I assume you start Pmail from an icon (or menu item) somewhere. Right-click the icon, select Properties and add -i username to the command line (whatever the username is). Do the same thing in your web browser, and the mailto function should work. Any other questions, look at the command line options in Pmail help.

Now I've done it!

After a somewhat spectaculair hardware failure, I had to reinstall Pegasus Mail (4.41, XP professional).

In stead of creating several IDs, I have created several USERS for the emailadresses I use. I did this in the admin account.

The result is that everything works fine, but I have to change users every time I want to check my email on the various accounts.

I have since then installed the IDs I need into one useraccount, but I still have to type in the username for this one remainig user.

It would seem the only option is to delete this remaining account as well and start over. But then I lose all messages I have received and sent using this account.

Another problem -that is probably related- is that I can no longer use 'mail us' buttons on websites because the mailto-function results in an error message about my mail application not being properly installed. I guess the mailto-function also has to sign in first. And it can't, ofcourse.

I would like to merge the remainig user account and the admin account, so I can just send emails and receive them.

Clues, anybody?

Cheers,

Arthur Swart

The Netherlands

Hello!

As far as your second problem is concerned, I think this may be solved easily (well, I hope so). Go to "Tools" | "Options" | "Incoming mail" | "Hyperlinks" and press the button "System mailer".
This is what the help says about that option: Normally when you install Pegasus Mail, the installation process will inform Windows that Pegasus Mail should be used as your default system mailer (the mail program that will be invoked whenever you click a "Mailto" link in a web page). If this setting is lost (perhaps because another mail program overwrites it) you can always re-establish it by clicking the System mailer button in the the Default system mail program group on this preferences page. Does that help?

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Some other thoughts:

(a) If you want to start a certain user-account defined in Pegasus Mail, you simply add the respective commandline option to the commandline that you usually use to start Pegasus Mail. For example, if the user "example1" is to be started, the commandline may look like c:\pmail\winpm-32.exe -i example1 -id private. Obviously, you have to adapt it to the path of the directory in which "winpm-32.exe" is placed.
The switch -i example1 makes Pegasus Mail start with user "example1". The switch "-id private" opens the identity "private" (in user "example1"); this is useful if you have defined several identites in Pegasus Mail and want to start a certain identity automatically when opening Pegasus Mail.

(b) If you want to merge two users, you cannot do so automatically, but you can manually. The main problem is how to transfer the e-mail messages from one user to the other.

An example: you have users "admin" and "example1", and you want to transfer example1's messages to admin's account. Open user admin, and go to "Folders" | "Add mailbox to list" - enter the username whose messages you want to transfer (do not forget to choose "Username") and a descriptive name, something like "example1's messages". Having pressed "OK", you see that admin's folder list now lists a mailbox entry named "example1's messages" as well, containing all of example1's folders. You do not see the whole folder structure (the trays are missing), but you see all folders listed there.
You can copy messages from example's folders to admin's folders. Of course, you can add some new folders to user admin before copying.

(c) Do you have any addressbooks, distribution lists or other files that you want to transfer from one user to another one? You can move the respective files outside of Pegasus Mail from one user's mailbox directory to the other user's mailbox directory.
You find the mailbox directory in "Help" | "About Pegasus Mail" | "Info" where you find an entry about "Home mailbox location". This is the mailbox directory I have just mentioned. Given that you have a more or less usual Pegasus Mail installation, the "Home mailbox location" also contains one user's addressbooks (an addressbook consists of both a *.pmr- and a *.pm!-file), distribution lists (a distribution list is a *.pml-file), templates (pm5- and pm6-files).
If you follow that advice, do so when Pegasus Mail is not running.
 
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I hope this helps. If you have any more questions, just ask again.

Hello Thomas,

Thanks, I got the mailto function working again. It was a real pain, so kuddos for that.

Merging the accounts doesn't seem to work out, I still have to enter a username before I can open either account. I used to be able to just start PM and get going. But it's not as bad as it was anymore, at least I do not receive private emails while working with my business account. So I guess I'll just leave it the way it is. But thanks for the help.

Cheers,

Arthur