Thanks for explaining how to import addresses...I'm wanting to switch to Pegasus on my work computer.

I have a tab-delimited file of names and email addresses ready to import into an address book in Pegaus.

But there is no mention in the help section in importing address book entries on how to do it
just a bit on need for tabs field separation and tagging the name and email fields.
Nor do any of the menu times seem to deal with this function.

First you need to determine what format the original address book is in. Then you need to see what formats the original system supports for exporting its addressbook entries. There are utility programs on the Internet, such as DAWN which can import and export between many different formats (nearly all are proprietary or not in the sequence needed by Pegasus Mail).

For DAWN see: http://email.about.com/od/windowsemailclients/gr/dawn.html

For download see: http://mysite.verizon.net/zakharin/software/Dawn/download.html

We need more information if you want us to help further

Martin 

I have a tab-delimited file ready to import but there is no info on how to do that in Pegasus help.

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I have a tab-delimited file ready to import but there is no info on how to do that in Pegasus help.

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With winpm-32 open hit the F3 key which will open address center. Look way up top on main toolbar in addressbook menu and note the import item. Place your file in a location on drive you can locate and then point to that location and file.

The import section from Help:

Importing and Exporting Addressbook Entries

If you have lists of addresses in other programs, you may be able to import them into your Pegasus Mail addressbook. Similarly, Pegasus Mail allows you to export all or selected addresses from an addressbook to a file that can subsequently be imported into other applications.

Two import/export formats are available: the first, tagged format, is a simple textual format where each line contains one field from the entry, starting with a tag, or a name that identifies the field. Only Pegasus Mail can usually import this format, but it is easy to read and to incorporate into word processors. The second format is tab-delimited text: in this format, each record is held in a single line in the file, and fields within the record are separated from each other using <Tab> characters. Tab-delimited format can be easily imported into many databases and spreadsheet programs.

When exporting to tagged format, each field is named, so the order of the fields is not important: to see the format used during tagged export and import, simply select a couple of records in an addressbook and choose Export to tagged text file from the Addressbook menu. Once the export is complete, examine the output file.

When exporting to tab-delimited format, the addressbook fields are exported in the following order:

    Name/Alias
    E-mail address
    Key
    Department
    Phone
    Fax
    Delivery address
    Postal address
    Details
    Image filename

In tab-delimited format, you must specify a Name/alias field and an E-mail address field - all other fields are optional and can be omitted. Fields can also be empty if you wish, and will be safely truncated to acceptable lengths if they are too long. When you fail to specify a Key field, Pegasus Mail will attempt to create one for you - for this reason, Name/alias fields are best expressed as "Firstname Lastname".