First of all I wouild create a session log of the whole transaction.  Go to MercurE configuration and fill in the directory and check the session log box. (Don't forget to turn it off later as they can get quite large.

 With the complete detail, you will be able to see what's happening with these connections.

Hello!

Is the option "Use system-defined colours in Pegasus Mail's controls" of any help? You find it at "Tools" | "Options" | "General setting" | "Basic settings".
She may try it and see whether checking or unchecking it matters.

jss1941/Angus:

You gentlemen are working with a local copy of pmail, with local mail folders and a local inbox.
The standby issue will never bite you because your files are *local*, they are always "there."

Oh, regarding the help thing;

"Help" files on Microsoft windows are (de-facto, for me at least) more harm than good because I can't read the stuff because of their choice of fonts and sizes.

[A] The fonts are too small (even with the "large" option) and the choice of fonts is approximately impossible for me to read. The leters merge together on the screen. It's an eyesight thing.

I have tried using a magnifying glass, which isolates words and letters to start with, and then I find myself trying to deduce which pixels go with which letters. After all that, I try to form a word; it's a lot like Captain Midnight's secret decoder rings.

Anyway, thanks a lot for your help. I can now read my messages on my screen. Pegasus looks like a very good E-mail client.

[quote user="Han v.d. Bogaerde"]

Ok, step two might be a problem in either state.pmj or hierarch.pm:

Try the following procedure.  This works to restore the functionality of the  message folders or to recover from a system crash: 

1.  Use Help | About Pegasus Mail | Info to determine your mail
    directory.  Exit Pegasus mail. 

2.  Rename the file HIERARCH.PM in your HOME mail directory to
    HIERARCH.SAV. 

3.  Run WinPMail.  Your HIERARCH.PM will be re-created and
    should start working correctly. 

Be advised that this may delete any tree structure you have created and may have to be recreated. 

If it still doesn't open, do the above for state.pmj as well.

[/quote]

 Hi there.

I have been having this problem with a handful of users over the past few weeks and just wanted to let you know that the above solution resolved the issue for me.

 Thanks,

Dan.

I guess I found out: regardless of the setting in the options it seems that WHEN you search, the marking of "Delete search results on exit" in the search window is critical. Without marking this the individuel search result still remain after PM exit.  Otherwise not.

[quote]"forward message without editing"[/quote]

Thanks, that seems to work fine. 

[quote]I don't however, understand why you have to fill out the address in

each and every message since you should have done so in the initial

dialogue box.[/quote]

I've only seen this procedure once when someone else was doing it. So I was incorrect about that - you do only need to enter the address once.

Re Spamhalter. I think for the time being I'd prefer to use just the one anti-spam mechanism (Mail Foundry). I guess spamhalter would still miss some messages that had been missed by Mail Foundry. The number coming through at present are manageable by multiple-forwarding. If things get a lot worse I'll consider adding spamhalter, but I would probably be complaining about Mail Foundry before then.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Got to the directory containing the progam and run pconfig.exe.  Reset the HOME and new mail directory spec to the correct drive letter and it should worlk.

The password and relays had to be reset in GoDaddy.

Hello,

apart from wanting to see my name and message on this forum, I wanted to say thanks and congratulations to David Harris for making such a great program (fast, light, and lots of useful finetuning possibilities) and for providing it for free! 
Early year's message on pmail site on halting development at first gave me a 'this world ain't getting any better..' -feeling, but hopefully he has found the funds, and fresh motivation to keep on trucking.

Thanks again!!!
polygon

PS please keep it free?

Here is what worked for me: Tools/Internet options/Edit/Timeout

by default it is 15 seconds. Increase it to 150. It worked for me. 

Thomas, I know that the entry is correct, I have used this for some of

my software.  I am a Product Manager for a couple of software products

and have seen this with one of them.  I never thought about it in

relation to this problem.  I'm sure that you are running 4.51 also.  My

setup is basically the same.  Do you have the same parameters in both

machines, or only on the workstation?  I have not studied the effects

other than doing it on the workstation that I am running PMail on, not

the "server".  What settings did you do on which machine?  I am also

using Popfile and ClamAV for Mercury on the server side.

I'm running the oplocks on the workstation only here and I've just disabled the oplocks.  Checkout for my settings.  Everything works normally for me with disabled.  I did get a real slowdown when I moved to SP3 on the server and stayed at SP2 on the workstation but that went away when it went to SP3. 

I'm also running the Netware Client 32 since I'm also connecting to a Novell v3.2 system via bindery but I'm not all that sure this means anything in the scheme of things.

Thank you for your solution--the problem is solved.

Actually, I had plugged an Epson PictureMate in one time and Vista had used its own drivers and set it up as the default printer. This also explains why the HP kept starting up with a page size of 4 x 6. . .   Setting the HP as the default printer solved the problem. Thanks again!

There is nothing mystical about 2Gb limit. It is the maximum positive number that can be held in a 32 bit integer.    Until you migrate to Windows Vista 64 bit operating system the limit is a hardware architectural limit.

Martin

Hello!

I saw a similar behaviour in the past for most of my folders, and I still do for a few of them.

Until some weeks ago, compressing my folders took me a long a time (at least, it seemed to me a long time because compressing even a relatively small folder could take 40 seconds or more). Then, I had to buy a new harddrive, re-install Windows and all programs, and moving a data files to the new harddrive. Having finished that, I saw that compressing a Pegasus Mail folder was much faster than before; the new harddrive seems to accelerate almost all disk-related activities - not surprising against the background of the fact that my old harddrive was eight years old and the "new" one is one year old.

Now, I still have some folders for which compressing takes longer than for other ones. Those folders have two things in common: compressing takes longer than for other folders, and displaying the message list takes longer when grouped views are chosen for that folder.
However, I do not know yet what causes the difference between the "slow" and the "fast" folders.

So all I can do is to ask two questions:
(a) Is your harddrive old? (A new harddrive might be faster for folder compressing and other disk access.)
(b) Do the folders that need much time for compressing use grouped views? If so, does listing the messages in grouped views take much time in those folders?

Under Tools > Options > General Settings > Advanced Settings, check the box for 'Deleted messages' folder persists between sessions'.

Oops, I did not see the answer above. Sorry for the duplication.

That did it.  Thanks much.

At this point there really isn't a way of doing this, sorry. You can get a lot of it going using filtering rules (rules on the new mail folder that move all messages into the IMAP folder, and by attaching a filtering rule set to the IMAP inbox), but you can't do away with the local mailbox altogether. Realistically, this is unlikely to become an option in future, either.

As far as I know, the only "pure" IMAP client out there is Mulberry, which may (if I understand correctly) no longer be a supported product. Pure IMAP is difficult for a great many reasons, and demand is not that great (the impetus for this type of mail being largely towards webmail these days).

Sorry I can't be of more assistance here.

Cheers!

-- David --

[quote user="Medievalist"]Software monocultures are extremely bad for their users...[/quote]

That's a dogmatic statement.  And in truth, it's doubtful whether this metaphor is of any particular help to us. As Marcus Ranum points out here--

http://www.ranum.com/security/computer_security/editorials/monoculture-hype/index.html 

--computers aren't biological entities and behave differently.  Besides, there is no monoculture (insofar as the term has any meaning outside biology, anyway) but a bewildering array of different configurations:

 [quote]My system isn't just Windows. My security is effected (and affected) by a bewildering combination of default settings, software patch levels, default firewall rules (I just plugged it in, honest!), browser settings, and antivirus signature sets. We're not in anything like danger of becoming a "monoculture" unless every system was running the same software load-out, security policy, antivirus product, and patch level. In spite of the dearest wishes of countless system administrators, that simply isn't going to happen! So, as much as I hate to say it, Sun's marketing people may have been right, "The network is the computer" - and the network sure as hell isn't going to become a "monoculture" unless Microsoft builds all the firewalls, all the routers, all the switches, all the web accellerators, all the SQL databases and establishes everyone's security, routing, DNS, and update policies.[/quote]

Really, this is a dubious metaphor that is only much good for MS-bashing. I don't say that as a fan of the company--I vastly prefer using Apple's products--but I dislike bad analogies. I think computer security is best approached as it is in itself rather than through metaphor.

Hi David,

found a solution, but it should be a temp solution only.  I tried to issue an usual signature file within Pegasus and checked the PMS file - hooray, there was a different coding of special characters, copied this into rquotes.r compiled - and it works.

Cheers

Uwe