When I try to launch my Pegasus mail program from my portable, the 
splash screen flashes on and then nothing happens.

I have a home network including my desktop under Win2000 running across 
a Linksys 54 Mb wireless connection and a portable (Win XP with a 
*wired* connection) with my mail storage folder on the desktop and the 
Pegasus PMail folders on drive C: on both.

After much fruitless faffing around with pmail.cfg and pmail.ini I 
discovered that Pegasus ran OK if I first started Explorer and had 
opened the mapped, shared 'Mail' folder.  A late look at the mapped 
drive in Explorer showed that the drive was 'disconnected' although 
double clicking on it launched the drive anyway!  I tried kick-starting 
the connection by running a batch file (cmd dir f:\mail) on startup.  It 
couldn't see the mapped drive.  I then tried putting a shortcut in the 
portable's startup folder to open Explorer at f:\mail (explorer /n, 
f:\mail).  This worked, allowing Pegasus to launch.

But it's a kludge and I would like to do this more elegantly.  Could 
anyone tell me if this failure to open is
1.  a Windows quirk (in earlier versions there was a delayed log-on, 
wasn't there?),
2.  a result of the wireless aspect of the network,
3.  even a Pegasus problem or
3.  something else.

Can this be fixed?

TIA
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TestPilot

You could try deleting pmail.cfg and then pointing out your maildir in 
the format \\machine\share\dir.

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R.

testpilot wrote:


> I have a home network including my desktop under Win2000 running
> across a Linksys 54 Mb wireless connection and a portable (Win XP
> with a *wired* connection) 
>

> A late look at the mapped drive in Explorer showed that the drive
> was 'disconnected' 
>

See if this helps with the disconnecting drive:

<http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/194/>

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Regards,
Guy

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