Pegasus Mail startup flags.

This page is part of a serial about the command line, a complex Pegasus Mail command line looks like:

Pegasus Mail can be configured to act different depending on the startup flag added to the commandline. By default Pegasus Mail uses the value 32768 if NO flags are specified. You can find the actual -Z value in Help -> About -> Info on the line "Active -Z options:".

Various -Z options can be activated by combining the value to the total. Indeed only one -Z <value> pair may occur on the command line. An invalid -Z value will be ignored.

So e.g. 32770 means actually:

Flag value	Description
2	Do not save the widths of columns in folders between sessions
32768	Use DOS-compatible character conversions

There are numerous options that can be used to configure Pegasus Mail, some are very obvious others are very hard to explain becaus of the technical nature of the option. There is no formal documentation on the values below. The information provides comes from the HELP within Pegasus Mail for Windows.
I will try to gather more information on this subject over time.

Flag value	Information
1	Never load WINSOCK.DLL (disables the built-in POP3 and SMTP mailing code).
2	Do not save the widths of columns in folders between sessions
4	Don't send NetWare Broadcast delivery notifications.
8	Undocumented
16	Force the use of MIME encodings in noticeboards
32	Enter TCP/IP debugging mode
64	Use "From field" value to form the SMTP envelope address
128	"Blind load" WINSOCK.DLL - do not attempt to locate it first
256	Undocumented
512	Play new mail alert sound any time new mail arrives (the sound usually only plays when minimized)
1024	Use blocking sockets; may be needed for some defective WINSOCK implementations./td>
2048	llow multiple instances of the 32-bit version of Pegasus Mail to run at the same time on different mailboxes (use with care).
4096	Use blocking WINSOCK Name Resolution calls; may be needed by some defective WINSOCK implementations.
8192	Undocumented
16384	Update the new mail folder with each new message as it is downloaded using the POP3 protocol.
32768	Use DOS-compatible character conversions on 8-bit data (note that this switch has a reversed meaning from its meaning in previous versions of Pegasus Mail)
65536	Use simplified drive detection code. Use this switch under OS/2 and Windows 3.x if you find that Pegasus Mail crashes when you try to save attachments to disk or add attachments to messages.
131072	Do not start the Internet Setup Wizard for first time users even if a valid WINSOCK.DLL is detected.
262144	Force all message text to flow right-to-left. This is an experimental option intended for use in environments such as Hebrew Windows, where both Western and Hebrew

Now how can we tell Pegasus Mail to use the -Z values. There are at least three different ways to do so:

• Add the string "-Z <value>" to the commandline, like in c:\pmail\program\winpmail.exe -Z 32770
• Create a file called PEGASUS.INI in the program directory. More information about how to do this can be found here. This file can also be named winpmail.ini instead.
• to follow.