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- Default settings in Pegasus Mail
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-
- In previous versions of Pegasus Mail, a file called DEFAULTS.PM was used to
- manage default settings for new users. DEFAULTS.PM offered only a very
- limited range of customizations and wasn't generally very satisfying.
-
- Under Pegasus Mail v3.2 for DOS and v1.2 for Windows, a new text-based .INI
- format is used to store user preferences. The same file format can be used
- to default almost any aspect of the program's operation, using the
- following steps:
-
- 1: Login as a guinea-pig user. You might want to create a temporary
- account for doing this.
-
- 2: Run Pegasus Mail for DOS and/or for Windows (they share the same
- file) and set them up in exactly the way you would like them to
- appear to your users. Things you will typically change are
- preferences settings, and message settings (such as copy-to-self
- and so on).
-
- 3: Quit, and change to the guinea-pig user's new mail folder in
- SYS:MAIL/USERID. Locate the file called PMAIL.INI.
-
- 4: Copy PMAIL.INI to the same directory as PMAIL.EXE and WINPMAIL.EXE
- under the name PMDFLTS.INI.
-
- 5: Edit the file using any text editor and remove the "Personal name"
- setting. We also recommend that you remove the Window positioning
- settings for the Windows version of Pegasus Mail.
-
- That's all there is to it! New users will now pick up all the settings
- in this file the first time they run Pegasus Mail for DOS or Windows.
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-