Thanks again, Martin. Fortuantely, they were NOT saved in the New Mail folder. That would have been a disaster - 46,000+ other files where they would be lost for sure.They went to a TEMP folder, of course, not one of the many TEMP folders that I knew about. But, certainly better than the New Mail folder.

 The big drawback for my purposes was the inability to display To, From, Subject and Date, so I am painstakingly renaming each file to make it more identifiable without having to open it. A spreadsheet will contain the details of each file. Not a particularly pretty solution, but a solution nonetheless. Thank you for your utility. It was worth a hundred times... no, a thousand times the cost.

I have manually split files before, but there is no way I would have done it with this mess. By the way, did I say "Thank you?"

Dennis

I need to send someone all of the mail in one of my folders. It would be easy enough to just zip a copy of the folder and hand it to them, but they don't use Pegasus, and would need a way to access and print some of the messages. Is there some lightweight stand-alone or portable application for Windows that they can use to view the folder's contents as if it were in an e-mail program? I could print each message to PDF, but the folder contains over a hundred messages, many with attachments which need to stay connected to the e-mail.  Thanks for your assistance.

Here's what I'd do.  

Open the folder

Select all the messages

Click on Forward then, in the options try "Start a new message with the messages attached"

That may create a massive e-mail message that won't go out.  So if that doesn't work, click on "Forward the messages without editing (redirect or bounce)" That will forward all of the messages separately to the recipient.

 good luck 

My extension NOTSPLIT, will split a folder into individual messages, and attachments stay attached.  The result is still readable but includes all the standard Mime headers and trailers, as well as attachments are mostly Base64 encoded so are not readable or useable unless you decode them yourself. You can get NOTSPLIT from http://community.pmail.com/files/folders/utils/entry3962.aspx

As for "light-weight application". The application would have to be as complex as Pegasus Mail, or Thunderbird, to make sense of the email message stream, in order to display a message.   There are utilities, such as Dawn, around that will transfer email messages between email applications, 

Martin 

Thanks for the suggestions. I was trying not to do them as e-mails since that would create a huge clutter in the recipient's mailbox, and I don't want the original messages altered by another mailserver. I was just trying to do something like a digest.

Hi, Martin. NOTSPLIT might be a solution.  I presume that when the messages are split out of the folder, they are simply text files, yes? I don't care if the attachments are immediately readable. How are the resulting files identified? sequence, date/time?  Thanks for your help.

Dennis

The contents of a folder are extracted  and placed in the Newmail directory as *.CNM files, which are discrete files. They can then be copied away to somewhere outside Pegasus Mail directory tree and dealt with.  Once copied away, delete them from the Newmail directory, or they will get processed again into folders specified in any rules you have set up.

Martin