You can just drag and drop... I do it all the time...

You can alos use the Control key to select files you wish to add from the select file window from the add attachment button and attachment tab.

Hello all !

A few years ago I suggested to manage Pegasus Mail and Mercury through a foundation. This model is widely used for some other softwares so I see no reason why it could not be for David Harris' products. So the idea is to create a foundation that will manage, develop and maintain versions of Pegasus Mail and Mercury. This way, even when David will "leave", his products will remain. That is a sad aspect of things but it is part of being human. Humans come and go, but softwares not necessarily do so.

To launch the foundation, a fund raising could be set with eventually a more or less detailed itemization of expenses. The amount of needed money could be represented by some sort of status bar directly on the official web site and the wikipédia page. By the way the Wikipédia foundation operates along similar lines. As for new features, the plans suggested above are not very efficient. Indeed, assume David spends a lot of time coding and testing and as a result offers a new version which has to be bought. Now suppose no one buys it, then David would have "wasted" his time and energy, and on top of that would have earned no money for his work. I think a more effeicient way to integrate new features would be to first standardized the process of selecting new features. One way to do it would in seven steps :

(.) step 01 : define a period of time during which every user can suggest a new feature (to ease forum research, a subforum should be created and strict rules regarding titles of threads and presentation of features should be designed) ;

(.) step 02 : thanks to the presentation rules of thread titles and thread bodies (features presentation and rationales) we assume a somehow automated process studies all the relevant threads and comes up with a list of a given number of features ;

(.) step 03 : define a period of time during which every user will be able to vote for one of the features ;

(.) step 04 : show on the official web site (and maybe the wikipedia page) which are the top 5 features (the number of features is decided by David so 5 is just to illustrate my point) and represent each with some sort of money bar ;

(.) step 05 : once a money bar of a particular feature is full, then a development bar takes place with an estimated time of coding completion ;

(.) step 06 : once the development bar is full, it is replaced by a tested bar ;

(.) step 07 : once all tested bars are full for all top 5 selected features, then a ew version of Pegasus Mail could be set into development.

This way, the selection and coding of the features is efficient, David earns some money for his work and everyone can enjoy a free version of Pegasus Mail. In my opinion, it is a win for everyone. Also, a permanent donation bar could be visible on the web site and the wikipedia page. This way, David will only need to modify the "donation goal" in order to ask for more money. The dude being rather uncomfortable about that matter, this could be a way for him to overcome this difficulty.

I have to say that I already suggested those ideas to David but so far did not receive any answer. Those ideas could be taken into account in designing a crowdfunding project. As an example, this has been successfull for the following project : Eternity. It is an isometric RPG which raised $3,986,929. That said, there is only one way to know if this could be also a success for Pegasus Mail and Mercury : try it ! I hope those suggestions will be found interesting by the community and by David.

Sheers !

Whiskyfizz.

Thanks for clarification....

I would like to see the list of recently used addresses LONGER !
Or user length selectable.  I use it near exclusively & having it to be
substantially longer would be my preference.  That way older addresses
don't drop off the list so quick.

Would like to be able to delete a message from the in-box WITHOUT having to wait for it to display.

The "do you really want to" response should be displayed, requiring another delete to complete the action.

Addition to original above:

Have discovered that by turning off preview option I can immediately delete a message.  Problem with this is that the majority of messages received are ones that I do not wish to delete.  Hence, the preview option is preferable. 

I guess what I'd really like to see is: If I hit the delete icon at any time, the display function would abort, and the option to resume the display or proceed to delete would be shown.

When you get an error that an e-mail address is already registered, it tells you so and the folder;
 but it should also tell you the Filing Tray it is inside of !

Mr. David Harris,

In the "About this folder" message and the send date should be using the date of the install upon the New User's system not when that message was created, "Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:46:43 +1200" it will then appear to be freshly sent even though provided by your installation software.  Plus they then have a record as to when they started using PMail.

Have noted when doing a "SAM HALTER" train as SPAM for more than one message my PMail drops out, turns grey and is shown as 'Not Responding' for a short.  If more like maybe 3 to as many as you are wanting to train as SPAM PMail goes grey and 'Not Responding.'   The more messages the longer it will take before you may use PMail again.

 This also happens when those messages are moved to a SPAM folder, you may choose to rename so it is not at the very top area of the "Folders" panel.  Also if you are deleting multiple messages, have only noticed from the "In Box" and "SPAM HALTER" folder so far, but; probably will also happen for other Folders when multiple messages are marked for deletion.

When a message is transferred to "DELETED" or "SPAM HALTER," from the "In Box" folder automatically be marked as "Read" or a check box in "Tools/Options" to give us the ability to select as automatic marking.

Guy,

Thank you for this reply, sorry it has taken me so long to get to this.  When logging in and clicking on this thread a strange box came up and could not click the back arrow, "User already logged in" with instructions to contact an administrator.  So I sent a message to the Feed Back crew from the bottom of that window.  Could not get back to this area so had to log in again by clicking the notification message received.

Will look into your suggestion when time will allow, have many problems to chase outside of home with friends having other issues.  That is my life as a 'troubleshooter' and analyst for any problem, just cannot deal with programming as I am not a programmer.  Journeyman Electronic Technician with over 65 years experience along with other fields of experience thrown in to the mix like pneumatics, hydraulics, electrical, mechanical, automobiles, plumbing, A/C, et ceteras.  

 Maybe this would be mostly for myself, but; if another would like to see this then maybe they can add to it for other opinions.

As an extra, after thought, why not give the user an option for that 'tattle-tale' message alerter to float around the boundary of the screen

instead of just leaving it in one place.  With so much being placed on

these screens especially a laptop it is/could be over some info you are

reading.  Give an option of display time of 0.5 sec. per position or

more, if you like my permission is granted.  Some of us 'Hide Status

BAR' and placing it there could also hide it or be over icons that may be filling

the status bar.

 Or maybe just have it move back and forth across the top of the screen as an eye catcher that mail has arrived that could also be added as an option under 'Tools/Options (Alt+F10)' and entered in the area for incoming mail.

Thank you Mr. Harris for this wonderful powerful client that is more flexible than a 'rubber band' and still evolving

List mode vs. Preview mode is a personal preference but I believe List mode would provide the functionality that you are looking for.  One of the ways to make List mode very  useable is to keep multiple folders open in appropriately sized windows on the Pegasus Mail desktop.  At a minimum keep the New Mail folder and the Folder list open but perhaps the Main folder as well.

The folders with special icons ( New, Deleted, Search) have the names hard coded, the others should be able to be renamed or replaced.

Will do, just not time enough in a day for me and my systems.  Have other duties as well and just pressed for time.  As one famous person once said:

 "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."
    - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

 "Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach."
     - Albert Einstein

Thank you for being my instructor/Teacher . . .

When moving mail to a Mail Box and there is a 'Filing tray' the high-lite moves to that FT when you click on the plus sign (+) to open to have access to the MBxs.  Then you need to move the high-lite back to the MB you are wanting to move mail from and to one that is under a FT.  I do not use the Filters to sort my mail to mail boxes until after I have read them, then some are deleted and not filed.  I use the Drag&Drop method.

When clicking the plus sign (+) on a FT to open a list of MBxs be such that the high-lite remain where you last were, which ever MB you were on at the time you needed to open a FT.

Can this be adjusted in the next version?

I came across an issue this week that surprised me. We have a new member of staff who started just a couple of weeks ago. She uses Preview mode to view her messages but sometimes double-clicks a folder to open it in its own window. She reported that her Main Folder was giving an error when closing Pegasus Mail - it was the usual issue that can be fixed by re-indexing. I was surprised because there is not a lot of mail in her Main Folder and this is something that usually only crops up after several months of usage.

When I looked at the list of open windows, her Main Folder had been opened several times. I'm pretty sure her issue was caused by making changes in one window while the others were still open, then later switching to a different Main Folder window and perhaps making other changes there.

In order to avoid this happening again is it possible to force the focus to switch to the window that is already open, rather than opening a second, third and fourth instance? Perhaps it might help prevent folder corruption.

Cheers!

[quote user="Rolf"]
There used to be a command line tool that could convert all of the messages in a folder to show "to: SENDER".
However, this was cumbersome (as it was command line driven), and I can't actually find the programme anymore
(anybody know where I can find it in the interim?).
[/quote]

Maybe this tool:

from Dragon Computer Consultancy
  Simple DOS program for use after converting messages from another
  mail program. Run it on a 'sent' messages folder and Pegasus will
  then see all the messages as a Copy to Self.
http://www.dragon-it.co.uk/link/pegasus?OpenDocument

 

Could we just merge the Internet options and main options settings windows? Just to make something simpler.

I think Thunderbird is just slowing down, even only doing bug fixes and critical updates users will still continue to use it. I guess when the time comes they would be looking for something in active development.