Solved How to install Pegasus Email Client on FreeBSD

OK. I am back at this thread and have a lot of useful info to share with anyone who wishes to use Pegasus on FreeBSD.

My system here now includes FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE-p1 and is working quite satisfactorily. The desktop I am using is MATE. All is working fine. My main purpose is to eventually get totally rid of Windows in any version. FreeBSD is, as I had hoped, far more stable than Windows, and takes an amazingly shorter time to load.

Finally, today, with major help from alexander88207.58536 and Mituzamari, I was able to install an operating WINE and Pegasus-Mail.

After completing the "Install Wizard" included in Pegasus, downloading and reading e-mail, and sending replies now works perfectly. MOST of the commands built into Pegasus appear to work correctly. At least all those I have tried to use so far work perfectly.

However, there are still several matters that I have to figure out and correct.

1) After using Pegasus, when I close it out, and then wish to simply reopen it, I must go through the Pegasus setup wizard again. Obviously, all my settings are NOT kept somewhere, and I must "relaunch" it from within Mituzamari's menu system and reconfigure it.

2) There is no desktop icon or any icon in the Applications list to start Pegasus anywhere. It must be started and restarted from Mituzamari's menu system. I would think that since it is working through WINE that I should be able to set up an Icon to use Pegasus directly.

3) When clicking on any HTML links in Pegasus, which normally simply connects to my web browser and opens, Pegasus completely crashes and closes. As I remember it, Pegasus uses IERenderer to open web pages, but that won't work in FreeBSD since IE doesn't exist there (thank goodness) and I have not yet figured out how to override that.

4) Since I have a large number of e-mails archived on my WIN10 drive, which I have mounted appropriately, I would think there must be some way to connect that to Pegasus here, but have not yet figured out how to do that. Might anyone here have any suggests on how to do this?

So, that is where I am now. Lots of successes, and some serious issues.

Thanks to anyone who can help with these.

Ken Gordon
 
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I now know how to eliminate most of issue #2) above...if I could write a pegasus.desktop file that worked... :-(

More details as soon as I can provide them.

Ken Gordon
 
Remaining issues with the installation of Pegasus-Mail on FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE-p1:

1) The settings in Pegasus' "Network Configuration" must be added each time Pegasus is closed then restarted. Those settings are not being saved appropriately.

2) Despite adding the executable for my present browser, firefox.exe to the Hyperlink settings within Pegasus/Tools/Options, not all hyperlinks can be opened by clicking on them. Many times, Pegasus crashes. Other times, it works. This seems to be random.

3) I have not been able, so far, to write an operable pegasus.desktop file within /usr/local/share/applications.

But, other than these rather annoying, but fairly minimal, issues, Pegasus Mail is working very well, and MUCH faster than it ever did under Windows 10.

So, I am still working on these remaining issues. I will report any progress, or lack of it, here until I can declare this issue solved and closed.

Ken Gordon
 
KenGordon said:
3) I have not been able, so far, to write an operable pegasus.desktop file within /usr/local/share/applications.
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Code: 
[Desktop Entry]

Name=Pegasus Mail

Exec=Mizuma Launch Pegasus-Mail

Type=Application

StartupNotify=true

Comment=Run Pegasus Mail

Icon=B4B5_WINPM-32.0

StartupWMClass=winpm-32.exe

Categories=Network;Email;News;InstantMessaging;
 
OK. Thanks to mega help from alexander88207.58536 and from Mr. Michael D. Setzer II from the PMAIL forum, my installation of Pegasus-Mail on FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE-p1 is operating perfectly.

I am very grateful to both for their help. Alexander wrote Mizatumari which successfully installs both WINE and Pegasus, among other software. His program takes all the worry and effort out of getting WINE to run on FreeBSD. His software is a package in the ports collection. Mr. Setzer advised me of a small bug in Pegasus' latest version, 4.8, and suggested a fix which works perfectly.

As soon as I can take the time from doing income taxes, I will compose and publish a HOWTO on this forum to enable anyone so inclined to install Pegasus on their FreeBSD system.

I have used Pegasus for many years as my preferred e-mail client. I have tried many other such clients and Pegasus is the only one which does what I have needed it to do.

The last thing which was preventing me from completely dumping Windows from our family computers was being unable to use Pegasus. That problem is now non-existent and my project can proceed.

I will mark this thread as solved.

Later.

Ken Gordon
 
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