I would appreciate any help or suggestions the Pmail community might offer. I am using Windows version 4.91. Just this evening, whenever I tried to go into the "copies to self" folder, it wouldn't load, just kept trying. I reindexed the folder. That didn't help. When I checked for consistency, it said there was an issue with the copies to self pmm (or pmi, can't remember now). So I deleted in both the pmi and the pmm the emails I had written that day, which were replies, thinking that they must be the culprit. Now I have three "copies to self" file. One has virtually nothing in it, just a test email I wrote to myself. The other two seem identical and have become massive, over 64000 messages (before it was around 50,000). When ever I try to get into either of those two massive folder, I can't. It just keeps trying to read them. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Scott

I have never heard of anyone trying to delete mail data or its related index information from within .pmm and .pmi. I don't know if that can successfully be done.

As for the copyself issue, the 50,000 number makes me wonder if the .pmm file of the copyself folder reached the 2GB file size limit. This is the limit for a 32 bit process like Pegasus Mail.

Here is what I suggest first. In the Pegasus Mail folder list, right-click on each of the "copies to self" folders then select "Recover deleted space". This may not do anything. Right-click again on each and select "Folder information". Make note of the filename for each then use a file explorer to look in the mailbox directory and see if any are at or near 2GB in size.

Forum members: Martin had produced the utility NOTSPLIT that was handy for breaking down a 2GB folder that couldn't be opened within Pegasus Mail. Since his programs are not longer available, do you know of any other methods of dealing with a 2GB .pmm outside of Pegasus Mail?