Method for Archiving Mail from Pegasus using Maistore Home:

Create mbx unix folder and container.

Search for mails meeting your criteria (for example from and to dates to select old mails).

Or select mails by date within any folder

Copy mails to the mbx container.

Look in your Pegasus profile folder for that user and Mail. In that folder will see an mbx file with the relevant time and date, (it won't be named as you called it , but there will be an associated pmg file with the same name, the first line of which has your chosen folder name from Pegasus.)

Use Mailstore Home (http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstore-home-email-archiving.aspx) to archive the mbx file directly, there is no need for any other process. It works a dream and is very fast to search for any given string, (less than 2 seconds on 50.000 mails).

If running Mailstore Home in a network environment you will need to use symbolic links to point at the real location from inside a local folder.

When finished you can delete the same mails from Pegasus and the folders you created.

Done

I wondered if anyone has tried using the program MailStore Home (http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstore-home.aspx)

for archiving Pegasus mail?

I have installed it and tried it with "Archive EML files" and entered the PM file extensions that are used in the Mail/Admin folder.

It partially works but only a proportion of individual mails are archived; those can be retrieved with a search.

So, if anyone has  tried it and got it to work properly, I'd be pleased to hear how to do that.

Terry

Another question I've answered myself [:O]

The way to do it is slightly convoluted.

1. Export e-mails to disc, folder by folder to, preferably, a simplified folder structure.

2. Add the *.txt extension to the files, I use ReName Master.

3. Use the MailStore "Archive EML files" feature with a custom extension of "txt"

Do this folder by folder to the same archive.Unfortunately MailStore Home only allows 3 saved profiles so any more folders than that requires profiles to be deleted and new ones to be created, not difficult though.

The original exported files can then be deleted and the folders re-used for the next archiving session.

I need to assess whether this is any more efficient that using an archive mail box that can be detached. Moving mails to the archive folders is tedious.

Hopefully this may be of interest to someone.

Terry.

Mailbag Assistant ( http://www.fookes.com/mailbag/overview.php ) archives Pegasus emails directly, and in fact works very well with Pegasus emails generally, but it's not free.  There's a free trial, though.

Good luck.

C.

Thanks, I'll have a look.

Terry.