Is there a reason why you have so many identities? Or put differently, are you aware of the possibility of adding multiple pop definitions to one identity? Perhaps you could go for one identity with, say, 36 (or fewer - there may be limit that I'm not aware of) pop definitions and one identity with one (or more) pop definitions, and leave the Checking for multiple identities option unticked. Or, of course, you could set up different identities each with their own specific (internet) settings. Alternatively, you might even consider setting up multiple users. Hope this helps.

 Edit: Guy, I just realised I copied your "multiple pop definitions assigned to one identity" suggestion. Sorry! Slight oversight on my part.

Hi All,

Done the mandatory searches and Help system and drawing a blank.

 I have a bunch of Identities all with different POP email accounts and I have the "When checking for mail, perform checks for all identities" checked which I mostly use at start up.

Sometimes I just need to check a single Identity I am expecting mail for. For example, a confirmation from a new website registration.

How do I go about just checking one Identity rather than sitting and watching it go through all Identities every time?

Thanks

I believe this should work for you.

Select the desired Identity from the Dropdown field
(I think it is in the default toolbar).
File (menu) > Selective mail download

PMail should then do like a STAT and TOP against that POP3 definition.
A summary of the mail available on the server will be displayed.
You can double-click a mail to view the Headers.
Use the buttons to select your options, then 'Make it so'.

See 'selective download' in Help and or the PDF Manual.

Thanks Guy, a bit clunky and time consuming, but that works.

I have been used to "Get Mail," "Get All mail," buttons. [:)]

You could also temporarily turn off the "When checking...check all identities" setting

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You could also temporarily turn off the "When checking...check all identities" setting

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User can also use scheduling, Options, Internet options, Receiving, select, Edit  as per Help:

Scheduling

Check no more frequently than once every x minutes  This control allows you to have some of your definitions checked more or less frequently than others. If you enter a non-zero value here, then Pegasus Mail will only check this definition at most once every x minutes, no matter how often you have set your polling period in the Receiving mail via the POP3 protocol  page of the Internet Options dialog. So, if you have a relatively unimportant mailbox somewhere that you only want to check at most once per hour, you would enter 60 here: even if Pegasus Mail is checking your other POP3 definitions every minute, this definition will only be checked once per hour. 

[quote user="bfluet"]You could also temporarily turn off the "When checking...check all identities" setting[/quote]

 [:)] Kidding, right? You mean go through 37 Identities and turn off that check box for 36 of them for just one day or worse a few hours.

Thanks, but I will skip that one. [:)]

[quote user="Jerry Wise"]User can also use scheduling, Options, Internet options, Receiving, select, Edit  as per Help:[/quote]

 Jerry, don't mean to be ungrateful for the help, but see my reply to Brian, scheduling changes would be that and 10-times worse.

I just joined another forum and had to wait for a confirmation email to click a link back to the forum site to validate my email address. I had to sit through several 37 x Check all, until the email arrived.

All I wanted to do was check that one Identity today and then probably not do something like that again for weeks.

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[quote user="bfluet"]You could also temporarily turn off the "When checking...check all identities" setting[/quote]

 [:)] Kidding, right? You mean go through 37 Identities and turn off that check box for 36 of them for just one day or worse a few hours.

Thanks, but I will skip that one. [:)] 

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Nope!  Not kidding!  Disabling the "...perform checks for all identities" setting in one identity means that when you check mail as that identity the other identities won't be checked.

Thanks Brian, but that then is plain weird. It is counter intuitive to disable one and then expect all the rest to not be scanned for emails. To my logical thinking, if that box is checked in ANY Identity, then during a "check all" event, anything with that box checked, gets scanned.

Some years back when I was looking for a new email client after some bad issues with v5 Thunderbird, I began writing my own client. During that period I was told about Opera and gave it a try. I liked it so I stopped development and adopted Opera.

All was good until recently when Opera trashed the 3000+ email database with no means of recovery other than my back ups. Even then there was no way to recover and update with emails since the trashing and the repair.

Looks like it is time to get back to the development bench as there seems no word from David on v5. The more I deal with Pegasus, the weirder things seem as a cobbled together bunch of processes with a lot of confusing overlaps. Software should be working for us -- the human, not the other way around. David is right in thinking it needs a total re-write.

I am fast getting the impression this is like the joke about guy walking out of the Tailors shop. The punch line was "if they can fit a cripple like you for $15, then this must be a hell of a deal for a normal person like me." Tell me if you haven't heard the joke and I will elaborate.

In all my programming career, the human interface IS the critical guts of any program. I strived hard to instill this in to the programmers that worked for me and it was a never ending battle to get them to go back and make stuff right for the human at the keyboard. They all wanted to impress with the gee-whiz code and rush through the human stuff, but I never gave up.

I do not want alienate the goodly folk here by saying true, but unkind things about Pegasus as it is an OK email client and maybe v5 will be what this current version should be. But to this tired old mind, Pegasus was my last hope for a decent POP email client. Microsoft, Yahoo, Google et-al, and most ISPs are pushing for webmail accounts and thus the ability to scan email content for demographic stuff to sell. Time for me to warm the development chair seat. [:)]

I will hang with Pegasus as an email client until I get something usable built, so I may be back here occasionally asking for help to ease my confusion.

I suggested that "Selective mail download" procedure because
I do use that method, when assisting some clients, under similar
circumstances as you described.
Actually I start Pegasus in Offline Mode, determine the appropriate
Identity and POP3 definition, toggle Online Mode, and perform the
"Selective mail download", toggle back to Offline Mode.

Be aware that an Identity can have multiple POP3 definitions assigned.