First I would like to thank the folks running this forum for their help in trying to get me on line. I tried previously a week ago to establish the account "poobah" but due to the nature of my Pmail system at the time, the temp password got lost. I finally gave up and started this account.
The difficulty began when I attempted to install the new version. The installation process noticed the presence of the early version and said it would keep my old settings etc so I chose "update". The result was that all my old emails (5 years or more) and address books vanished. All the old folders went away as well. Fortunately I had burned the "pmail" directory to a cd before I started so I was able to get back to the old version. Now I was happy to stay with the legacy version but I was aware that I had to move it from the "D:" drive to the "G:" drive for space reasons. So I carefully copied everything over taking care to alter the D's to G's in the pmail.ini and pmail.cfg files. I painstakingly went through every file on all my hard drives looking for the string pmail.anything and changed the drive letters. I even found a few references in the WIN98 registry. Now when I attempt to run the program I get the message "program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down". I now have a situation where I have a thousand emails safely secured on a CD but no way to read them.
Incidently I did buy the documentation for my existing copy of Pegasus years ago when you still sent out a CD with it on. I don't know what email address I used then but it was not this one. I have to use this address because the real one is accessed by Pmail, which of course isn't working right now. PLEASE help.
I would suggest a clean installation. And before doing so, I would manually create the mail directory and copy the mail folders (*.pmi and *.pmm files) and address folders (*.pm! and *.pmr files) from your CD to that directory, e.g. x:\pmail\mail or, if you have multiple users, x:\pmail\mail\username.
> The difficulty began when I attempted to install the new version.
> The installation process noticed the presence of the early version
> and said it would keep my old settings etc so I chose "update". The
> result was that all my old emails (5 years or more) and address
> books vanished.
Meaning that for some reason the program was not pointing to the correct mail directory.
1. Use Help | About Pegasus Mail | Info and note the mailboxes.
2. Search the hard drive for PMM and PMI files to locate the actual mail directories.
3. Run pconfig.exe and change the Standalone | Home and NEW mail directories to match the actual location. This will be in the form c:\pmail\mail\~8 when the mail directories are subdirectories of c:\pmail\mail.
> All the old folders went away as well. Fortunately I
> had burned the "pmail" directory to a cd before I started so I was
> able to get back to the old version. Now I was happy to stay with
> the legacy version but I was aware that I had to move it from the
> "D:" drive to the "G:" drive for space reasons. So I carefully
> copied everything over taking care to alter the D's to G's in the
> pmail.ini and pmail.cfg files.
How did you change the pmail.cfg file? If not via pconfig.exe then it's probably corrupted.
> I painstakingly went through every file on all my hard drives looking
> for the string pmail.anything and changed the drive letters. I even
> found a few references in the WIN98 registry. Now when I attempt to run
> the program I get the message "program has performed an illegal
> operation and will be shut down".
Sounds like you trashed the program. I would re-install over the current version on the G: drive and make sure that the HOME and NEW mail directory matched the current install. The basic structure is:
g:\pmail\programs the program
g:\pmail\mail the pmail.usr file
g:\pmail\mail\admin the default single user admin mailbox
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g:\pmail\mail\user the Multiuser mail directories
Well it took part of four days but I'm up and running. [:D] My thanks to Thomas and Stephan for their responses. Neither one by itself solved the problem. But what they had to say gave me a better understanding of the workings of Pmail. I'm still convinced that there is no "button click" procedure to move Pegusus to another drive and have all the existing folders/addresses/preferences move over. It would be totally wonderful if that existed. What I ended up doing was 1) have the entire old Pmail directory copied off to CD. (this was vital; I screwed up what follows at least three times). 2) removed from my system every reference to Pmail ever having existed. 3- A clean install of the new version (it did not offer to do an update) 4- there were different directory names in this new version; I learned where the folders etc should go and selectively copied them in from the CD. 5- Only then did I click on the Icon for Pegasus and voila !! everything was right where it belonged. This new drive is large enough to where I won't have to do this again. Consider this thread closed.
