Hello community, SOLVED !!!

special thanks to Sven for the hint and many thanks to the whole community for all the inputs I could gather.

tried a lot of things, many new installations of pmail, programs here, accounts there, rights everywhere...

cut the story short:

install Pegasus Mail in root c:/, (multiple) user accounts in c:/pmail/mail/, check rights for directory in Windows 7 (with explorer, security), DONE.

Looking forward to another 50 years with Pegasus, Wolfgang

There is a file called bpanel.txt in the Resource directory (c:\PMAILl\Programs\Resource in my case), which you can use to create the toolbar.pm file. You can also search this forum for posts/threads about "toolbar.pm".

Good luck!
Steffan

I would start by confirming that the problem *is* spamhalter. Disable it completely and see what happens. Then step through any active Content Control sets, and also your mail filters and autofiltering. Any of these may be responsible (though the final one is unlikely otherwise all of the messages would be redirected to the same place).

Likely there is some wording or phrase in certain of the messages (or headers) which is being picked up on and filtered. turn everything off, test, then re-activate bit-by-bit. Laborious but specific. Let us know what you find.

[quote user="jrlandau"]

I am killing a process with the same name as the main one--winpm-32.exe.  As for a pattern, it may be that this occurs (sometimes) when a character is first typed in the To field, and at least once this happened after Pegasus was invoked with a "File/Send Link" menu choice from Firefox.  I have also seen a process called W???PICK.EXE sticking around at the same time.[/quote]

It would really help to find a distinct patter. How often does this happen? Did you consider changing your WinSock settings as suggested in the other thread I pointed to before (Go to Tools => Options => Advanced settings and set Load

Windows Internet Services ... to Always, then restart

Pegasus Mail.)?

Let me understand things: you want to configure Hotmail to display mail from an account that you normally download using Pegasus?

The abilities, limitations and settings of Hotmail are not what we discuss on this forum. I'm sure Hotmail can do what you want but you would not need to change anything in Pegasus (with the possible exception of leaving mail on the server, depending on your situation).

Perhaps I am wrong about what you are trying to do, in which case please post again with more information.

[quote user="Thomas R. Stephenson"]> How can I import these e-mails from folders on the laptop to the same named, or different, folders on the desktop? I do, of course, have a
> network between the two machines when at my home desk.

Since you are networked you can use "Add mailbox to list" and point at the mailbox directory on the desktop.  This now is an added mailbox on the laptop. You can then create folders on the desktop and move the mail into these folders.  You cannot move folders between mailboxes, it looks like it works but it does not.

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I have a similar requirement, which has a simple solution -- I created identical installations of Pegasus on my two computers (same directories and folder names) and run a (free) synchronization program called AllwaySync which keeps these two copies of Pegasus identical whenever I need to switch between one system and the other.  

I use AllwaySync to keep all my data available and current when I travel with the laptop and then return home; not just with Pegasus..

Look at www.allwaysync.com/   The program is free for non-commercial use.

> Of course, I need help! But well, if someone on the internet tells you to delete stuff, you should not follow that blindly.

You are not blindly asking on the internet, you are asking on a support group. You are getting answers from knowledgable people, if someone makes an error with an answer  there will be 3-4 people who will followup with corrections. If you continue to ask for second opinions it will just mean people will not bother to answer your questions.

> Am I the only one who gets slight shivers when people tell her to delete something??

Probably not but I do not know why this is such a problem.  If you worry, don't delete, simply move the file off the system.

> And no, nothing happened after I deleted the files.

I was about to say that I thought you had to create a new identity first (Tools -> Identities) before you create new POP3 settings, but I think that's only what you want to do if you want to use different settings for each email account (a very trivial example, different color settings for your folders). What I find useful with different identities is that you can assign identities to your folders, so when you reply to an email in that folder it will be automatically under this identity (=the email will be sent with the email account you have assigned to this identity).

And at first look if there is any *.cnm file having 0 bytes - this one you surely can delete safely! The others *.cnm move somewhere instead of raw deleting - you may want to get them back.

I don't really know I've tried just sending an email with PMAIL just to see if it will work, but I'm not really sure. I've never used this program before, I just used the manuals to configure everything(POP3, SMTP) and the documentation on how to Configure Visual Web Developer to use an SMTP. Other then that  I can't really tell you anything more.  

Ok, clear. Thanks for your suggestion!

[quote user="tin-can"]

My mail client is Yahoo. 

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I'm confused about why you're posting on a Pegasus forum if you don't use Pegasus...

Thanks for the response.  Yes, I refer to text in dialog boxes and lists like the one showing mail waiting on the server or the left pane of the address book.  See a neighboring thread titled "low vision use?"  where I've posted more detail (in hopes of helping both myself and that OP).  As outlined there, I found the Win7 "advanced" settings.  None of them seems to affect the problem screen areas.  I listed some possible workarounds in the other thread.  Will add

greater enlightenment there if I discover any.  :-)

Seems to me there's a sad irony here.  Many of us old fogies who've relied on and loved Pegasus for many years, finally graduate up to new equipment with much higher display resolutions, only to find that our favorite mail client becomes less rather than more convenient.  (And yes, I do understand that David puts yeoman effort into a free application.)

Thanks again for the response.  -Ron

Trust me, I've changed all possible Windows settings to larger fonts.

This client uses a much more comprehensive magnifying program than Windows' magnifier - but it doesn't help to have some text tiny and some big enough to read...

[quote user="fojtik"]Pegasus Mail 4.52 crashes when zero size .CNM file appear - please fix.[/quote]

> I often need to type the letters E H R, with no spaces, which Pegasus always helpfully changes to HER.  Aargh!

Turn off the automatic formatting or change the string ehr in the Tools | Options | Automatic formatting to return EHR instead of her and it will go away.

> I have several mail accounts, and I have addedd them to the default user. The system collects all mail, and everything seems to be
> working, But, If i  for example have   jobe77@xxx.xx as default user, and the mail I'm going to reply to, is sent to webmaster@xxx.xx, I
> want the pegasus to use the original reciver as the sender, and NOT the default user.
>
> So if i reply on a message that someone sent to webmaster@xxx.xx, I want it to be replied by webmaster@xxx.xx, and not jobe77@xxx.xx
>
> Is this at all supported?

You need to use "Identities" to do this.

1.     Go to Tools | Identities and setup an identity for each e-mail address you will be using to send/receive mail.

2,    Become that identity and modify the Tools | Options and Tools | Internet options to match that identity.

3.    Create a folder for each identity and use new mail filtering (or autofiltering) to put the mail into this folder based on the e-mail address or some other unique identifier.  (Many mail message do not contain the e-mail address of the local user.)

4.    Attach the appropriate identity to each folder.

Now when the mail is downloaded it is moved from the new mail folder to the identities folder via filtering.  All replies and forwards from the folder will use the attached identity.

I have this message,

[quote user="Thomas R. Stephenson"]> Now the IMAP4 protocol has many problems of it's own so in this case I'm not too sure anyone, even the original UW developers, ever get this right.

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Sorry Thomas, did not quote the sentence that I was referring to.

IMAP4 is a busy protocol is true, having problems is what I would challenge or disagree with. Looking at the Exchange 2000 thru 2010 protocol makes IMAP seem very simple and robust. Having to admin Exchange 2k-210 for anywhere from 300 to 45k endusers I am glad to be away from it.

As with pop3/smtp you very well know and see how different clients play fast and loose with RFC's.

Mark Crispin is one of the original developers of the protocol and major sections of Pine which was used to develop other clients.

Sorry this is getting OT.

I like and use Pegasus, it has some quarks, but it gets the job done. Pegasus follows e-mail standards, sometimes having to bend them in order to communicate with broken servers/clients. It is a very tough job for David H and the beta group which I do appreciate, not member of the 1000 but do make donations when possible (next scheduled for march).