Pegasus Mail & Mercury

idw:

Coach:

( As much as I want to just accept this fix and move on, it's got me extremely curious as to how such a simple setting can hose my machine up so majorly.)

You really want to know all the details? Ok, here we go, trying my best: For historical reasons (which I cannot verify myself) Pegasus Mail resorted to loading the Windows WINSOCK library (whatever it's actual name was/is) on demand since this was (supposedly) required for initiating an automated dial-up (and enabled people for using custom SOCKETS implementations). As this became less important since most people nowadays use permanent connections and Pegasus Mail's functionality got more and more extended (using additonal modules such as HTML renderers, but it would also affect any module using HTML help (like my encryption extensions)) another issue became obvious as being related to unloading the WINSOCK library: There appear to be implicit dependencies on the WINSOCK library being kept loaded applying to other modules such as the WININET library which in turn is used by almost any module trying to (potentially) download stuff from the Internet (such as HTML renderers or the HTML help system). This wouldn't be an issue, though, if the instance counting supposedly applied to calls to the LoadLibrary() and FreeLibrary() functions would work properly which should prevent function pointers from getting invalidated by unloading the WINSOCK library while other modules still seem to depend on it. The only suprising thing here is that this failure doesn't cause plain crashes instead of high CPU load which would be the more usual result of such issues ...

It scares me that I actually understand all this.  Thanks!

Coach:

It scares me that I actually understand all this.  Thanks!

I take this as a compliment ...

---

Michael

--
PGP Key ID (RSA 2048): 0xC45D831B
PGP Plugin for Pegasus Mail: <http://www.pmpgp.de/pmpgp/>
S/MIME Certificate Fingerprint: 26 5c a3 60 02 c6 e3 8a 75 70 d5 6a 67 ff d3 8d b0 b5 5e 5b

Hello,

Since I am having this kind of problem CPU hitting 100% without AV sw active,  I just read the messages posted here and I do not see that there is a solution to this issue.

Is this correct?

Thank you 

 

Ezio

 

 

> Since I am having this kind of problem CPU hitting 100% without AV sw
> active,  I just read the messages posted here and I do see that there
> is a solution to this issue.
>
> Is this correct?

Yes it is, have you followed the instructions to set the Winsock to load always.

---

Thomas R. Stephenson
San Jose, California
Member of Pegasus Mail Support Team

I do not answer private messages from the forum. If you want to contact me use email to techsupp@tstephenson.com.

Hallo, ich sehe, bei Dir steht Germany, deswegen die Frage auf Deutsch. Wie ist "Tools" in der deutschen Version übesetzt? Ich kann nichts

finden, was passt.

Gruss, Peter

 

PeBi:

Hallo, ich sehe, bei Dir steht Germany, deswegen die Frage auf Deutsch. Wie ist "Tools" in der deutschen Version übesetzt?

See German forum.

---

Michael

--
PGP Key ID (RSA 2048): 0xC45D831B
PGP Plugin for Pegasus Mail: <http://www.pmpgp.de/pmpgp/>
S/MIME Certificate Fingerprint: 26 5c a3 60 02 c6 e3 8a 75 70 d5 6a 67 ff d3 8d b0 b5 5e 5b

PeBi:

ich sehe, bei Dir steht Germany, deswegen die Frage auf Deutsch.

No good idea ... IDW adviced you to german forumpart for writing german

Wie ist "Tools" in der deutschen Version übesetzt? Ich kann nichts finden, was passt.

Tools is translated to Extras in german.

bye   Olaf

 

I can confirm that the " Winsock load always" fixed the issue for me.

 

Tx very much

The " Winsock load always" fixed the issue for me too.

 Many thanks.

I am not sure if this is closed or if I need to open another issue. I updated to 4.63 and I now have the issue of winpm-32 hitting 100% when it is checking for mail and updating folders. I have the Option set to ALWAYS. I also seem to get 100% when startup. I did not have this problem in 4.62.

Do you have several identities? Did you set it to "allways" in all identities?

bye   Olaf

 

No additional identities that I am aware. ALWAYS is turned on. After I have read an email form a folder I click on the New Mail folder and then the 100% is reached. This did not happen in 4.62, it started only after I upgraded to 4.63. I am using XP.

Auser:

No additional identities that I am aware. ALWAYS is turned on. After I have read an email form a folder I click on the New Mail folder and then the 100% is reached. This did not happen in 4.62, it started only after I upgraded to 4.63. I am using XP.

Do you have auto-download of embedded HTML images enabled?

---

Michael

--
PGP Key ID (RSA 2048): 0xC45D831B
PGP Plugin for Pegasus Mail: <http://www.pmpgp.de/pmpgp/>
S/MIME Certificate Fingerprint: 26 5c a3 60 02 c6 e3 8a 75 70 d5 6a 67 ff d3 8d b0 b5 5e 5b

I apologize, I have looked and can not seen to find the option. Where may I find it?

Tools, Options, Incoming..., Message reader section and look down near bottom for checking manual or automatic. You probably want manual.