My goodness. Such an easy fix for a problem I've been having for a very long time. Several factors have been moving me away from Pegasus and this was one of them. Unfortunately, changing the Windows Default Printer may not be an easy thing to get used to. I'll try it for awhile and see if it works out.

I don't remember when I first experienced the "extremely slow Pegasus" problem but it has been at least two years, and very frustrating to say the least.

Thanks,
Ken Long
Albuquerque, NM - USA 

 Iuse Windows 7 and Pegasus 4.63.

4.63 was working fine, but I must have changed a setting? Sending mail screen takes a minute to load, sending mail takes a minute, and every process is real slow. What happened?

see below

Pegasus Mail for Microsoft Windows
Copyright (C) 1992-2011, David Harris, all rights reserved
Electronic mail to support@pmail.gen.nz.

WinPMail version: Version 4.63 (Win32), Dec 22 2011, build ID 325
Language resources: Standard UK English resource set
Extension Manager version: 1.14
Operating mode: Standalone
User name and ID: Single-user mode, 0
Windows version: 6.1
Windows flag word: 0
WINPMAIL.EXE directory: C:\pmail2\PROGRAMS
Home mailbox location: C:\PMAIL\MAIL
New mailbox location: C:\PMAIL\MAIL
TMP environment variable: C:\Users\NABSCO~1\AppData\Local\Temp
TEMP environment variable: C:\Users\NABSCO~1\AppData\Local\Temp
LAN-based SMTP support: N, N, N
NetWare MHS support: N, N, N
Built-in TCP/IP support: Enabled
  - WINSOCK version: WinSock 2.0
  - WINSOCK path: C:\Windows\system32\WSOCK32.DLL
Commandline:
Active -Z options: 32768
PMR variable: (None)
PML variable: (None)
MAI variable: (None)
NB variable: (None)
Autofiltering folders: 0 (0 active, 0 inactive)
Last new mail count: 77
Message size soft limit: 0 bytes
Message size hard limit: 0 bytes
Attachment size soft limit: 0 bytes
Attachment size hard limit: 0 bytes

Think I found problem, thanks to another post. If Pegasus does not like your default Printer, it runs real slow. I simply changed default printers, and all is well!

I was going to tell you that. Glad you found the culprit all by yourself. Anyway, and just to add to your findings, another cause for slowness can be LAN (remote) printers. You can overcome this by using a local virtual printer (like a PDF printer driver) as default, and the remote printer for real printing jobs.