pegasus mail?

[mike ring]

I've been having terrible trouble with T/bird refusing to connect (though
now it has just as mysteriously decided to work again, but in the interim I
started using pegasus, and it seemed very good.

As the t/bird forums seemed incomprehensible, and were no help at all, I
found other people with the same trouble, joined in the thread, but the
whole thread seemed to vanish - do they have a bermuda triangle for awkward
questions? any how I felt as lost and friendless as when I was wandering in
linux land, I'm minded to stay with pegasus.

I still need to sort out the mess of accounts and mailboxes I created in
the troubles, and can't even access some of my mailboxes.

But is Pegasus going anywhere, or is the world dropping it? I don't want
to commit to vanishing software.

Any help, please

mike

 

[Gabriele Neukam]

On that special day, mike ring, ([email protected])
said...

But is Pegasus going anywhere, or is the world dropping it? I don't want
to commit to vanishing software.

I think it will stay around for a while, as it has been there for at
least ten years.


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)

 

[Mike]

But is Pegasus going anywhere, or is the world dropping it? I don't want
to commit to vanishing software.

Pegasus is a great freebie mail program. I've used it for at least the past
eight years, and it has been regularly updated and improved. A newer
version is currently being developed. So, AFAIK, it's still definitely
going somewhere, and makes a far better alternative to M$ Lookout.

Mike

 

[Shel]

But is Pegasus going anywhere, or is the world dropping it?

There are a few groups about it. I subscribe to
comp.mail.pegasus-mail.ms-windows

 

[J44xm]

["Mike"; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:19:36 GMT]

Pegasus is a great freebie mail program. I've used it for at least the
past eight years, and it has been regularly updated and improved. A
newer version is currently being developed. So, AFAIK, it's still
definitely going somewhere, and makes a far better alternative to M$
Lookout.

I second everything.

 

[Mike Dee]

["Mike"; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:19:36 GMT]

Pegasus is a great freebie mail program.

I second everything.

I'll third that. Pegasus is excellent.

 

[Aaron]

["Mike"; Sat, 15 Jan 2005 18:19:36 GMT]

Pegasus is a great freebie mail program.

I second everything.

I'll third that. Pegasus is excellent.

Yeah, it's excellent and has a strong following here.

It feels somewhat dated though.

 

[mike ring]

I've been having terrible trouble with T/bird refusing to connect
(though now it has just as mysteriously decided to work again, but in
the interim I started using pegasus, and it seemed very good.



But is Pegasus going anywhere, or is the world dropping it? I don't
want to commit to vanishing software.

Any help, please

mike

Thanks for your advice and the link to the forums; I shall follow it up, as
I think it's very nice at first sight, in particular lacking all the
horrible folders of F/F.

I've spent a few hours sweeping the mail out of all the identities and
putting it into main.pmm, and indexing it (feeling quite chuffed that I
worked that out; of course there were a zillion duplicates due to all the
frantic reinstalling, and there were pictures in there too - so far I've
deleted over 10meg and indexed about half of the rest.

But at least I don't feel so damned helpless.

I'm very concerned about Firefox, I've picked up a number of posters who
had exactly the same trouble as me over the same period; AVG download
perhaps, who knows, though it persisted through 2 other a/v progs.

The upside is I found out that AVG7 is a memory hog, which my main box
hadn't noticed (512 meg!), and I'm trying antivir and avast between the two
boxes.

But it appears officially this problem never happened, though it caused
endless grief to others as well as me;prolly a warning to be wary of
Mozilla.

My big concern after all the editing of main.pmm is that it seems very
vulnerable - is there a way of backing up important mail in some sort of
archive? it seems far to easy to delete mails, I've deleted dozens of
duplicates after restoring them by indexing, and they went up the swanee
fearfully easily, but have not shown up in a trashbox, they're just gone.

Not good for someone as prone to finger trouble as me!

mike

 

[mike ring]

Oops - for all Firefoxes above please read Thunderbird.

Now you see why I need a bullet and idiot-proof main mailbox

mike

 

[Mike]

My big concern after all the editing of main.pmm is that it seems very
vulnerable - is there a way of backing up important mail in some sort of
archive? it seems far to easy to delete mails, I've deleted dozens of
duplicates after restoring them by indexing, and they went up the swanee
fearfully easily, but have not shown up in a trashbox, they're just gone.

I back up important files (like that one) from \PMAIL\MAIL regularly for
just that reason.

 

[Gerhard Gurtner]

I back up important files (like that one) from \PMAIL\MAIL regularly for
just that reason.

Look for "Foxmail":

www.foxmail.com.cn

Easy to handle and workimg well.


###

 

[Harry Balz]

Look for "Foxmail":

www.foxmail.com.cn

Easy to handle and workimg well.

Am wondering if Pegasus has any available skins? The default tiny
icons are too hard on my eyes. Larger ones would be much
appreciated. Thanks.

Harry

 

[J44xm]

["Harry Balz"; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 03:44:52 GMT]

Am wondering if Pegasus has any available skins?

Nope. New icons are in the works, though.

 

[Bjorn Simonsen]

About Pegasus Mail, mike ring wrote in

My big concern after all the editing of main.pmm is that it seems very
vulnerable - is there a way of backing up important mail in some sort of
archive?

Save your mail in separate directories, outside of Pegasus as such.
Should the "main.pmm" burn - all you need to do is add the directories
again via the "Add mailbox to list" menu/feature. I save most of my
mail archives this way. Also makes it easy to do backup - and restore
when/if needed...and so on....

see for example:
<http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.comp.freeware/msg/fccb9409c11bc51f>

<http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.comp.freeware/msg/e93cd6daa9329919>

AFAIK remember the magic number is currently 7, that is you can only
add up to 7 directories this way in the current version. More to come
in upcoming version(s) I think... for info on developments, tips and
tricks etc, browse:
<http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~jaabogae/han/han_lkfr.htm>

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

 

[mike ring]

About Pegasus Mail, mike ring wrote in


Save your mail in separate directories, outside of Pegasus as such.
Should the "main.pmm" burn - all you need to do is add the directories
again via the "Add mailbox to list" menu/feature. I save most of my
mail archives this way. Also makes it easy to do backup - and restore
when/if needed...and so on....

see for example:
<http://groups- beta.google.com/group/alt.comp.freeware/msg/fccb9409c11b
beta.google.com/group/alt.comp.freeware/msg/e93cd6daa932
9919>

AFAIK remember the magic number is currently 7, that is you can only
add up to 7 directories this way in the current version. More to come
in upcoming version(s) I think... for info on developments, tips and
tricks etc, browse:
<http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~jaabogae/han/han_lkfr.htm>

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

Thanks very much for that Bjorn; after OE compacting files disasters and
Thunderbird's recent unreliability I'm getting sensitive about it.

My last mailbox in T/B was about 16 megs; many duplicates as I'd added
all text mailboxes from everywhere together, then I had to reindex the
whole lot for pegasus, and finally when I'd got rid of all the bloat I
was down to one and a half megs. I must try to be more disciplined!

But I could at least find all this stuff on my computer; and I think I
prefer stuff saved in windows/applications data.

Your advice is just what I need!

mike