I found these out (not sure if this might help others);

When I installed a new version of Pegasus in Windows 8 sometimes "PMAIL" installed by itself and sometimes both "PMAIL" and "Admin PMAIL" are installed.

When both are installed, there seems to be problems with copying old files and setting up POP3 and SMTP.  

When PMAIL (only)  is install, the path is; C:\PMAIL\MAIL\ADMIN

I was able to setup  POP3 and SMTP and copy backup .pmm/.pmi files in the "MAIL" directly and it worked.

All is working now but there seems to be something with the directory that Pegasus is installed in and also the ADMIN component of the installation.

Thanks all!

Problem solved! 

General follow up....I have since downgraded back to v.4.63 and all is fine again.  I can easily compose a new email while downloads are in progress; or while Pegasus is checking for new mail, I can still open and close or delete messages.  Something in v.4.7 is preventing that from happening.

 D-mon

Never mind... back to the delays.  It did seem to help for a few hours if that's a clue... 

Thank you Caisson and Bfluet.... I got the issue resolved.  I reinstalled Pegasus on the Windows 8 machine again and did the set up using the same POP and SMTP settings and it worked.

 I believe it was an installation issue. Cant say for sure but something to do with the fact that there was no "Pmail admin" installed this time. There seem to be some "rights" issue. It could also be some corrupt files during installation.

Thanks. 

Hi

I think you are misunderstanding me. The line (in the Distribution List) contained the following (although I have anonymized the name):

 "Name N. Name" <xxx@.yyyy.com>

 What you probably can't see here is the space character at the front of the line!

And that space character made Pegasus ignore that email address!

Ostensibly the problem is with your username and/or password, however you can also try taking out CRAM-MD5 by checking that box in the security tab.

Do something with a Quick action.

e.g.,
Create a general rule set to:
Always 'Set colour to 'Bright/Dark red'
Always Copy to 'Some Folder'

Define a Quick action to:
Apply a set of filtering rules to the message
(using the above general rule set).

Select the desired messages and press the Ctrl+#
to both colour and copy the messages.

The server definitions might not be properly set.

Can you receive mail?

Enable session logs to get a better idea of whats happening (Tools | Internet options | Create internet session logs)

Read the associated help files before you do so.

Pegasus Mail is an extremely powerful and flexible email client but not one that is "fun" like what you are looking for.  No smileys/emoticons, no sounds, no stationary.  Available fonts are the system fonts.

Sure I can delete temp files by myself and I can set us some task to delete such files on schedule as well.

But I am afraid you are missing the point. I suspect that handling of temp files might be broken  in PM4.7 (at least for IMAP folders) that's why I think that should be addressed or overhauled in next ver. 

Thank you, Brian.

I did as you said and it worked. Both the main window and the child i.e. an opened email. For a long while I had been maximising that as well and thought that's the way it had to be.

 So I'm very grateful to you. 

Hi

We use Mercury/32 V4.74 and Pegasus Mail V4.70. Mercury is installed on a Dell server running Windows Storage Server Standard 2008 (64bit). This server is a file server and hosts 99% of our data. Pegasus Mail is installed on the same server and the account folders are located as subfolders beneath the ..\pmail directory.

The server is a member server in a Windows Active Directory domain. The domain clients access Pegasus Mail via a link to the installation on the server (i.e. Pegasus Mail is not installed on any of the client computers).

The server has been running at near capacity with memory etc so I am doubling the amount of RAM in the system from 6 to 12GB and am also going to team the Broadcom NIC's. At present just one NIC is used. I will be enabling a second NIC and teaming them for smart load balancing use.

Whilst researching this I have read that whilst the receiving and sending of data will benefit from more efficient routing of traffic across the NIC's, some applications may not work as well as when using just one NIC. This is because although the Broadcom Program takes the load off the CPU some applications that are CPU bound may actually suffer performance degradation in a smart load balancing setup.

My question is: has anyone implemented SLB using Broadcom's application on a server where Pegasus Mail is installed and where clients link to the central installation? Did you notice any performance hits - did Pegasus Mail behave poorly, did you see an improvement or did performance remain unchanged?

 Any insights etc gratefully received.

Thanks.

You can't.  Those fonts are some of the many fixed size fonts found throughout Pegasus Mail.  They are also found in the new mail header fields, the configuration screens, the addressbook, and probably other places that I can't think of right now.  Some folks choose to change the magnification, others reduce the resolution (my choice), and others use a magnification utility (most recently recommended is the Virtual Magnifying Glass: http://magnifier.sourceforge.net/).  There are numerous threads in the forum about small fonts on hi-res displays.

Thank you, caisson and bfluet. I've discovered that I can simply move the pmm and pmi files from the Mail\Admin folder in the 4.2 directory, and drop them in the Mail\Admin folder in the 4.7 directory and they show up in my folders list in 4.7 when I open it, complete with same name. I'm going to go with that for a little, and if I run into more trouble I'll check back. Thanks for the links, bfluet.

FWIW, the lists of available dictionaries in the pull down of the spell checker is created from the available .v5dict files.  In my tests, removing a .v5dict file from the \DICTS subdirectory removes that dictionary from the pull down list.  Taking that a step further, I modified the content in a .v5dict file so that the entry for the dic and the aff file was invalid.  This also caused that dictionary to not appear in the pull down list. 

Based on these test results I think it would be worthwhile to compare the content of the .v5dict file of the Spanish dictionary with the content of the other .v5dict files to see if you can identify anything that is making them invalid.

The dictionary pull down list appears to be created during Pegasus Mail start up because changes made to the .v5dict files while Pegasus Mail was running were not seen until after it was restarted.  It is probably a good idea to work on the .v5dict files with Pegasus Mail closed anyway.

bfluet, thank you so much for your quick response! I am something of a nerd so I'll probably get fairly proficient with it in time. As long as the doc isn't going to steer me wrong I'm good. I'll start a folder here in Firefox for Pmail links. I may also want to use it on Linux systems.

-C

Thank you Michael, that did the trick.

But I think there is an issue with Pmail when, as I did, install 2 versions in two different directories.

Maybe it is because the control panel of wine that the two installs aren't seen.

Also the version n° installed isn't shown.

If in a full windows situation version n° and two installs are shown, then it is indeed a problem with wine.

If in full Windows it is the same as in wine, then I suppose there is a problem in Pmail.

Anyway I am happy I can benefit from 4.7 with it's SSL support.

[quote user="irelam"]Hope that helps things along[/quote]

I certainly doesn't help the OP with the install crashing ... and I don't know a cure either: WINE issues have to be reported to the WINE developers since they even told me not to implement any IER workarounds which might have helped.

The old version had been functional, but the computer it was on was not - Win XP on a computer that would not take an upgrade.  We're now on 8.1, and with thanks to you and others I've reviewed eveerything I did, and the message folders are now all showing and the address folder is no longer garbled, so we're fine.  Thank you.