In newer releases of Pegasus Mail, the cause of such continuous crashes is usually due to a badly-formatted HTML e-mail message in the new mail folder. For this problem to appear, you have to be using the preview panel mode instead of classic folders mode. This is because the preview panel mode automatically displays the top message (most likely corrupt) in the new mail folder while starting up. To resolve this problem, you need to move all of the .CNM new mail message files out of your mailbox directory (new mailbox location) and then start Pegasus Mail. If Pegasus Mail starts up fine (after clicking the "Continue" button in the locked mailbox dialog), then you can start moving back each .CNM new mail message--one at a time--and pressing Ctrl-W to refresh the new mail folder and select the message to view it. Repeat for each .CNM file. As soon Pegasus Mail crashes, you have found the culprit. Pull that .CNM file back out of the new mail directory and put all of the other .CNM files back into the new mailbox directory and restart Pegasus Mail again.
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Date: 2008-05-16 12:30 pm (UTC)http://kbase.pmail.gen.nz/viewfull.cfm?ObjectID=16248E1C-D1B2-4EF7-9E68ABE78BFF390B
It's a pity there's no "safemode" you can use to start up without the preview pane in this kind of instance.