New version, new structure.  That's why I always recommend an upgrade rather than a new install and copying the mail directories.

On my old computer I used PMAIL 4.3.1 with German Layout. So I got a new machine, so I installed PMAIL 4.4.1.

 To get my old folders back I just copied the MAIL folder from the old machine to the new, this had worked ever, but if I now start PMAIL I just get "User unknown" !

What have I done wrong?

Do I have to make some configs or what is it about?

Yours sincerely Derrick23
 

Hard to say specifically but I suspect the mailbox location is wrong.  Go to the programs directory  and run the program pconfig.exe.  Set the HOME and NEW mail directory path to match the current location of your mail.

I did so, PMAIL is now starting, but non of the old Mail Boxes is to be viewed.

I will do some testing ...

Use Help | About Pegasus Mail | Info and check out the mailbox directory path.  If you are not seeing any of the old folders then the path is probably wrong.

The basic structure of a single-user standalone installation should look something like this:

c:\pmail\programs                            the  program directory

c:\pmail\mail                                   the mail directory with the pmail.usr file

c:\pmail\mail\admin                         the user mail directory

The pconfig.exe should show a mailbox location c:\pmail\mail\~n

When WinPMail starts it reads the pmail.cfg file to find the mailbox directory path.  It reads the pmail.usr file and if there is only one user starts as that user.  If there is more than one it asks for the username.  It takes the username and replaces the ~n with the username and then reads the pmail.ini in that directory.

When you get a user not found error message either the path to the mailboxes is wrong or there is not user that matches that username in the pmail.usr file.

Thanks, now it works.

But why was the old Mail folder in

C:\pmail\mail

and on the other side on my old machine I didn't even had a folder called 'programs'

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