A bit of a life-saver to see this solution.

The same problem occured for me when I inadvertently pulled a Pegasus open window from my notebook to the attached external monitor (using 'extended monitor setting). I did as TopFive suggested... and it worked a treat!

Thanks (-:

I'm running Pmail with Windows 7. Since upgrading to the v 4.5.2 version of Pmail, I've had no problems whatsoever, until a few minutes ago. The program had just finished downloading mail from my POP server when the Pmail desktop disappeared.

Now when I start the Pmail program, I get the splash screen, which details the process of starting the app. When that's done, I get... nothing. No Pmail desktop at all. The app still shows up in my task bar, as if it were running without a problem. But when I click on it (or alt-tab to the program), I still get nothing. Task manager shows Pmail as running, too. 

I've tried moving DESKTOP.PM0 to another folder, then restarting -- no change. Same with moving all the CNM files to a new program.

I've been using Pmail since 1993 and have never seen this problem before. Can anybody offer any suggestions? TIA!

Sounds like a bad message in your inbox.   I suggest you use Windows Explorer to remove any files in your inbox that have a filetype of .CNM and put them in some other directory like c:\temp. Then restart Pegasus Mail. If it comes up normally, one of the files you removed is the problem. Try moving messages back to your inbox one at a time until the crash occurs again (thats the bad message which should be deleted)  then copy back any other messages to your inbox, and enjoy !!    

Martin

Figured it out, and I'm posting the solution here in case anyone else ever has the same problem.

It turns out the PMAIL.INI file had somehow had a strange application window location saved in it:

Application window rectangle              = -32000 -32000 160 38

I'm not sure what kind of monitor I'd have to have for that window to actually appear, but evidently Pmail didn't have a problem with it starting in such a strange position. I did a fresh install of the program, then compared the PMAIL.INI files, and found that the new one had this for that same line:

Application window rectangle              = 110 32 1056 676

Obviously, a top left corner position of 110/32 is more likely to show up on a monitor than one of -32000/-32000. I put my actual installation of Pmail back in place and changed only that one line in PMAIL.INI to the values found in the fresh install version, then restarted the program. Voila! Everything is back in order. Whew!