Good catch!  And thanks for reporting your findings back to the forum.

I just upgraded to 4.62. On one of my computers it runs very slow compared to 4.5 versions. This is a great inconvenience. Is there something i need to do to make it download emails and erase them like at earlier speeds. Am using win XP

[quote user="Ed Duskin"]I just upgraded to 4.62. On one of my computers it runs very slow compared to 4.5 versions. This is a great inconvenience. Is there something i need to do to make it download emails and erase them like at earlier speeds. Am using win XP[/quote]

Set Tools => Options => Advanced settings => Load Windows Internet Services ... to Always and restart.

One of our networked computers was likewise incredibly slow on 4.61 - getting to the point it wouldn't really open at all unless we were remarkably patient. The problem remained after upgrading to 4.63.

The above-mentioned Internet Tool setting has always been on, and I tried options such as "-roam" and much else besides. Ordinary network traffic was consistently fine to that computer, and Pegasus on all other computers was ok.

In the end, I solved it by deleting Pmail.cfg and running PMConfig to recreate it, very easy. This definitely fixed the problem, but I made one other change in conjunction - instead of using a dedicated share I'd had for the past two years (\\server\pmail), I reverted to using i:\pmail (via mapped drive I), which we'd previously used without problems for a decade.

One or other of the above steps fixed it for us.

An update on this one. One one of our newer Win7 computers, Pegasus was continuing to be really, really slow even though all other software seemed fine. We put up with it for years, but today it was solved in the process of trying to sort out a different network issue.

 Now it's as slick as every other machine.

 The solution is to go into your network card adaptors and DISABLE "Large Send Offload" for IPv4, and also for IPv6 if you use the latter.  Worth doing it on your server's card settings as well as the client's. Huge difference for Pegasus, possibly for other stuff as well. Wish I'd found it long ago, so posting it here in case it helps others.

 The setting in question makes the network card do some of the CPUs work in handling large transmissions. But with fast CPUs, it is not needed, and clearly its implementation is problematic on at least some cards, and for some software.