Community Discussions and Support
working with pmail, a desktop and a laptop

I do it slightly differently.

I have used PM for over 10 years now and keep a lot of folders. I have 3 PCs now: 1 at work, 1 at home and 1 for the road. I also have a USB key and have isntalled on all three PCs the software SyncBackSE. Every time I go from place to the other, I sync the mail folder exclusively and exclude the *.ini files from any comparison.

In this way, I ahve all new mails, all folders, all addressbooks etc on the USB key and I just plug into the PC I am going to use and sync again taking care to delete the "new" mail in the receiving PC since these have been dealt with before. 

It works perfectly, never a loss of data and no need to worry about disk crashes any longer. 

Btw , I use WinXP x32 and x64 on my machines.

<p>I do it slightly differently.</p><p>I have used PM for over 10 years now and keep a lot of folders. I have 3 PCs now: 1 at work, 1 at home and 1 for the road. I also have a USB key and have isntalled on all three PCs the software SyncBackSE. Every time I go from place to the other, I sync the mail folder exclusively and exclude the *.ini files from any comparison.</p><p>In this way, I ahve all new mails, all folders, all addressbooks etc on the USB key and I just plug into the PC I am going to use and sync again taking care to delete the "new" mail in the receiving PC since these have been dealt with before. </p><p>It works perfectly, never a loss of data and no need to worry about disk crashes any longer. </p><p>Btw , I use WinXP x32 and x64 on my machines. </p>

I'm a long-time user of Pegasus, and recently upgraded to v4.51.  So far, so good.  I also recently replaced my aging laptop (a beloved old dog of a machine running windows 2000), and am now forced [:(] to use windows 7.

My long time strategy is to keep mirrored copies of my mail archive on the desktop (windows xp) and laptop machines. With the new release of windows, my user directory c:\me is now c:\users\me.  This means if I try to synchronise between the two machines, pmail.ini gets overwritten from one machine to the other resulting in a small mess.  I can manually fix pmail.ini each time I synchronise, but I'd really rather not.  My question is this:

Is there a more sophisticated way of keeping the mail archive in sync between the two machines, other than the brute-force method of overwriting the older archive with the newer whenever I switch from one machine to the other?

This old strategy has served me well, but the archive is getting a little big now, and copying the whole thing back and forth is no longer a quick operation.

 

____________________________________________________________

On a slightly related note, running windows 7 64-bit means pconfig.exe does not work.  Reading other posts, it seems the strategy is to delete pmail.cfg out of the programs directory of Pegasus.  Since I (arguably stupidly) installed Pegasus in the Program Files (x86) directory for consistency's sake with other applications, this file was somewhat mysteriously not there.  Searching around for it, due to windows 7's virtualisation issues, it creates a mirrored copy located at:

c:\users\me\appdata\local\virtualstore\program files(x86)\pmail\programs

I initially botched the setup, so Pegasus wouldn't start, hence the attempt at using pconfig.  Delete pmail.cfg out of the above directory, substituting 'me' for whatever your user name is of course, and you can at least start Pegasus again, and get going.

 

<p>I'm a long-time user of Pegasus, and recently upgraded to v4.51.  So far, so good.  I also recently replaced my aging laptop (a beloved old dog of a machine running windows 2000), and am now forced [:(] to use windows 7.</p><p>My long time strategy is to keep mirrored copies of my mail archive on the desktop (windows xp) and laptop machines. With the new release of windows, my user directory c:\me is now c:\users\me.  This means if I try to synchronise between the two machines, pmail.ini gets overwritten from one machine to the other resulting in a small mess.  I can manually fix pmail.ini each time I synchronise, but I'd really rather not.  My question is this:</p><p>Is there a more sophisticated way of keeping the mail archive in sync between the two machines, other than the brute-force method of overwriting the older archive with the newer whenever I switch from one machine to the other?</p><p>This old strategy has served me well, but the archive is getting a little big now, and copying the whole thing back and forth is no longer a quick operation.</p><p> </p><p>____________________________________________________________ </p><p>On a slightly related note, running windows 7 64-bit means pconfig.exe does not work.  Reading other posts, it seems the strategy is to delete pmail.cfg out of the programs directory of Pegasus.  Since I (arguably stupidly) installed Pegasus in the Program Files (x86) directory for consistency's sake with other applications, this file was somewhat mysteriously not there.  Searching around for it, due to windows 7's virtualisation issues, it creates a mirrored copy located at:</p><p>c:\users\me\appdata\local\virtualstore\program files(x86)\pmail\programs</p><p>I initially botched the setup, so Pegasus wouldn't start, hence the attempt at using pconfig.  Delete pmail.cfg out of the above directory, substituting 'me' for whatever your user name is of course, and you can at least start Pegasus again, and get going. </p><p> </p>

What I do is use Mercury/32 and IMAP4.  Mercury/32 uses the same c:\pmail\mail mailbox directory used by the desktop PMail installation.  Mercury/32 also handles all of the mail sending/receiving as well so that the built-in mailer is not necessary.

The laptop gets the mail from the desktop via IMAP4 so it never really has to be synchronized with the desktop system.

 When I am on the road I use PMail run from the local hard drive and put the mail that I want to save in a folder called transfer.  The only thing I need to do when I get back home is connect via IMAP4 and move the mail from the transfer folder back to the proper folder on the desktop.   I do transfer the glossary and addressbooks from the desktop to the laptop on a regular basis and especially just before going on the road.

<p>What I do is use Mercury/32 and IMAP4.  Mercury/32 uses the same c:\pmail\mail mailbox directory used by the desktop PMail installation.  Mercury/32 also handles all of the mail sending/receiving as well so that the built-in mailer is not necessary.</p><p>The laptop gets the mail from the desktop via IMAP4 so it never really has to be synchronized with the desktop system.</p><p> When I am on the road I use PMail run from the local hard drive and put the mail that I want to save in a folder called transfer.  The only thing I need to do when I get back home is connect via IMAP4 and move the mail from the transfer folder back to the proper folder on the desktop.   I do transfer the glossary and addressbooks from the desktop to the laptop on a regular basis and especially just before going on the road. </p>
live preview
enter atleast 10 characters
WARNING: You mentioned %MENTIONS%, but they cannot see this message and will not be notified
Saving...
Saved
With selected deselect posts show selected posts
All posts under this topic will be deleted ?
Pending draft ... Click to resume editing
Discard draft