Thomas Stephenson suggested that I reinstall Pegasus Mail over my current version as an update. This fixed the problem and I was able to retrieve all of my old messages.

 Thanks Thomas!

Several years old but...

Like many fastmail users, I changed to insecuressl.messagingengine.com for POP3/IMAP/SMTP to overcome SSL issues. Pegasus 4.70 now works with mail.messagingengine.com & SSL.

Well done to the Pegasus team.

I don't see anything "garbled". I see what I expect - the raw message data including headers.

To transfer messages you are best off using the "add mailbox" option to temporarily connect to a folder and then drag your messages there. Searching these forums will give you fuller instructions on using this method.

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And using CTRL+Delete (CTRL+Y if using confirmations) is quicker since it bypasses saving the deleted messages.  ;-)

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I'm a little wary of such drastic measures :-) I prefer to use the Deleted messages folder (which I've set to persist between sessions) as a safety net. Attached to this folder, though, is a folder-close mail filtering rule that deletes all messages that are older than one day. Pmail's mail filtering rules rule!

Cheers!
Steffan

Thanks to all.

 1. For Steffen, I agree is not a good politic to change both windows and pegasus. I have to say that searching for a solution I downgraded to 4.41 from 4.51. That is, I installed 4.41 over the normal directory and .....now it seems to work !!!. The only problem is the icons affair which still do not work (text, text and figures, etc that I have heard in this forum) but that is minor and I can work. Therefore, windows 7 and pegasus 4.41 work nicely in my hands.

 2. As for the other solution, thanks. I will try reinstalling 4.51 again and creating session logs and will paste here for experience administrators. Thanks a lot.

Very astute diagnosis, Dilbert. Kudos.

I do it slightly differently.

I have used PM for over 10 years now and keep a lot of folders. I have 3 PCs now: 1 at work, 1 at home and 1 for the road. I also have a USB key and have isntalled on all three PCs the software SyncBackSE. Every time I go from place to the other, I sync the mail folder exclusively and exclude the *.ini files from any comparison.

In this way, I ahve all new mails, all folders, all addressbooks etc on the USB key and I just plug into the PC I am going to use and sync again taking care to delete the "new" mail in the receiving PC since these have been dealt with before. 

It works perfectly, never a loss of data and no need to worry about disk crashes any longer. 

Btw , I use WinXP x32 and x64 on my machines.

I know to run pconfig from the past to change the directories, but I cannot seem to do this in Windows 7 64 bit!?

The 64 bit version of Windows does not support 16 bit software.  You might get a copy of DOSBox and run this on the system.  DOSBox will allow you to run, mount and install the c: drive in a DOS emulator and thus allow you to run pconfig.exe.

Was there a lower limit in v. 4.31? I have just updated to 4.62. With 4.31, when the Deleted Messages folder exceeded about 500 messages, strange things seemed to happen. For example, my wife, on her PC, recently lost her Deleted Messages folder.

...chris

Thanks for that TRS, I just installed a free pdf printer and when I made it my default it sorted it. I now remember something like this years ago, same old problem I guess. Thanks for all the help guys.

p.s. I read your other thread huntingtower - probably a better solution but I was born lazy and the pdf printer trick will do for me. Cheers.

Worked a treat - upgrade and the addition of system folders.

I am good to go - literally! - thanks, Steffan.

Ellie

Thanks, Aderoy.  I could not open Pegasus as you suggested but comments from you and Thomas helped me locate the new mail messages and identify the culprit that caused the problem.  My Pegasus is up and running again!  Thanks you both very much!!

Thank you! That did the trick ;)

Ict

yes, I am the user and have full rights to temp

Thanks.

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Wow..

 Steffan, thank you so much and I am embarrassed.  I have been sitting here frustrated and crabbing and all I had to do was ask..

 Cheers and regards...

The Mime headers are faulty. You are coding Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit  when you are including an 8-bit character xA3. To be correct you should also be coding charset="CP1252" as that charset has a representation for the pound sign. Or use the html sequence &#A3  See the table:

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/sbcs/1252.mspx 

Martin 

> What might have happened here and how would I get it back to normal? Just a reminder that the second user on the laptop, accessing the same
> Pmail program, just different mailbox, is having no such trouble.

I suspect that the state.pmj has been corrupted and the windows are being hidden.  Since you are using the preview mode I would recommend that you edit the state.pmj with an ASCII editor and remove all of the V4FP entries in the [General] section and all of the entries in the [Reader] section. This MUST be done when Pegasus Mail is closed or you will be wasting your time.

Hi,

I migrated to Windows 7 and als to Pegasus mail.

How do I import my old, Windows Mail, mail in Pegasus.

Haeije

haeije@quicknet.nl