Ah thankyou John... Yes well I've been using Pegasus mail for DOS (freeware) for the last 10 or so months now. I use it for all my mail. To send and receive mail over the internet I use Arachne. I guess you could try to make an APM that links Pegasus within Arachne's mail, but I'm not sure how to do that. It would espescially difficult IMO since there's a few tricks you need to do before you can write outgoing mail with Pegasus to be sent with Arachne (dont worry if you cant understand that last sentence :) I run Pegasus seperate to Arachne through a fine DOS program called Desktop 2. There is an icon called Arachne, and an icon called Pegasus. Simple eh. You can write and read emails in Pegasus offline, convenient when you are connected to the internet via expensive Australian ISPs, and Telecoms. Then when you want to send and receive your email you go into Arachne, dial, send mail, receive mail...you can then use Arachne mail if you want to, but I find it too slow. You hang up, and exit Arachne. Now you go into Pegasus. Amazingly, someone has set Pegasus' mailbox directory to the same one as Arachne's, and amazingly, Pegasus reads all the emails Arachne has received...that's because Michael (creator of Arachne) just used the same format as Pegasus. Now you go ahead and read, reply, compose, DELETE, etc whatever...I find Pegasus useful for my 100 emails a day from about 5 mailing lists...as well as personal mail, which I happen to use Pegasus' filtering features so I can find whatever email I'm after among the many. Now you exit Pegasus...there is outgoing mail waiting to be sent... BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT (there's the but) Arachne cant read it! Arachne uses it's own format of file for OUTGOING mail... You need a special program that converts all your outgoing Pegasus mail to Arachne format. This program I made: http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/nova/229/software/peg2arac.zip will do it, including a file called README.TXT which explains how to set it all up so you can use Pegasus and Arachne effortlessly. If that link doesnt work, it's because I'm still trying to make an Arachne page on my website...email me if you want it NOW. Just a word about Pegasus...you need to set it to STANDALONE mode, where there is no actual sending and receiving of mail THROUGH Pegasus. It's in the Pegasus documentation, but maybe I could make a quick installation ZIP file, although that would go against the freeware license agreement which says that you have to distribute it in it's original form... I dont think Trumpet will call down evil upon me though if I make such a thing available on say an Arachne page on my website? Oh maybe they will...well I will have a look at Pegasus for DOS download, I dont think I've got mine anymore. The next best thing to Pegasus is Post Haste made by Hoody, which works directly with Arachne, and is better set out than Pegasus, but is too slow at the moment...it is currently in the development stages. Should be a very nice DOS program when it is 'Fully Blown'. I used to 'archive' my mail to a zip disk, but as yet still havent come up with a way of doing it effortlessly and with speed...for now I DELETE! :) But keep your address books and links backed up. They are the most precious. On 21 Apr 99 at 2:13, John P. Tomany wrote: > On Tue, 20 Apr 1999 00:37:45 +0200, "" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > is there anybody on the list using Pegasus mail for DOS? > > I suggest you email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( a regular contributor here, > from the Oz contingent...). He's our Pegasus-and-Arachne expert. > > > So, any suggestions how I have to setup DOSPPP and SMTPOP? How can I get > > DOSPPPD working for several programs including Arachne? Is there any > > possibility to change the directory of the PPP driver in Arachne? > > Don't change the location of the driver. > Run Arachne normally, connecting with DOSPPPD ( or EPPPD - whichever > came with Arachne ) - then exit without hanging up. ( no ALT-H ). > Your DOS internet connection will remain alive while you call up the > other programs which are PPPD-aware. > > You also can start the other programs first, and close them while keeping > the PPPD connection open. Then run Arachne, and press ALT-D. When Arachne > sees the active connection inside miniterm ( lots of trash on the screen for > a second or so ), it will come up to the homepage. _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Pop, in an uncontrolled environment Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ISP) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (forwarded, prefered) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (backup) WWW: http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/nova/229/index.htm _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.
