Thank YOU David and Nighthawk.  Your solution cleared the problem.  He was trying to clear spam in the wrong folder.

Cliffp 

Using Pegasus 4.41.  "older friend" has problem - upon closing Pegasus

any mail left in the new mail folder automatically goes to the delete folder

where it can be found upon opening program again.  I do not have this problem

and he has used the exact same options in his program as I have. I can leave

new mail in the new mail folder as long as I wish and it deletes only when so

selected.  Can someone tell me what to do to fix this.  Thanks....

Cliffp 

Have you accidently attached a close folder filting rule set to the new mail folder?

Go into Tools|Options, and select the "Basic Settings" page. Make sure that "Allow read messages to stay in the new mail folder" is checked.

If this button is already checked, then look at his filtering rules for when the new mail folder closes - Tools | Mail filtering rules | Edit new mail filtering rules | Rules applied when folder is closed. He almost certainly has a rule there that is doing this.

Cheers!

-- David --