Some more info on DDE:

https://office-watch.com/2017/dde-finally-dead-took-microsoft-long/

Martin

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Hi All;

 Long time user here and never really had any issues until now

 I have been away from my PC for 2 weeks now (holiday) .  On my return this morning I noticed an email which appeared to come from my own email address.  the body indicated that my account had been hacked and as you would expect was looking for payment

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In respect to the email, it sounds like it was a blackmail scheme.

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That was indeed the problem. Thanks for your help.

Thanks Joerg.

I wondered if fixing the PMFOLDER.ID file would solve the problem so I added back the Flag and ID-Seed entries using the seed number from the folder name suffix.  All seems well since then.

Thank you, Brian. By continuing to play around forwarding e-mail with graphic

attachments, varying the forwarding choices, following directions!, etc., I found the root of

my problem!!  Though it seems "unintuitive" to me, it's incredibly simple!

If I forward any message w/graphic(s) using the first forwarding option - "Edit or make changes to the messages before forwarding them" and I DON'T make any changes to the forwarded message - i.e., if I just leave the extra space above the forwarded text empty - the message is always duplicated in the message queue.

HOWEVER, if I do as the option instructs and write anything at all in the space above the forwarded text, the message - even with graphics - is not duplicated, appearing only once in the message queue as expected!

If I choose the second option to simply "bounce" the message, the message is NOT duplicated in the queue, either. I did not experiment with the third and fourth forwarding options as I would likely never use those.

Tools > IMAP Profiles... Edit the profile. 

The option to always connect on startup is in the Settings tab.

Thanks for acknowledging the bike.  I just finished three days of riding in the mountains.  Wish I could ride the twisties for a living.

No, my robocopy routine creates a new directory with the date in the name.  I have to remember to periodically delete some old Pegasus backups because my backup NAS isn't overly large and I back up other things there.

Now I have to admit to being stupid.  When this occurred the first thing I did was shut down Peg and restart - no joy.  Next I tried reindexing the addressbook - no joy.  At that point I started bugging this forum.  Bzzzzt!  Wrong answer!

It occurred to me this evening that I hadn't tried restarting Windoze.  Duh.  Not only did that get me a shiny, new update for MS Office, but it fixed the address book problem.

Since restarting Pegasus didn't help, but restarting Windoze did, I'm blaming Win 10 for this annoyance.  At least it's recorded here in case someone else runs into this problem.

Thank you for your patience.

Maybe it would help to get a deeper understanding of : Since it's a probabilistic estimation it isn't necessary to train it with the exact same patterns again and again.

I don't do much with IMAP so am not sure I can help but it sounds like it might be helpful for you to be able to determine whether a folder is local.  To do this, right click on the folder name then select "Folder information".

If you find a local folder you will see a filename in the form of FOLXXXX.PMM.  If it is a folder that you are trying to remove you can remove the associated files files from the home mailbox directory.  They will be the referenced .PMM file and an associated PMI file.  With Pegasus Mail closed, use a file explorer to move them out of the mailbox directory.

Another thought is that the folder won't delete because it's not empty.  I don't know if this thought has any merit in the IMAP world; I just throwing it out there.

One other thing that might be worth a try is to rebuild the HIERARCH.PM file which is where the folder list is stored.  This will clear the folder list of any invalid entries but won't help if the folder physically exists.  WARNING: You will lose all folder structure if you do this but can undo the process if you have a copy to revert back to.  If you choose to pursue this, with Pegasus Mail closed, change the name of the HIERARCH.PM file to something like HIERARCH_PM.SAVED, start Pegasus Mail.  A new HIERARCH.PM file will be created automatically. 

To undo, replace the new HIERARCH.PM with the original renamed one (Pegasus Mail must be closed).

Problem solved! [:D] I searched around the forum, I found some suggestions about similar "Copy to Self" issues. Once again, Brian Fluet to my rescue. (Thank you, Brian!) My solution was simply to go to "Manage autofilter folders" where I found a strange incomplete entry which I deleted, and shazam! Now Pegasus is once again giving me the choice of copy-to-self folder before sending! I don't really understand what happened, but everything's working fine again, so I'm not going to fret about it!

I'm in the western part of North Carolina which came through Hurricane Florence pretty unscathed.  She was a tropical depression by the time she got here so only minor flooding and wind damage in this area.  Nothing that affected me.  The eastern part of the state is suffering with severe flooding though.  Thanks for asking!

As for screen resolution, it can be a major problem and the only options are lowering the resolution or using some sort of magnification.  My default resolution is 1920x1080 but but Pegasus Mail was just about unusable so I lowered it to 1600x900.  That has worked just fine other than Win10 routinely asking if I want it to fix my blurry apps (I haven't seen a blurry one yet).

Go to www.pmail.com and download the English v4.73.

The only thing unique about Pegasus Mail running on Win10 is that it will not work if installed inside of either of the \Program Files directories.  This is due to the built-in file protections of Win10 that prevent modification of files inside of the \Program Files directories.

If you wanted to direct all .ru messages to the spam folder you could create new mail expression filter (when folder is opened) that checks the From header for .ru and moves those messages to spam.

The expression would be some variation of

From:*.ru>

depending on what the From header looks like.

With Pegasus Mail closed, use a file explorer to navigate to your home mailbox directory then look for a file with a .PMO extension.  These are auto-saved, draft, or stationary messages.  Move it out of the directory for future deletion once the problem is solved. There may be a corresponding .PNX file if an RTF version was saved.  Remove it as well.  

In the event you have multiple .PMO files and know some are stationary that you wish to keep you can open them with a text editor.  The content should be enough to tell you what they are but if not, look at the SY: entry.  SY:1 indicates stationary.

I rebooted and now sorting is working as expected. (Why didn't I think of that on my own?) Thanks, Brian.

Awesome! that's exactly what I wanted. I knew it was just some simple little thing I wasn't finding.

Thanks!

(also, though I won't want to switch back, I noticed that the LIst button was gone and there is no Preview button - how would I go back? But then I found that clicking on Folders shows the Preview button, which goes away and is replaced by the List button if you change to Preview)

The only piece of this question that I think I can help with is the contacts part. 

Pegasus Mail can import a tab delimited or tagged text file into and addressbook so you should be able to export from Thunderbird and then import into Pegasus Mail.  The format may be an issue though.  I believe it's normal to have to manipulate the exported data to get it on the correct format. The way to determining that format is to view a test addressbook exported from Pegasus Mail. 

That was perfect.

I had already run a Search Filter so I had a "Recent search results" sub-folder with the relevant email messages. I then moved them to the InBox as suggested and I closed P-Mail.  I then moved *.CNM files out of c:\pmail\in  into another folder and renamed them all to TXT and then I subsequently copied them all as well to .EML files.

That was a bit sloppy but, it did all that I needed.

Domo arigato !

I see it now....THANKS!

You are dealing with what many of us are who have high resolution monitors.  The fixed fonts of Pegasus Mail display too small requiring lower resolution or some magnification.  Fonts are adjustable for the message editor pane and reader pane, each individually but he fonts used in the new message headers,configuration screens, and a number of other places can not be changed.