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pegasus and windows 7

Please copy to output of Help, About, Info button display and post so we can see how and where installed and where new mail is located.

Is there any Anti Virus or file checking program running on the system and how is it set up? Does it work as proxy and put itself between Pegasus Mail and connection to mail server and/or the SMTP server? Are you running in standalone mode or are you running winpm-32 from a server install? Pegasus Mail can not read or write data any faster than read/write from drive location so the speed of connection is a limiting factor. Also speed and availability to exchange data with printer driver is factor also and if that is slow to read/write it will slow down mail accordingly. Is defined default  printer local to your machine or across network? 

<p>Please copy to output of Help, About, Info button display and post so we can see how and where installed and where new mail is located.</p><p>Is there any Anti Virus or file checking program running on the system and how is it set up? Does it work as proxy and put itself between Pegasus Mail and connection to mail server and/or the SMTP server? Are you running in standalone mode or are you running winpm-32 from a server install? Pegasus Mail can not read or write data any faster than read/write from drive location so the speed of connection is a limiting factor. Also speed and availability to exchange data with printer driver is factor also and if that is slow to read/write it will slow down mail accordingly. Is defined default  printer local to your machine or across network? </p>

I have a windows 7 op system on a Toshiba Satellite C650D 64 bit machine and Pegasus barely works. When I click to reply it takes several minutes to give me the reply window. When I do a send it takes several more minutes to send the email.

 

I have used Pegasus for years and have never had a problem. The first thing I noticed on the Toshiba was that when I copied the Mail folder over, Pegasus didn't recognize it. That was always how I carried my emails over to a new computer in the past.

 

Almost everything I do with it is amazingly slow. 

 

I did try to uninstall it and reinstall it a couple of times but that didn't help.

 

I am using Pegasus 4.63.

 

My email address is bob@csatennis.com or csawtt@yahoo.com.

Please help!

 

Bob

 

<p>I have a windows 7 op system on a Toshiba Satellite C650D 64 bit machine and Pegasus barely works. When I click to reply it takes several minutes to give me the reply window. When I do a send it takes several more minutes to send the email.</p><p> </p><p>I have used Pegasus for years and have never had a problem. The first thing I noticed on the Toshiba was that when I copied the Mail folder over, Pegasus didn't recognize it. That was always how I carried my emails over to a new computer in the past.</p><p> </p><p>Almost everything I do with it is amazingly slow. </p><p> </p><p>I did try to uninstall it and reinstall it a couple of times but that didn't help.</p><p> </p><p>I am using Pegasus 4.63. </p><p> </p><p>My email address is bob@csatennis.com or csawtt@yahoo.com.</p><p>Please help!</p><p> </p><p>Bob</p><p> </p>

The days of being able to copy Pegasus Mail from one machine to another are gone.  Pegasus Mail has had to advance to keep up with Microsoft operating systems.  One thing to know about Pegasus Mail on Win7 is that it does not work if installed anywhere in the Program Files folder.  If the install is in C:\PMAIL you can try to re-install v4.63 over that existing installation though I don't expect this will solve you problem.  You may need to do a clean install, configure it, create users as per the previous install and then copy messages and folders from the existing mailbox folders.  Start with all .cnm files(these are new mail messages so there may not be any) then all .pmm/.pmi pairs (these are the folder files).  A valuable reference is the list of filenames and extensions located at:

http://www.vandenbogaerde.net/pegasusmail/pf_pmfiles.html

Avoid copying any configuration files.   You can use a text editor to view or print out the existing pmail.ini file as well as any .pnd files to use as reference as you configure the new install.

 

<p>The days of being able to copy Pegasus Mail from one machine to another are gone.  Pegasus Mail has had to advance to keep up with Microsoft operating systems.  One thing to know about Pegasus Mail on Win7 is that it does not work if installed anywhere in the Program Files folder.  If the install is in C:\PMAIL you can try to re-install v4.63 over that existing installation though I don't expect this will solve you problem.  You may need to do a clean install, configure it, create users as per the previous install and then copy messages and folders from the existing mailbox folders.  Start with all .cnm files(these are new mail messages so there may not be any) then all .pmm/.pmi pairs (these are the folder files).  A valuable reference is the list of filenames and extensions located at: </p><p>http://www.vandenbogaerde.net/pegasusmail/pf_pmfiles.html</p><p>Avoid copying any configuration files.   You can use a text editor to view or print out the existing pmail.ini file as well as any .pnd files to use as reference as you configure the new install.</p><p> </p>

Bob--

Sorry to hear about your problem.  Sorry that I have no solution.

I most commonly use Pegasus under Windows 7 Professional (32-bit) on an old IBM X40 Thinkpad.  Except for my frustration that current Pegasus becomes remarkably confused--and may destroy the mail folder hierarchy--when switched from multi-monitor to single monitor environment, I have found no slow down with 32-bit Windows 7.

Like many, I keep hoping for Pegasus 5.  I have the highest regard and the highest appreciation for David Harris.  Maybe we have asked too much and given him too little support.

Good Luck with resolving your problem.

--John

<p>Bob-- </p><p>Sorry to hear about your problem.  Sorry that I have no solution.</p><p>I most commonly use Pegasus under Windows 7 Professional (32-bit) on an old IBM X40 Thinkpad.  Except for my frustration that current Pegasus becomes remarkably confused--and may destroy the mail folder hierarchy--when switched from multi-monitor to single monitor environment, I have found no slow down with 32-bit Windows 7.</p><p>Like many, I keep hoping for Pegasus 5.  I have the highest regard and the highest appreciation for David Harris.  Maybe we have asked too much and given him too little support.</p><p>Good Luck with resolving your problem. </p><p>--John </p>
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