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.

Go to the to see my replies.

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 

Many thanks Thomas R!

Thanks for your good hints. I had another go at it last night and luckily it turned out to be less dramatic than I expected and ultimately it was partly related to a user error and easy to fix.

I initially thought that the unusual settings I detected were related to the use of the wrong (older) identity. PM is started through a command line option loading the correct identity. I assumed that the PM start icon could have been recreated manually or replaced by the default one through a Windows System Restore which I believe had been done in the past. However, all command lines were still correct. So who knows who changed the settings ;-)

The messages in the inbox were actually not deleted but I found that the sorting order for the inbox was accidentally set to "Sort unread before read" ... which should normally be detected easily. However, the inbox contained close to 700 messages ... waiting to be sorted into folders ... and who checks the end of that list ;-)

I also had searched for specific test emails which I also assumed to have ended up somewhere in that substantial folder tree - as you suggested. However, as all the emails were still in the inbox, nothing was found ;-)

The NOD32 AV might have deleted the "Deleted messages" folder and hopefully no other folders. I have defined some exceptions rules for CNM and PMM files.

Many thanks again.

Thomas-M.

Sorry - I had got myself in a mess and had forgotten to reinstate the two folders that I was having issues with (I had temporarily moved them to another directory). [:$]

All is fine now - it worked. Many thanks for your help. [Y]

[quote user="David_himself"]

Thanks again.  Sorry if I'm being dumb, but I'm still unclear about the use of application names in mime-map.pm from the point of view of outgoing files, since those names don't seem to appear in the files that are sent, as far as I can see.[/quote]

They are not 'application names', but internal Pegasus Mail attachment types.  From mime-map.pm:

; Each line in the file defines a bi-directional mapping between a MIME
; content type on the left and a Pegasus Mail attachment type on the
; right.
;
; When you add an attachment to a message, WinPMail will look through
; this file looking for an attachment type match; when it finds one, it
; will write the attachment using that MIME content type.

[quote]And shouldn't those two default .pm files be brought up to date in the next release?[/quote]

Perhaps they will.

Actually, if you want to, you can close the thread by changing its status to "Resolved".

Cheers!
Steffan

[quote user="Steffan"]Yes, go to Addresses | User management, click the name you wish to change, click the Change button, change Username and Personal name and click OK. You don't have to change the Personal name, but if you do, the corresponding user directory will be easier to find.
[/quote]

 I forgot I had to go to the administrator, not the user to be changed.

Works like a charm....THANKS!!!!!!