stormysky

FYI for anyone else who'd want this (and since I've not seen reference to
it anywhere else)

Removing the button bar on top is as simple as:
Edit your PMAIL.INI
Find line that says "Button panel is closed"
Change to 'Y' (without the quotes)

::goes back to working on his extension::

robert

Xns940613B267A5BStormyskyREMOVEMEtec@216.168.3.40,
Stormysky <Stormysky@REMOVE_ME.techie.com>:


Congratulations
I've read your post carefully, and I didn't think any of your problems had
an easy solution!

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Robert
User in front of @ is fake, actual user is: mkarta

stormysky

::grins:: Thanks for the grats. Unfortunately, there's just a
'little more'. I've got 5 mail identities... if one doesn't
set that for each one, it causes rather amusing repaint
issues when one switches back and form, as well as leaves
the bar on for the default after having switched. So, it's
an all or nothing solution, apparently.

The second issue is the 'becoming' of identities, since
there's no longer the bar with the quick switch, and
no menu item to just say "Check these". (Erm, most the
time, I just check the main, occasionally check the others,
and don't want the lag of setting it up to check the others
all the time. Would be nice to just have a "Check all Identities"
option for that once a week "Let's see what's new in the world
of spam" foray).

Oh the well, it's nearly 4am and I need to go to bed: Trying
to do an extension's kicking my butt... I've actually got
Pegasus calling my dll, and my test MessageBox is displaying,
but right after that it happily crashes HARD with no useful
debug info (hell, MSVC++ pisses itself and dies trying to
debug it. :P)

I'm sure it's something to with my calls (even though
I've got 'em declared as PASCAL) and the fact that I
unwisely chose to do my .dll in asm. Bleh.

Anyway, nice to see I wasn't talking into a vacuum.
Any idea if anyone else wants to do odd things to
Pegasus's gui? (Ie, custom colours for controls, bitmap
painting, possible trapping of writes and sorting
folders into custom directories, and, the holy grail,
spawning gvim?)

robert

Xns9406273FE1855StormyskyREMOVEMEtec@216.168.3.40,
Stormysky <Stormysky@REMOVE_ME.techie.com>:


With 12 identities to my basic user, I am pretty used to changing settings
directly on the pmail.ini file within a text editor with a global-replace
feature - wouldn't think of doing it manually.


The MultiPop plugin can be set to achieve this - just set the intervals. You
can then run it silently and invisibly.

I switch identities with shortcut keystrokes using an external utility (Iolo
MacroMagic).


For this, I always rename my new folder file pairs instantly upon creation
to a meaningful filename, so I can base backup/synch processes etc. on
patterns in the filenames.

You can mimick trays = directories if you prefix all folder filenames nested
under tray XYZ with XYZ in the filenames.

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Robert
User in front of @ is fake, actual user is: mkarta

robert

blbrdj$rif$1@topaz.icpnet.pl,
Robert <userinsignaturebutdomainok@o2.pl>:


One more possibility: set up a separate user just for this purpose, and run
it once a week.

That will keep your basic user "cleaner", with fewer identities.

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Robert
User in front of @ is fake, actual user is: mkarta

darkbard

X-No-archive: yes

Sounds interesting....


Can you elaborate on this? IE, how you're renaming your folders
and having pegasus still see them. I'm making the guess it's
with files and not in Pegasus itself. If it's possible to specify
the location that way... then there should be no reason
one couldn't specify a directory, right? :onders::

Thanks again for your responses.

robert

11b6ce00.0309301139.6b13331c@posting.google.com,
Stormysky <darkbard@musician.org>:

Example: Identity is called main, mnemonic shortcut Alt-m, keystrokes
assigned:
<<ALT>>ti<<HOME>>m<<ALT>>b
in Iolo syntax, and that corresponds to: Tools, Identities, go to top,
incremental search m..., become (this identity)
.... and similarly for other identities

Correct. When you create a (Pegasus) folder, two files are created in your
home mailbox, the folder file (.pmm) and its index file (.pmi), and the file
name part identical, something like FOL02108.PMM and FOL02108.PMI. I change
the name parts of these two files to something meaningful, which I can then
use. Pegasus doesn't mind the filenames being changed.

No, I don't know of a way to do this.

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Robert
User in front of @ is fake, actual user is: mkarta

robert

blcn29$h02$1@topaz.icpnet.pl,
Robert <userinsignaturebutdomainok@o2.pl>:

Or, rather, you can of course "attach a mailbox" and specify a directory
there, but this isn't a reliable solution since hierarch.pm corruption tends
to develop with time.

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Robert
User in front of @ is fake, actual user is: mkarta

nomad

What does you extension do -- or rather, other that crash, what _will_
it do when it's finished? ;-)


Ouch -- isn't that asking for a headache? Small and fast I know, but
why not just optimise it later after you get it all working?

I'm always interested in PMail extensions, and I've got plenty of
ideas for them, I'm just alittle short of skill and experience when it
comes to the actaul coding side of things.

As for spawning (g)vim, let me know if you get it working...

Laters

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Nomad

Wondering of the vast emptyness of the 'net
in search of something cool.