Firstly, I hope you don't have to leave Pegasus, I'd encourage you to stay.

As for me, I have moved (after >20 years) from Pegasus. Perhaps temporarily, to Thunderbird.

(As yet, I don't find it as convenient)

I could not find a free utility to convert .PMM files to .MBX ones.

so I could export from Pegasus to Thunderbird  [  I'm on Windows Vista :-(  ]

I won't do it by hand inside Pegasus because I have too many folders to click on. (and I have backups too...)

So I wrote a command-line tool.  (which is easier for scripting and saves clicks)

And I thought I'd share it with Pegasus users.

Is there demand to go the other way, Thunderbird to Pegasus? EML to PMM ?

Firstly would anyone care to test it? It's only just out of alpha.

I can see where a few more features would be nice, but I don't have a variety of machines to test it on.

If it tests ok, how do I make it more widely available and let the relevant users know?

It should run under windows XP and up.  Linux is a "future feature". It looks possible though.

comments appreciated.

Is there demand to go the other way, Thunderbird to Pegasus? 

JayH

Adding the -ROAM switch to the command line "tells Pegasus Mail that it should ignore the configured drive letter when locating user mailboxes and mail files, and should instead use the drive letter of the drive from which WINPM-32.EXE was run" (quoted from the help file).  In other words, it allows a copy of a Pegasus Mail installation to be run as a portable installation.  The command line switch would look something like F:\PMAIL\Programs\winpm-32.exe -roam -a. 

All that said, if the USB device will stay connected with a fixed drive letter then the -ROAM switch is not necessary.

Hi

Thank you.

It works.

Martin 

Thank you, Sir.  I found a single ***.pmx file with 0 size.  I deleted that, and the phantom disappeared.

There were lots of ***.pnx files, but they all showed a size greater than 0.  They stayed.

Thanks Brian!

Yes, that did the trick ... ;-) was it mentioned anywhere ... Sorry if I overlooked it.

Cheers

Thomas 

[quote user="idw"]

Ok, Pegasus Mail appears to only accept formatted Rich Text (which IE creates automatically when coyping HTML to the clipboard). You can work around this by pasting the HTML into an OOo-Writer document, then copy the same stuff from OOo-Writer back to the clipboard which adds a Rich Text variant as well there that can be pasted into Pegasus Mail's TER editor leaving URLs intact.

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OK. Thank you. That's doable, but somewhat cumbersome. :-)

I just want to thank all for their efforts. I just uninstalled  the program. I have never In my life had so much problems using an after market mail program as this. I know there's a better way. I will keep searching for something else. again, thanks

Wecome to Pegasus Mail!  The "550 relay error" indicates that the sending SMTP server you are trying to use does not allow relaying as configured, possibly not at all.  The solution will be specific to that SMTP server so check the relaying capability and associated configuration and authentication requirements.

Dear colleagues,

I'm in t he (rather painful) process of moving my software from a W7 computer to a W8.1 computer. I know there is a way to move PM (I've done it when moving from XP to W7), but my memory fails me. I can't remember how I have done it. I have tried moving the whole of the MAIL folder to the new installation on the W8.1 computer, but this is not working. I need to move all my mail folders as I have many important messages (licence numbers, etc.) all saved there. Would a good sould remind me how to do this move?

 MTIA

Regards,

Janos 

You can run pmail from a usb drive.

You will find the information you require if you search the topic on this forum and the in the pmail help files.

Deleted several PMO and PMW files which were 1 kb or 0 kb.  Seems to have fixed the problem.

Thanks!

Hi,

I would like to know why Pegasus Mail hangs/stops every other operation temporarily while email is being downloaded.

This is especially noticeable while large attachments such as emails with >1MB PDF attachments are being downloaded.

I try to compose new mail, open mail folders, delete mail in other windows but have to wait till ALL email is downloaded BEFORE the PMail user interface releases control back to my mouse/keyboard and allows me to do other stuff.

I am wondering if there is any way around this because even Outlook Express can do email downloading while composing mail...  (or is it because the codebase is so old or legacy and nothing can be done to implement multi-tasking in pmail)

Thanks for any reply/help anyone can render :)

Rgds,

Joe.K

Hi, I've solved my problem. It was a password authentication problem. I was not using the same password to enable Pegasus and Mail Washer Pro (my anti-SPAM program) to Login to my SMTP Host.

[quote user="Theo Streicher"]Suddenly the mail that arrive will open only the headers but not the message.[/quote]

Can you please post a screenshot of what you see (this forum's editor allows you to do so via its Options tab at its top)?

I have noticed this behaviour too: select more messages, command to move or delete them, click anywhere else on a message ... HEY!! That other message was moved/deleted instead and the operation stopped! [:S]

This was not a problem in previous versions. Seems to me such operations were strictly sequential and Pegasus did not respond before it was completed. It might take ages to retrieve a big message over a slow line, but at least it did what it should. Maybe now this comes as a result of paralelizing; perhaps the operation does not get a list of messages at its launch time but instead every time one message is processed it asks "give me more"? Doesn't matter, this is way too much annoying, and it happens even on a gigabit line next to the server when you are too fast!

My advice is to move back to <4.7 and wait until this gets resolved despite any good new features 4.7 has (e.g. that significant speedup). I'm using Pegasus since maybe 1994 and I like it, yet I cannot use this new version.

The date format is in DD Month YY format so what you are seeing is just the Month YY portion.  Stretch the date column wider to see the DD portion.

Might it be better for a thumb drive Windows XP user of Pegasus Mail V4.41 to wait for version 5 of the program ? Will it then be possible to just install the software to an external, portable drive (that can be used on both Windows XP AND Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit) and drag and drop in folders containing many years' worth of organised messages ?

Hi Jerry,

Thanks for responding to my post.

Understood. I can live with it.

Thanks again to all who helped out!

Cheers,

Mike T.

Well, okay, I guess I did get the picture in.  The preview didn't show it.

If the window is opening minimized then the restore up button should work but if it doesn't try maximizing the window then resizing it down to the size you want.  This size should then stick.  The main Pegasus Mail window may need to be windowed and not maximized in order to do this. 

If the window is shrunk to a minimized size (no 'restore up' button), then you should be able to grab the top right corner and stretch it back to size.