Pegasus Mail: E-Mail Made Easy

Install and Configure Pegasus Mail

To begin, download the installer application and remember where on your hard drive you save it.

Download Pegasus Mail from PCWorld.com.

Next, make sure you have the following information handy for each account you'll be checking:

• The e-mail address and password for each of your mail accounts.
  
  
• The address of your POP or IMAP (incoming mail) server.
  
  
• The address of your STMP (outgoing mail) server. Often, but not always, this is the same address as the POP or IMAP server.
  
  

When you double-click the installer, Pegasus will first ask you if you want to be able to send mail with more than one return address or if you want to receive mail from multiple mailboxes. Click the middle icon if you plan to use Pegasus to check multiple e-mail accounts, or click the top icon if you plan to use it for a single mail account.

Pegasus Mail then will ask you where to put its mail file. The program uses C:\PMAIL\MAIL as the default location where it stores mail messages. If you installed the application anywhere other than the default installation folder of C:\PMAIL (for example, C:\Program Files\PMAIL), make sure you change the default mail file path to match where you installed Pegasus (in this example, C:\Program Files\PMAIL\MAIL).

Create Your User List

Next, you'll see a dialog named Create Initial Pegasus Mail Users. Click the New button to add a new user, and enter a username for yourself and your full name. If you also want to let someone else use the same computer to check his or her mail account(s), you'll want to repeat this process. Pegasus Mail uses this name to keep track of which accounts belong to which people; this username doesn't have to be the same as your POP3 mail server username.

Fill in the check box next to Administrator Privileges for your username. If you plan to use Pegasus to check multiple accounts, make sure at least one user is set up to have Administrator Privileges. Click OK. When you're finished entering names, click the Close button.

POP Goes the Mailbox

Next, Pegasus Mail will ask you to enter a username you gave Pegasus Mail in the Create Users dialog. Type the name in the Username field and click OK. The application will begin asking for the settings for your POP3 mail account. Enter your full e-mail address, then click Next. In the following dialog, the program will ask you to enter the POP3 server you use to check your mail. Enter the server address in the field and click Next. If you don't know this stuff yet, don't worry; you can cancel out and enter it later using File, Network Configuration. (If your ISP doesn't use POP3, click Cancel and scroll to If You Use IMAP Instead of POP3 below.)

Pegasus will next ask for your POP3 username and password. Your POP3 username is the part of your e-mail address to the left of the @ symbol and does not necessarily have to be the same as your Pegasus Mail username. Enter the information and click Next, then enter the address of your SMTP server (if necessary) and click Next again.

Lastly, the wizard will ask how you connect to the Internet. Click the Network radio button if you will use the program at the office on a LAN or at home using a cable or digital subscriber line modem. Otherwise just click Next, then click Finish.

If You Use IMAP Instead of POP3

If one or more of your e-mail accounts uses IMAP instead of POP3, there are a few extra steps you'll need to take. Pegasus Mail asks for the setup information in a separate IMAP Profiles dialog box you can reach by choosing Tools, IMAP Profiles.

To create a profile, click the New button in the Manage IMAP Profiles dialog box. Pegasus will ask you to create a name for the profile, enter the IMAP server address, and enter your username and account password for that server. Every IMAP server setup is different, so you may need to ask your mail administrator for the path to your IMAP mail directory; enter that in the field labeled Mailbox Reference. Check the options that you need or want for your mailbox to work properly and click OK.

If you always want Pegasus Mail to connect to your IMAP server as soon as you run the program, fill in the check box labeled "Always connect to this profile at startup." If you want to connect manually, leave this check box blank and click the Connect button on the Manage IMAP Profiles dialog box each time you want to check that account's mail.