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[quote user="Shaharin"]I've always had it "on demand", ever since I started using PMail, back in about 1995 or so, and never encountered this problem.[/quote] Times are changing: It turned out that the ... on demand setting would be causing performance issues (plus rightout POP3/SMTP failures) in connection with some HTML rendering features (a rather complex issue): Don't forget to restart Pegasus Mail after changing this option.

[quote user="Shaharin"]I've always had it "on demand", ever since I started using PMail, back in about 1995 or so, and never encountered this problem.[/quote] Times are changing: It turned out that the <em>... on demand</em> setting would be causing performance issues (plus rightout POP3/SMTP failures) in connection with some HTML rendering features (a rather complex issue): Don't forget to restart Pegasus Mail after changing this option.
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Forgive me if it's been posted already, but clearly I couldn't figure out the right key word for searching.

 I've found, both the 4.61 and now 4.62, if I have it open for for some time, suddenly, for no discernible reason, it stops working. Nothing too obvious. It lets me push the buttons but nothing happens. I know, for example, that there are emails waiting to be downloaded (because I received them on my phone) but they won't download - PMail won't even start checking the mailboxes. On other occasions, I try to save an attachment, and nothing happens. It still lets me read existing emails. It even lets me read the attachment. Just can't save it. So I close it down, which it also quite happily does. BUT, it doesn't close down in the task manager - only on the screen.

 A zombie winpm-32.exe process remains.  I don't have to kill (but usually do) it to start up a new instance of PM which then happily goes about its business as it should, downloading emails and saving attachments and whatnot. The zombie process usually has a memory footprint of about 150Mb, which is sometimes as much as double that of the new, functioning one.

 Any suggestions, ideas? Or is this a bug? I am using 32-bit Windows 7 Enterprise with all current updates.

<p>Forgive me if it's been posted already, but clearly I couldn't figure out the right key word for searching.</p><p> I've found, both the 4.61 and now 4.62, if I have it open for for some time, suddenly, for no discernible reason, it stops working. Nothing too obvious. It lets me push the buttons but nothing happens. I know, for example, that there are emails waiting to be downloaded (because I received them on my phone) but they won't download - PMail won't even start checking the mailboxes. On other occasions, I try to save an attachment, and nothing happens. It still lets me read existing emails. It even lets me read the attachment. Just can't save it. So I close it down, which it also quite happily does. BUT, it doesn't close down in the task manager - only on the screen. </p><p> A zombie winpm-32.exe process remains.  I don't have to kill (but usually do) it to start up a new instance of PM which then happily goes about its business as it should, downloading emails and saving attachments and whatnot. The zombie process usually has a memory footprint of about 150Mb, which is sometimes as much as double that of the new, functioning one. </p><p> Any suggestions, ideas? Or is this a bug? I am using 32-bit Windows 7 Enterprise with all current updates. </p>

[quote user="Shaharin"] Any suggestions, ideas? Or is this a bug? I am using 32-bit Windows 7 Enterprise with all current updates.[/quote]

I have no idea what causes this, but maybe you need to ensure that Tools => Options => Advanced settings => Load Windows Internet Services ... is set to Always (or Never if using an external gateway).

<p>[quote user="Shaharin"] Any suggestions, ideas? Or is this a bug? I am using 32-bit Windows 7 Enterprise with all current updates.[/quote]</p><p>I have no idea what causes this, but maybe you need to ensure that <em>Tools => Options => Advanced settings => Load Windows Internet Services ...</em> is set to <em>Always</em> (or <em>Never</em> if using an external gateway).</p>
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I've always had it "on demand", ever since I started using PMail, back in about 1995 or so, and never encountered this problem. I've now set it to "Always" and will wait and see what happens!

I've always had it "on demand", ever since I started using PMail, back in about 1995 or so, and never encountered this problem. I've now set it to "Always" and will wait and see what happens!
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