[quote user="Phil"]...those mail will be available for an IMAP connection from the world, you'll just have to setup your router.[/quote]

What's this now?  I'd like to hear some more please.

Regards

Stuzz

I mainly use Pegasus Mail on my desktop (Win 7) machine.  Recently I was traveling with a laptop; at the same time my wife needed to use Pegasus at home (my account).  The problem was that Pegasus would download incoming mail from my mail server to my desktop machine, so I couldn't read it on the server using my laptop.  I'm looking for a solution that will let me (even minimally) be able to use Pegasus remotely, without screwing up the main desktop installation (that's where I want all my mail to be eventually).

I thought perhaps there is a way to do it with a VPN, so my laptop could see the Pegasus Mail files that reside on my desktop machine.  It seems if I could somehow run Pegasus on my laptop in a kind of 'read only' mode, I'd be able to see critical incoming messages.  I could probably live with the problem of sending email from my laptop, and not having automatic local copies, e.g., by cc'ing myself.

In short, I'd like there to be one definitive, home installation, with some way of using Pegasus on remote machines, without corrupting the main installation.  Obviously the more seamless this could be the better, but even a solution that requires a ad hoc workarounds would be OK.  (I did search the fora for "VPN", etc., and found nothing).  I can't believe I'm the first person to have this problem.

I really know nothing about Mercury - my ISP essentially provides POP3 and SMTP services, which Pegasus uses directly.  If it would be part of a solution I'd have to figure out how to integrate it with the ISP; perhaps as a 'local' mail server in between the ISP and Pegasus.  If it solves the above problem that'd be great - a quick perusal of the documentation didn't turn that up, though. 

What you are trying to accomplish is a challenge.  My approach was to have Pegasus mail configured on my laptop to not delete mail on the server.  I then made sure to have Pegasus Mail do a download on my laptop before I started Pegasus Mail on my desktop which downloads again then deletes.  It was PITA and I gave up on it.  Now when I travel I access new mail on my ISP's server via webmail.  Only Pegasus Mail on the desktop does download & deletes and it stays off until I get home.  This would be a challenge if your wife routinely needs access to your new mail as she would also need to use webmail access.  Drawbacks include no message history on the laptop, the requirement for a second addressbook/contact list of of some kind on the laptop, and the need to bcc yourself on any responses that you needed a copy of.

It is a shame that your ISP does not offer IMAP access (sounds like my Time Warner RR account).  IMAP would allow you to leave messages on the server and access them from whatever device is convenient.  This is what Mercury would bring to the table.  You could keep the same email addresses and let Mercury POP the messages off your ISP's server.  It would store them in local mailboxes which Pegasus Mail could access directly when on the LAN or via IMAP when traveling.

This is what I use the Add mailbox to list function for, as well as some sort of Cloud solution. I have a Synology NAS at home and have installed CloudStation on my computer at work, on the laptop I use at my girlfriend's apartment and on my home PC. On each of the 'remote' machines, I've configured Pmail to move (filter, actually, but never mind that) mail from the new mail folder to a mail folder that I've created in my CloudStation folder. I can access that mail wherever I am using the Add mailbox to list function, pointing Pmail to the mail folder that resides in my CloudStation folder. Hope this helps.

When I've tried to set Pegasus to "not delete mail on the server", admittedly something I haven't tried recently, it would keep re-downloading all messages there - which would get cumbersome.  If there were a way to "just download messages I haven't seen", which would use some local (to the laptop) state info, things could work very well - both the home and mobile machines could read incoming mail that hadn't been read *on that machine*, without affecting the state for the other machine.  (Returning home, I could then download everything and manage it as needed - this would be extra work, but I'd gladly have that option).

I'll look into IMAP.  I know I did once before, trying to arrange to get email from my town's server (I'm on the board of finance), and couldn't get Pegasus to work, but that *was* years ago.

Enable the "Download only unread mail..." setting in the Download controls tab of the POP3 host configuration(s).

You can instal Mercury32 on your home computer and then connect to it from everywhere to read your mails using an IMAP connection.

Your Mercury server will download your mails from your ISP using a POP3 connection, those mails will be readable from any computer connected to your home lan (just tell Pegasus Mail the location of your mail directory, ie \\server\share\path), those mail will be available for an IMAP connection from the world, you'll just have to setup your router.

Regards