Hi Brian,

[quote]Strange stuff always happens when you clone a drive! I did just that the other day and the font size in Pegasus Mail shrank.[/quote]

On cloning a drive? Strange ... I assume, Windows changed its resolution!

[quote]How do I get it back to where it was? Or even better, how do I choose an optimal font size for my monitor and display? [/quote]

If Windows has changed the resolution, you have to change the size of fonts in Pegasus. You have a blue "f" in the iconlist. Click there and change the size of the fonts. To see the result correctly, close once the subwindow for "folderadministration" (sorry - directly translated from german) and reopen it.

bye   Olaf

If you copied files any configuration files from the old install they likely contain invalid paths unless the original install and the new install have identical paths.  The prompt for a user is common when Pegasus Mail is confused by an invalid path somewhere.  Adding to that is the concern over whether both installs are as single-user, multi-user, or one of each.

If your old install was not in a Program Files directory then post back because that move is pretty straightforward.  If it was, your best option (only reliable option IMHO) is to do a clean install to C:\PMAIL, configure it just enough to get a mailbox directory created, and then copy ONLY data files from the old install using the whitepaper as a guide. 

[quote user="PaulW"][quote user="Sheepdog"]

And then there's the fundamental question of How Bcc Works. I believe that the underlying mechanism is that you ALWAYS send the email to your mail server with the whole list of intended recipients attached. This saves you sending the message 5 times if you have 5 people Bcc'd. It is a concession to efficiency. If some mail-servers are not set up to do what I think everyone would expect, then I would call that a badly managed mail-server.

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I believe Pegasus Mail sends two mails if you have BCC recipient(s) - one with just the TO & CC addresses, and the other with BCC addresses.[/quote]

Correct, unless you have Suppress BCC field listings in outgoing mail checked. If so, all you have in the headers is BCC: (Suppressed).

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Thanks, idw. I'll just add here for completeness, that this option, whether set manually or by command line parameter, is a global setting; it applies to all your identities. 

Just to let you know, I have just now uploaded an amended copy of that how-to PDF, containing the advice (that I forgot to mention in the earlier version) that the old PConfig.exe is a 16-bit program, and it runs in 32-bit Windows, but not in 64-bit Windows.

Hi Paul,

can't you start it or does Pegasus not completely open?

In last case I assume you sent a big attachment and/or many recipients. Pegasus freezes, because it takes a while to generate the outgoing mails and send it to mail provider. Seems Pegasus didn't finish sending and on start tries to send again.

Have a look at your mailbox directory, find any file with extension PMX or PMW and perhaps a file PNX with same filename. Move them on closed Pegasus to another directory, then start Pegasus.

If this works, problem solved. I'm not shure if mail was realy sent by Pegasus - perhaps ask the receipient?!

bye    Olaf

I've found it. [:$]When the search results are being presented go to the main menu > folder > defaults & layouts > use it as new default - and that's it.   My ignorance.

Thank's for help and nice weekend

Joerg

Just a quick update... my suspicions were correct in that my inability to send mail was a direct result of issues at AOL / Verizon. At this point things appear to be OK with an occasional hiccup.

Thanks

Tom G, Sr. 

Han van den Bogaerde's site has excellent resources for Pegasus. There are a couple other abbreviated lists of Pegasus keyboard short cuts:

 http://short-keys.blogspot.com/2012/05/pegasus-mail-44-keyboard-shortcuts.html

And another abbreviated one here:

https://jr.co.il/training/pegasus-mail-keyboard-shortcuts.htm

I think Han's is the best.  http://www.vandenbogaerde.net/pegasusmail/pk_frame.html

As you suggested, I sent a message to beta-reports with a copy of the CNM file as an attachment.  I WAS able to copy the file to another location and could rename the copied file at will.  The same holds true for all other CNM files.  However, Pmail has the original of this spam message locked for some reason.  I may be wrong, but I am assuming that forcing Pmail to lock it is some kind of spammer's trick and I wonder if it is able to do anything else to my system.

Settings were set correctly and for last 2 days all seems well.(If you recall I did say weird as it has worked fine for some time) I am going to call this solved as there are other folks with much bigger problems.

Going to keep your help answer Brian should happen to flare up again. Thank you Brian AND Olaf I do appreciate

The folder structure is stored in a file named HIERARCH.PM which is located in your home mailbox directory.  Restoring a backup of that file will restore the folder structure to that point in time. 

If no backup, it must be rebuilt manually.

Barrylev, I had the same problem - a setup which was working properly just stopped. I received a message from gmail saying that I tried to use an insecure app. I was quite ill at the time so just reverted to using the gmail webmail app.

I found the latest version of Pmail and loaded it and followed all the steps to make the link with gmail, but still no dice. I then received another message from gmail saying that someone had tried to login to my email account using an insecure non-google app. It also advised that I could allow this connection by altering the security setting in my google account to allow connection to less secure apps. I'm not sure if this is google being incredibly fastidious re security, but I have a sneaking suspicion they might be trying to squeeze out third parties - they even mention MS Outlook as a possible insecure app.

 Anyway, I enabled the less secure access and all seemed to fly. Hope this is OK for you and that the lowered security doesn't cause problems.

 I too would be keen to learn if there's any other way around google's block.

"Pega", please check your Inbox on this site (at the top right) for my replies to the personal messages you sent me via this forum. I get the feeling that you didn't read them so far, please note that they are not sent as emails!

[quote user="Tom Barkas"]It only happens if I include the original text - is this what you'd expect from your theory. Michael?[/quote]

Yes, it is. IER update is still in preparation ...

I am surprised that no-one in this thread has mentioned that the main cause for this slow startup is the time taken to read all the messages in the NewMail directory (ie c:\pmail\mail\admin).

Every message gets to be read and a check is made to see if a line with X-PMFLAGS: exists in the headers of a message, if not a line that starts with: X-PMFLAGS: is inserted in the header lines of the message to record important information on the content of the message. In the NewMail files list, click on a message then click the menu button "Properties". Once that line has been inserted, the repeated analysis of the message is not required.

Secondly, there is a limit to prevent further scanning if there are more than approximately 500 messages in NewMail. Additionally, it should be noted that Filtering and Content Control (Spam detection) of the Newmail folder occurs every time Pegasus Mail starts, so it important to move messages to regular folders either manually or by setting up filters. 

Finally, AV scanning only occurs when a message is actually opened.  Attachments are only scanned once, if Virscan extension is active. You will see a message on the Pegasus Mail status line (bottom of screen) stating "scan skipped - already scanned" when message is opened.

 Martin

An update of IERenderer (the default HTML renderer) is being prepared which might handle the issues you encounter. Most of them are caused by the extremely chaotic IE (in)compatibilities created and maintained by the Windows creators: They didn't obey to lots of standards in the past resulting in later workarounds which make issues really difficult to track down without lots of trial and error.

Tom,

  Bearhtml is part of the distribution package for Pegasus Mail.  It remains inactive until Pegasus Mail detects that IERenderer is missing or inactive. its operation is controlled by a file Bearhtml.ini, which can be edited by users. You will note that Bearhtml.ini is very similar in content to IERenderer.ini, so duplication of functions is as close as possible.

The only real difference between Bearhtml and IERenderer is that Bearhtml uses its own visualizing engine, whereas IERenderer uses core components of Internet Explorer (not MicrosoftEdge).

HTH

Martin (author of Bearhtml) 

I have removed this update after receiving some concerns. I will advise you when things get better  :-(

Martin

[quote user="BMS"]Is there a solution, work-around or fix for this.

Also, any news on a long-awaited updated release?[/quote]

No news and some workarounds: The most reliable attempt of forwarding without anything getting lost at all is forwarding messages attached to a new message (allowing you to add your comments) as offered by the forwarding dialog. Aside from this, the actual formatting in outgoing messages is not properly shown in the reader when inserting you comments: To see how it will arrive at the recipient's side you need to queue your message, open the queue manager and create a copy of the outgoing message to some other folder (I usually use Deleted Messages if I don't want to keep a copy). If you open such a copy you will see how it actually looks when opened by your recipients.