Well, duh. Was not looking in the right place, I finally found it, did what you suggested and got rid of the offending email. I also emailed the person who forwarded it and many others to me and told her to stop.<g> thanks for your help.</g>

Checking headers I can see his webmailer mPOP Web-Mail 2.19 using the same encoding for both from and reply-to fields. So how come Pegasus displays it corretly when I open the mail but no in the inbox?

Not to spark another discussion on why I am using UNIX type folders ;-) ... they worked well for me and for what I needed them for the last 8+ years with some minor disadvantages.

However, I suspect that a lot of the performance related issues (long startup and shutdown times, see also other postings http://community.pmail.com/forums/thread/11606.aspx) may be related to that UNIX type folder format. Are there any other experiences on larger setups with many folders on how long it takes to start up and shut down just to get a comparison?

Folders: 1000 + folders (nearly all folder UNIX mailbox folder type)
PC type: Dell Notebook P4mobile 1.7GHz, RAM 750MB, HD 120GB
Startup time: ~30 sec.
Shutdown time: ~30 sec

Thanks

Thomas

My 1000+ folders are nearly all of the UNIX Mailbox Format. Is there an easy way to convert them to PM type folders?
The only way I could think of is by manually (re)creating each folder with the same name and then move the messages into the new ones, then delete the old ones. I did a test and estimated that this may take approximately 8-12 hours(!) to do ... so any more efficient way would be welcome :-)

Thanks

Thomas
 

How do you get the error messages to stay on the screen long enough to read them ?

[quote user="irelam"]

I think what you are looking for is described in help for inbox rules.

The ones you want are : 

Add User to List (rule action)

Remove User from list (rule action)

List Scan  (rule type)

HTH

     Martin

[/quote]

Many thanks, that's what I was looking for.

My telnet to GoDaddy's machine produced identical results as yours

 Telnet to Charter's machine gave me this...

-----------start-here---------------------------------


220 charter.net ESMTP server ready Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:07:48 -0500
EHLO JOHN
250-charter.net
250-HELP
250-VRFY
250-XREMOTEQUEUE
250-ETRN
250-PIPELINING
250-DSN
250-8BITMIME
250 SIZE 15728640
QUIT
221 charter.net ESMTP server closing connection


Connection to host lost.

C:\SOMEDIR1\ETC>


-----------stop-here----------------------------------

Aderoy!

Thanks for ideas.... still have the problems so all suggestion are highly appreciated.

 Signature: I have now changed that and have a simple signature generated by Pegasus Mail and have chosen the option "internet adress - plain content". I Guess that is the best option - agree or should I handle it in any other way ? 

  Rich (formatted) Text is OFF in the Tools/Options/Outgoing messages section - should I change that, or !?

 Jon

Have you tried restarting you machine?  Before you tried Pegasus Mail, what did you use - are you sure it's not still trying to download you mail?

If you still have a 'mailbox in use' error, I would get in touch with whoever hosts you mailbox and find out if they have a problem. 

Tigershark,

Yes tried that but since it is not all emails with attachments then it is hard to "recreate" but I will for sure try it the next time I get comments back that the recipient can not read the attachments....

Jon 

I have been a Pegasus user for many years now. The biggest shortcoming of the program for me is the inability of the program to handle bidi (bidirectional) issues (i.e., in an environment where there is mixed use of LTR (left-to-right) languages such as English together with RTL (right-to-left) languages such as Hebrew or Arabic).

The unicode incompatibility of Pegasus has been a subject of various

threads in the Pegasus usenet newsgroups for years. For this reason I

now also have a gmail account, which I use for such bilingual messages. 

For that reason I am still using Pegasus version 4.02, which as far as I know is the last version to properly display LTR (left-to-right) languages such as English on a computer which uses a RTL (right-to-left) version of Windows. Every other modern email client that I am aware of does not have this problem. I haven't switched away from Pegasus completely, however, because of the time it would take me to convert all my archived messages from Pegasus format to something the other programs can read.

I don't remember if I tested the most recent release of Pegasus (4.41) on this issue.

Good luck.

Its still the same in the 4.5 public beta.   Increasing the number of characters displayed for the phone number would certaily make the address book more usable as an address book perse as there would be no need to select the individual entry to see the whole number perhaps you should post this in the wishlists section.

not really, this server have two cpu and 2Gb memory, the cpu load average is arround 30% and the memory used is 900Mb

Hello!

Well, yes, this might be an option. I tried some, but I haven't gotten around to do a full scale test yet.

However, my main concern right now is how do I get my mail sorted  without restarting Pmail every 3000 or so mail, waiting 30 minutes until it counts to 200-odd thousand, filters 5 minutes and then do it all over again...  

More so, I don't know if I did something wrong, my network is screwing up, a setting is not optimal, or Pmail creates the problem.

So any help is appreciated.

Thank you!
 

i'm using NDS....

Is there a debug-mode on Pegasus-mail ? Or could I contact David

about this problem ?

[quote user="irelam"]A suggestion/possibility from a help group:[/quote]

Martin, this would affect all applications, not only Pegasus Mail, hence it cannot be the issue here ...

[quote user="chriscw"]

I think the normal procedure is to close Pegasus, delete Hierach.pm and I think folstate.pm (or beeter still move it elsewhere) then either restore your last backed up copy or restart Pegasus which will scan your folders and build a new file all your message folders will appear in the root of your mailbox and you will need to re create any filing trays and move folders into them.

[/quote]

That's where I am already (a flat structure), so I just took this as an opportunity to clean house, and create a new folder structure. Fortunately, Pegasus appears to based rules that move messages on the final destination folder instead of storing the path to get to it. Even with the new folder structure (and indeed, when they were all flat at root), my mail sorting rules still work properly.

Thanks to everyone for the help!

old laptop fatal crash     bought new one with vista

old mail settings, user file, and emails were on different hard drive.  copied this to new computer

downloaded new pegasus   installed on new laptop, it automatically picked up all the old settings, and I could read my old mail, download new and send.

Pegasus crashed (best word for it).

I uninstalled and reinstalled. Now I can't get any of my old messages, and my configuration is not there, as it was the first time.

I even recopied my old info back to new system again.

How can I get pegasus to pick up my old stuff again.

Post here and please at my yahoo address.       not my real name just a extra place to get email

[quote user="irelam"]

Go to menu Help/About Pegasus Mail,  and click Info button

 Martin

[/quote]

[quote user="BillnLilburn"]

My Pegasus program has crashed and I can't get it started again.

[/quote]

[:P]

The PMAIL folder (C:\Pmail or wherever you installed it) contains everything, mail included.

If you can't find it there, a search for "PMAIL" should point you in the right direction.

The actual mail files (*.cnm) & folders (*.PMM, *.PMI) are usually in the "mail" or "ADMIN" folder inside C:\PMAIL (depending on installation type / version) but if you back up the PMAIL folder you should have everything (including addressbooks).

It is possible to store the mail elsewhere, but this has to be specifically set up, and you should remember doing that.

You could run pconfig.exe (in the PMAIL folder) and it will show you the current path, but then again, if your installation is borked, it may lie to you.

There's a big difference between what the original poster wanted - simultaneous multi-user access, which POP3 usually won't handle (but IMAP will), and what Peter describes - multi-user independent access, that is quite possible with POP3.