I don't know if the solution you found works but if in case of it wouldn't you can try the following :

Using the mail filtering wizard you can test the sender's address and send him/her a reply recorded in a text file.

HTH

[quote user="bfluet"]

As already stated, Pegasus Mail will not pin when it is not "installed" (e.g. it is being run from a LAN location, USB device, SD card, external drive).  This is not a limitation of Pegasus Mail but one of Win7.  You must trick Win7 by pinning an installed program then changing the properties of that pin to those of a Pegasus Mail shortcut.

[/quote]

This has been done not once but several times using different programs, Scotty the watch dog BillP Studios & Irfvan View with a copy remaining pinned either on the Status Bar and/or Start button top previous run programs and even remained with the previous programs Icon and changing to PM's Icon.  None would work, have changed all back to the original programs and Icons.  Just need to learn to live with this the way it runs and works.

Thank you for all suggestions and the assistance.  With all the other difficulties that have transpired over this last weekend I am surprised my system even works . . .

[quote user="denniss"]I get the input window to enter user name, Pegasus goes through the normal routine until the last step, opening new mail folder, then I get this message:

Well, I was able to recreate the circumstances exactly: same friend initiated correspondence, I responded, he responds commenting on the mystery string.  We did it twice, first with Clam Sentinel configured to white list - not monitor - the Pegasus program and mailbox directories, second time with directories removed from white list. 

Both times, the string did not appear.

I guess I will have to wait for the mystery string to reappear to farther pursue its cause.

Thanks for the consult.

Don Davis

[quote user="bfluet"]There are plenty of other things that can be impacted when changing operating systems.  The fact that you have a non-standard install makes it more difficult to troubleshoot.  The best option may be to do a clean install of Pegasus Mail and then restore message files, addressbook files, distribution list files, etc. from the old mailbox directory(ies).  Hans' guide to filenames and extensions is a valuable reference for this.  http://www.vandenbogaerde.net/pegasusmail/pf_pmfiles.html.[/quote]

Strictly recommended: Windows 7 just changes so many things that it'll be almost impossible to figure out what's going on there. It might be an issue with the TEMP folder, but this is only another guess.

[quote user="KathleenSews"]The SpamHalter error message is shown below. Should I do this?[/quote]

The image you tried to attach is unfortunately not available for us, but don't do anything like this before trying a clean reinstall and transferring all required files to the new location.

I as well get many per day and do the same.  This was the first time the Alert came in from Avast! and all went well.  There have been more than usual in the last month or so.  Have also noted that SPAM Halter is not classifying all of the ones that are IDed as [Bulk] by my ISP, which I have set in their WebMail on their server.  Maybe need to go in and set a filter in PegMail to ID any that are [Bulk] in the Subject line for SPAM Halter to take over.

Simultaneous connection to a mailbox with multiple instances of Pegasus Mail can cause corruption to the folder structure.  Had that happen here last week when a user ignored the locked mailbox warning.

Hmm - outside your domain - you are shure we are talking about distributionlists as known to Pegasus ... or do you talk about mailinglists?

A distributionlist within Pegasus is only accessable for those within your network, who have access to the distributionlistfile. It is only an function of Pegasus, usually not available to the internet.

A mailinglist may be configured to set header "reply-to" to the mailaddress of the mailinglist.

But in both cases: if the one answering has configured his mailclient to answer only to FROM (ignoring any other field like REPLY-TO, TO, CC) or (i.e. with thunderbird) clicks on "Answer" instead on "Answer list", this is simply a misshandling by the user of that mailclient. If he uses Pegasus, in my opinion best selection in answering dialog is to only select "Reply-To". If REPLY-TO is not set, Pegasus will automatically use FROM for answering.

Reinstallation shouldn't be necessary.  What are the server settings you have been given by the isp?

Does this sound like what you are seeing?  From the help file:

The two colour buttons in this section allow you to alter the colours Pegasus Mail uses in its list of folders to identify folders that contain new mail. The first button, Colour for folders containing unread mail, defines the colour that is used for any folder containing messages that have not been marked as read. The second button, Colour for folders containing recent unread mail defines the colour Pegasus Mail should use to identify folders into which mail has been moved since they were last opened in the current session. Note that mail is only "recent" if it is received while the program is running: as soon as you exit and restart Pegasus Mail, any messages that were "recent" in the previous session simply become "unread" in the new session.

Notice that 1) "new mail" is not the same as unread mail, and 2) "new mail" is no longer considered new mail (recent) once in a new session of Pegasus Mail. 

Thank you for this link. I am thrilled to learn of David's efforts and progress. I will be so happy to contribute financially to his work.

 Gratefully,

 Jules 

Welcome!  If you have multiple email addresses I encourage you to use the help files and the manual to familiarize yourself with the concepts of users and identities.  Understanding these concepts will help unlock the power and flexibility of Pegasus Mail.

[quote user="breezes"]Strange thing though.  Some of those messages were 5 years ole, but the peoblem never happened under Pegasus 4.41.  Why not?
[/quote]

The automatic saving of messages option is there as a precaution against loss as a result of a crash so perhaps an enchancement was made between v4.41 and v4.63 to automatically display auto-saved messages.  The assumption being that if there are any auto-saved message then the start up is a recovery from a crash so more conveniently gets the user back to the message(s) in progress.  This is just conjecture though..

Hi, Gac,

 When you say " When I run Pegasus locally on this old PC, performance is much the same." do you mean much the same as slow (like me) or much the same as in zippy like your i5?

 I did defrag early this year. The system is about in line with your old machine, a Celeron running Win2000.  I have a folder per customer, that is why there are so many. It sounds like you also have a slow search across folders and I think that may be at the root of the problem. I had resisted archiving them because of the sheer simplicity of being able to search for some unknown client-wide as it were. We keep the new mail folder generally down to one screen or less, moving stuff into the client folders as soon as we have generated some paper to clue us to who, when, what. When we forget something then it is time for an all-client folders search, usually restricted to a specific time frame - this week, this month, this year, whatever.

If I use the system monitor (Ctl-Alt-Del) and look at the memory used and the processing power used during these search operations, neither indicate that they are running out of steam. Hence my sense that it is a hdd bottleneck - and may you not be suffering from the same on your mail store server?

 Thanks for the input.

 Ian

[quote user="idw"]As mentioned elsewhere Pegasus Mail's IMAP code is completely being rewritten by David Harris, and it appears to be one of the harder tasks as he recently complained to us beta testers. It currently has multiple limitations and is one of the remaining major reasons for crashes as I can tell by crash dumps submitted.[/quote]

I believe that it's no fun to deal with IMAP and I wouldn't like to do it, too.

But a good IMAP implementation is a must have today.

Sadly there are not many options these days. Maybe the least evil is Thunderbird, but I will investigate also eM Client and Claws.

Oliver

This explanation sounds "strange".

I know about the length limitation in the folder format, but I see no reason why it shouldn't be possible to store a reasonable string there.

Nevertheless thanks for investigating (likely not being worth the effort).

Oliver

In addition to address book file pairs there are also winpmfua.pm list of recently used addresses and two other files that also record addresses used you could copy from the old drive to the home mail box location on the new drive.

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

for files and names reference.

I see your post where you included what you thought was the headers has shown up in this thread.  That content is the entire message.  If you were to replace the content of the Subject header (everything from and including the beginning '=' sign and through the ending '=' sign) with something like Bad CNM then place it in your mailbox folder (c:\pmail\mail) you would then be able to see the message in the Pegasus Mail new message folder.  It's really not worth the effort since it is a worthless message but if you find this intriquing, go for it.

Enter the necessary server details in Tools | Internet options.

It works!

Thanks, bro!

Eleanor White