In Windows 7 it is also worth checking the directory permissions for any folders you create as often the user creating them does not have full control.  All users who will be logged on and using PMail will need at least read and write permissions in the folders where email is stored (in your case I believe you are planning to use C:\PMail\Mail....  It is worth making sure that all users have full control of this directory and all subdirectories and files.

Sorry if this isn't totally new. As earlier threads on this topic evolve, I understand less and less.

I am a stand alone user. I've been using Pegasus for personal email for almost 20 years. Over the years I've upgraded my Pegasus version. I have also installed Pegagus on all the computers I've used. I use Desktop Pro as my Windows Explorer interface. With each move and upgrade I've copied my mailbox files to the new environment without even a hiccup.

 I am now using Pegasus 4.63 on an aging Dell XPS laptop running on XP. In May I bought a Samsung Win 7 laptop which I ultimately returned for reasons having nothing to do with Pegasus. I followed the same steps I'd always followed when moving to a new computer (installing Pegasus and copying all the files under Pmail/Mail, including the config files, to Pmail/Mail), but while Pegasus loaded on the Win 7 computer, it did not show any a awareness of my mail. There are thousands of old emails. Loss of my old emails is beyond my ability to describe.

I recently bought a new Win 7 computer. I have learned from this forum that you can't install Pmail in C:/Program Files on a Win 7 computer. So, let's assume I install Pmail as C:/Pmail on the Win 7 computer. Let's also assume I create a mailbox on the Windows 7 machine with the same settings as are on my XP mailbox. Logically, to me anyway, I could copy all of the files at C:/Program Files/Pmail/Mail on my XP to C:/Pmail/Mail, OTHER THAN THE CONFIGURATION FILES, on the Win 7 computer. If that's right, which are the configuration files I shouldn't copy from the XP computer to the Win 7 computer.

In the alternative, since I have a full backup of Pmail, I could uninstall Pmail from my XP and reinstall it at C:/Pmail and configure a new mailbox, as I would as described in the prior paragraph. I would then copy my backup of C:/Program Files/Pmail/Mail, OTHER THAN THE CONFIGURATION FILES, to C:/Pmail/Mail on my XP. The last step would be to copy the files at C:/Pmail/Mail on the XP to C:/Pmail/Mail on the Win 7 computer.

 Does any of that make sense? Do you have a recommendation on what to do?

Sorry for too many words.

 Barry Levinsky

Look at my thread as I did run into Windows 7 issues as well.

In short, I installed PMAIL in C:\pmail but without defining a pre-configured mail box.

In your case do so also, copy your mail data c:\program files\pmail\mail on XP to W7 in c:\pmail\mail. On the first run of pmail you will be asked to set the path to your mail which is then c:\pmail\mail and you mail, as well as your user(s)  should be found.

Good luck

This will only work if the XP installation was in C:\PMAIL because some of the configuration files contain paths.

My best success was moving my XP install from C:\PROGRAM FILES\PMAIL to C:\PMAIL and then copying the mailbox content to my Win7 install.  If the XP machine is functioning you can copy the contents of C:\PROGRAM FILES\PMAIL to C:\PMAIL then run pconfig.exe from the C:\PMAIL location and set the mailbox location (assume C:\PMAIL\MAIL).  Run Pegasus Mail from C:\MAIL and make sure everything works.  Now you can copy mailbox contents to the Win7 installations. 

Again, the paths to Win7 installation and mailboxes must the same as on the XP machine for this to work.  Otherwise you should selectively move files from old to new mailbox folders avoiding copying over any configuration files.