bfluet, I rarely find, even after about 30 years stating with BBS's, that the stating curve gets any easier.  Every Email software I have played with to date uses different terminology, for example for Connection Security and Authentication, and it was even worse when I was writing some VB.NET code to cover these same needs.    I have started "pulling" from two POP3 servers and created a couple of filters so that messages from each go into their own message folder.  Definitely a lot of trial and error in my case.  Now I will watch and be sure that I send Replies using the corresponding SMTP server for that Identity.  

You mention my use of a single mail folder on my LAN that I use with Thundbird and indicate I will have that same capability with Pegasus, possibly even better with its built-in record locking.  I will tackle that next because it is important to me.  Our method of operation right now (wife and I) is to keep Thunderbird running on one computer all day long, sticking our heads in the den to see if anything new has arrived. I however I spend much of my time working on the other computer and would love to be able to send email from it without having to shutdown the copy running on the other computer.  Hey, that computer is six feet away.   

Thanks for your thorough review of features which I will save and continue to review until I get up further on that curve. 

Struggling a bit with the new learning curve coming from Thunderbird.  Monitor several addresses (POP3 servers).  Typically use one From address but occasionally like to select another.  Is the preferred, possibly the only way to do this to use different "Identities" or have I not found the way to simply change the From: address while drafting an email?

Ed

Using Identities is probably the easiest way and then the use the Identity selector in the new mail composition window.

You will need to check " Add identity selector" in Tools| Options | Messages and replies.

 caisson -- Many thanks, suspected Identities might be the way but seemed "weak" when you had to plan aheas - something I often do not do.  The Identity Selector makes it work for me and suspect would have been a long time before I spotted.  Not good practice to change subject in a thread but is there a way to give to change the name of the Default tag in the identity drop down?    thanks again, Ed

No.

You can not rename the Default identity but you can specify which identity you want to start Pegasus Mail as.  To do this you would add the -ID command line option to your shortcut.  Your command line would look something like:  C:\PMAIL\Programs\winpm-32.exe -A -I User -ID Identity. 

Note:  The -I option specifies the User to start up as.  It is not applicable on a single user Pegasus Mail setup.  Check out Help > Commandline options for more info.

Thanks guys, disappointed - will just have to think and remember, not my strong points.   Presently setup is for single user.  Will have to read up on muli-user for me, myself and I.  Moving from Thunderbird which displayed a drop down listbox clearly identifying the From address and also permitted me to access a single email database from any computer on my small home LAN.  To avoid data corruption without record locking the program could not be started on a computer if already running on another.

I don't think it is as hard as you are expecting it to be.  It's just different.  Plenty of us pull from multiple POP3 mailboxes.  I think the keys are to use the commandline switch to start as the identity you use most, filter message from each POP3 mailbox to a specific folder, and associate an identity with each of those folders if needed.  After that, each time you reply you just look at the identity selector to confirm you are sending as the correct identity.  Similar in process to selecting from a pull down menu.  It won't take long before that Default identity becomes invisible (you get so used to seeing it but not using it that you eventually stop seeing it).

As for multiple users, from what you have said I don't believe multiple users would be of any benefit because you want flexibility in who you send as.  That would require multiple identities inside of each user configuration.

FWIW, at the office I am two users, one with 12 identities that pulls from 4 POP3 accounts (Mercury handles the pulling there).  At home I have 5 identities and pull from 3 POP3

accounts. 

Pegasus Mail is extremely flexible.  A single install can be run by multiple PCs on the LAN or as multiple instances on the same PC (think multiple Pegasus Mail users).  Alternatively, Pegasus Mail could be installed on each PCs on the LAN but share the same mail store, something you made reference to.  Pegasus Mail protects data by creating a lock

file that causes a warning to be displayed if an attempt to access a locked mailbox is made by another instance.  Some Pegasus Mail capabilities that come to mind are multiple users, multiple identities, multiple POP3 hosts, multiple SMTP hosts, extensive filtering, selective downloading, IMAP, autoreplies, signatures, glossary entries, message templates.  There are plenty more.