that you're unable to do?

Cheers!
Steffan

I just found it, the link is at the top of the thread, or rather it is in my view as the original poster.

Thanks again

[quote user="panworks"]Thanks for your response, Pegasus was selcted as default e mail in set up. and I selected it as system mailer in options>hyperlinks. As for the path specification i am not sure where to do that. The "no communication with pegasus" dialogue I get is labeled "wsendto" if that tells me anything. I appreciate the help.[/quote]

Please try installing MAPI support as described at its which you may go to via the SetPMDefault utility download page as you'll need the latter as well and it links to the MAPI page itself. It may not help, though, but giving it a try provides some more diagnostic hints (I'm currently setting up a Windows 7 system for myself, so I'll probably get more insights rather soon).