Switch from single user to multi-user - Pegasus

David submitted this idea :
> Apologies if there is a how-to in some obvious place - please direct me
> to it. I have installed PMail 4.31 on a new PC by copying the entire
> PMail folder from another PC (also running 4.31, as single user), then
> running the install as an update. All is fine. Now I wish to convert
> the new single-user installation to support a second user, but I can't
> find how to do it either from within PMail, or by re-running the
> install, or by using PConfig.
>
> I'm quite willing to scrap the PMail directory and run a clean install
> - that would presumably give me the option to have multiple users - but
> I don't want to have to recreate signatures, distr'n lists, address
> books, identities and IMAP settings. In fact, I positively want them
> to be identical to the installation on the other PC in order to
> facilitate parallel updating in the future.
>
> Any pointers gratefully received.
May be this http://www.pmail.com/faqs/faqs_wsi.htm might help.

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Thank you, Bernard - should have (re)found that FAQ myself. Problem
solved. Incidentally, I also tried the following hint from a recent
thread (Re: Peg 4.3 on Win XP, 08 Jan 2006):

> you can create a new environment variable whose name is
> PMUSER with the value %username%. Doing that you won't be prompt anymore
> for your username when you run PMail. Each user will run pmail under his
> own account.

I had expected to enter PMUSER as a system variable, but the variable
didn't get replaced by the appropriate value, staying as literal
"%USERNAME%" instead, for me as admin user, anyway. Substitution did
seem to work if it was a user variable. Is that correct? Does that
mean that it will have to be entered separately for other users?

Thanks for help, as always.
David

It happens that David formulated :
> Thank you, Bernard - should have (re)found that FAQ myself. Problem
> solved.
You're welcome. Forget to look also at times at the FAQ.
Glad you progressed in the problem solving.
> Incidentally, I also tried the following hint from a recent
> thread (Re: Peg 4.3 on Win XP, 08 Jan 2006):
>
>> you can create a new environment variable whose name is
>> PMUSER with the value %username%. Doing that you won't be prompt anymore
>> for your username when you run PMail. Each user will run pmail under his
>> own account.
>
> I had expected to enter PMUSER as a system variable, but the variable
> didn't get replaced by the appropriate value, staying as literal
> "%USERNAME%" instead, for me as admin user, anyway. Substitution did
> seem to work if it was a user variable. Is that correct? Does that
> mean that it will have to be entered separately for other users?
I have not tried things like this.
I am afraid I cant't advice futher on this aspect.
>
> Thanks for help, as always.
> David
Bernard

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"David" <ddenison@gmail.com> wrote in news:1138055135.194315.227710
@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> I had expected to enter PMUSER as a system variable, but the variable
> didn't get replaced by the appropriate value, staying as literal
> "%USERNAME%" instead, for me as admin user, anyway. Substitution did
> seem to work if it was a user variable. Is that correct? Does that
> mean that it will have to be entered separately for other users?

This is because the %USERNAME% environment variable upon which the %
PMUSER% environment variable depends, isn't initialized with a value
until the user authenticates to Windows. User environment variables are
set when the user logs in, whereas system environment variables are set
when the system boots. You can't have a system environment variable that
is dependent upon the value of a user environment variable.

Cheers
GRB