Thanks for considering my problem. The cause of the problem turned out to be rather prosaic. The Options window for the problematic user had a reduced size. As such it did not show the controls at the bottom, in particular the OK button. And without OK no change... For the other user Options did show the controls, as I finally noticed.

Hello,

I have a question. Lately I noticed that I cannot find the menu entry "switch users" (I hope this is the right  english name, as I use the german version). If I remember

well, it was in the "File" drop-down. Unfortunately I haven't used that feature in a long time and due to updates, I have no idea when it dissapeared. Maybe in the newer

versions it is also a setting which I missed. 

I would like to use it again, as I got some new mails, which use POP now after only web-service was allowed and I do not want to exit pmail every time I change the mailbox.

I see I can still add the other mailboxes to my mailbox directories, but unfortunately there I can read just the entries in the other mailboxes, but cannot download messages 

from the server. 

Hints would be appreciated!

Thanks, Peter

> I have a question. Lately I noticed that I cannot find the menu entry
> "switch users" (I hope this is the right  english name, as I use the
> german version). If I remember

The File | Change user was removed since it caused Pegasus Mail to crash in many instances.  The best way to perform this function now is to run separate instances of Pegasus Mail.

1.  Right click on the WinPMail shortcut and select "Properties".

2.  Select the "Shortcut" tab.

3.  Edit the "Target line" to add the commandline option.

A commandline option will generally look like the following:

c:\pmail\winpm-32.exe -i thomas -ms

or when using long directory names

"c:\Program Files\pmail\winpm-32.exe" -i thomas -ms

You create a shortcut for each user you use quite often and one without the -I <username>.  Now all you have to do is hit the proper shortcut to have any user you want opened and running.

You can also just use "Add mailbox to list" to point at these other accounts and then associate an identity with each folder in the accounts so that forwards and replies will come from the correct user.

[quote user="PeBi"]I see I can still add the other mailboxes to my mailbox directories, but unfortunately there I can read just the entries in the other mailboxes, but cannot download messages from the server.[/quote]

Think about using identities if you just want to use different email accounts with one instance of Pegasus Mail, there's no need to set up different users for doing so.

I have also a problem with multiple users.

I can select each user and access his data, but I can change Options / Basic settings (personal name) etc for one user only. When I change it for the others the changes disappear. (The program operates as standalone and starts with the -A option.)

Please post copy of the display of Help, About, Info button display for reference so we can see more information and exact locations and version information and location of the winpm-32 executables on drive.

This is the required info: thanks for trying to help!

 1) I cannot change options for this user:

WinPMail version: Version 4.63 (Win32), Dec 22 2011, build ID 325
Language resources: Standard UK English resource set
Extension Manager version: 1.14
Operating mode: Standalone
User name and ID: vfg, 0
Windows version: 6.1
Windows flag word: 0
WINPMAIL.EXE directory: D:\progs\PMail\Programs
Home mailbox location: D:\PROGS\PMAIL\MAIL\vfg
New mailbox location: D:\PROGS\PMAIL\MAIL\vfg
TMP environment variable: C:\Users\vf\AppData\Local\Temp
TEMP environment variable: C:\Users\vf\AppData\Local\Temp
LAN-based SMTP support: N, N, N
NetWare MHS support: N, N, N
Built-in TCP/IP support: Enabled
  - WINSOCK version: WinSock 2.0
  - WINSOCK path: C:\Windows\system32\WSOCK32.DLL
Commandline: -A
Active -Z options: 32768
PMR variable: (None)
PML variable: (None)
MAI variable: (None)
NB variable: (None)
Autofiltering folders: 0 (0 active, 0 inactive)
Last new mail count: 22
Message size soft limit: 0 bytes
Message size hard limit: 0 bytes
Attachment size soft limit: 0 bytes
Attachment size hard limit: 0 bytes

2) For this user I can change the options:

WinPMail version: Version 4.63 (Win32), Dec 22 2011, build ID 325
Language resources: Standard UK English resource set
Extension Manager version: 1.14
Operating mode: Standalone
User name and ID: vfi, 0
Windows version: 6.1
Windows flag word: 0
WINPMAIL.EXE directory: D:\progs\PMail\Programs
Home mailbox location: D:\PROGS\PMAIL\MAIL\vfi
New mailbox location: D:\PROGS\PMAIL\MAIL\vfi
TMP environment variable: C:\Users\vf\AppData\Local\Temp
TEMP environment variable: C:\Users\vf\AppData\Local\Temp
LAN-based SMTP support: N, N, N
NetWare MHS support: N, N, N
Built-in TCP/IP support: Enabled
  - WINSOCK version: (Not loaded)
  - WINSOCK path: C:\Windows\system32\WSOCK32.DLL
Commandline: -A
Active -Z options: 32768
PMR variable: (None)
PML variable: (None)
MAI variable: (None)
NB variable: (None)
Autofiltering folders: 0 (0 active, 0 inactive)
Last new mail count: 0
Message size soft limit: 0 bytes
Message size hard limit: 0 bytes
Attachment size soft limit: 0 bytes
Attachment size hard limit: 0 bytes

I think part of the problem is with the commandline used to start both the first and the second username. I would expect to see something like

-roam -a -i vfa   on one and maybe

-roam -a -i vfi -ms on the second used to start as that username. All subsequent must have the -ms on command line to run multiple instances. See Help menu and commandline information.

Are you starting using Start meu, Command prompt or have you configure properties for two different desktop icons for those users?