Thanks Joerg for your detailed explanation of what I am trying to achieve.

My apologies for the delay in replying but I have been laid up for the last few weeks with a nasty flu bug.

 Happy New Year

 Chris 

Is there a way to duplicate emails sent to Pegasus to my gmail account, please?

At the moment, I have set my emails so that when my laptop (where my Pegasus emails are received) is switched off (or Pegasus is not running on it), all emails are also sent to my Gmail account (although I cannot now remember how I set this up).  This means I can check emails on my iPad when my laptop is switched off but also have them on my laptop when I next switch it on.

What I would like to do now is to have all emails that are sent to Pegasus to also be sent to my Gmail account, not just when my laptop is switched off.  The reason for this is that I have just bought my first smart phone and want to be able to check my emails whilst out and about, but still have them sent to Pegasus, that I also use as my archive and filing system for all my emails.

Thanks for any help and advice

Chris  

Use Pegasus Mail on your laptop to download and archive messages but leave them on the server.  Access the server from your iPad and smart phone via IMAP.  No need for the gmail account.

Alternative (if possible), set up forwarding from the host to the gmail account and access that account from your iPad and smart phone.

Thanks Brian. 

I don't want to use leaving emails on the server option as each time I download emails in Pegasus, it downloads previous ones again! 

I wish I could remember how I set things up for emails to be copied and sent to my gmail account when Pegasus isn't running, but at the same time leaving them on the server so I can download them when I next run Pegasus.  My email address is <chris@g4bue.com> and I see in the settings of my ISP, I have emails sent to <test@g4bue.com> being forwarded to <gc4bue@gmail.com>, which is my Gmail account.

The <test@g4bue.com> are the emails created when Pegasus isn't running to be copied to Gmail, but I cannot remember what I did to create the <test@g4bue.com> emails in the first place!

 Regards

 Chris

Pegasus Mail should be keeping track of downloaded messages and not downloading them again.  Is the setting to download only unread mail enabled?  It's in the Download controls tab of the POP3 host configuration.

As for the forwards, that's not something Pegasus Mail is capable of when it's not running so look for a third party app or a forwarding option on the host.  Whatever is doing it might be adding a header so consider looking at the complete headers of one of these messages for a clue.  You might need to use the gmail web interface to access one of these messages then use the "Show original" option to see all the headers.

Thanks again Brian.

If I set to only download unread emails, what happens to the read emails that are left on the server.  Are they eventually automatically deleted on the server?

 A good idea to look at the header of forwarded emails for a clue.  I will do that.

Chris 

Hi Chris,

From my opinion Pmail (or your Notebook) should not be the one which is responsible for forwarding e-mals to your gmail account because the forwarding process is depending on a running notebook.

I'm taking for granted that you have an ordinary e-mail account with a internet hoster and an additional e-mail account with Google (Gmail). I would login into the internet configuration of your standard mailbox. Every hoster is providing forward functionalities. Here I would adjust a forwarding rule for any incoming mails to your gmail account. Then you will receive all mails also directly on your smartphone without deleting anything on your standard mailbox. And the standard mailbox will be retrieved when starting your notebook.

The disadvantage is, that you have to handle all mails twice, directly at your smartphone via gmail and later on your notebook when starting Pmail.

You could also try to install the Mail App from your ISP on your smartphone. Then you could check, answer, delete mails directly on your smartphone but without downloading them. Means, all mails which you didn't delete remains in the standard mailbox at ISP and will be downloaded by Pmail during next ON time.

I'm using both methods simultaneously [:D] All incoming mails at my ISP are being forwarded to the gmail account of my wife. Simultaneously I will be informed by the ISP App on my own smartphone. So I could sort out mails. All mails which I keep in the mailbox will be downloaded later when I'm on my PC at home.

Cheers

Joerg