Pegasus Mail & Mercury

I thought my network addressing problem was solved but the saved mail has the same problem as the mail folders had before. I can access all saved mail from #1 PC, but from #2 PC over the network all the emails after April 2007 have no bodies. They are listed and can be opened and have subjects and outgoing addresses, but  no body  text.

How can I access saved mail from the networked #2 PC?

 Stan Hilliard 

The 2nd PC is not pointing at the same HOME mail directory directory as the 1st PC.  You also must have an old mailbox available since if it were not looking at a mailbox you would see nothing but the new mail. 

Again, check the setting for the HOME and NEW mail directory and verify you are using a UNC format instead of a drive letter type path so you can be sure that different drive mappings are not causing the problem.

 

 

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

Thomas R. Stephenson:

The 2nd PC is not pointing at the same HOME mail directory directory as the 1st PC.  You also must have an old mailbox available since if it were not looking at a mailbox you would see nothing but the new mail.

Again, check the setting for the HOME and NEW mail directory and verify you are using a UNC format instead of a drive letter type path so you can be sure that different drive mappings are not causing the problem.

You are right. Here are my total settings and related paths and directories for #1 PC and #2 PC:

==== On #1 PC: ====
In pegasus [tools][general settengs][mailbox location]
\\TOWER\E\MAIL\PMAIL

Runing D:\PMAIL\pconfig.exe
\\tower\E\Mail\Pmail
\\tower\E\Mail\Pmail\NewMail

In file D:\PMAIL\PMAIL.CFG
\\tower\E\Mail\Pmail\NewMail   (+45 spaces)  \\tower\E\Mail\Pmail

In file E:\Mail\Pmail\NewMail\PMAIL.INI
No references to "E:" or \\tower (other than \E\)
No references to "homebuilt", which is the name of #2PC.

==== On #2 PC: ====
I found the other mailbox. On #2 PC. I am using E:\mail\pmail\ and E:\mail\pmail\newmail as a backup that I created April 25 2007. I guess that is the mailbox that has been confusing Pegasus.

E:\mail\pmail\ contains about 45 files starting 8/14/2008 to present -- the period that I have been networking Pegasus. Mostly FOL*.PPM but also
NEWCACHE.PM
CACHE.PM
STATE.PMJ
HIERARCH.PM
FOLSTATE.PN
DESKTOP.PM0
virscan.log
virscan.bck

E:\mail\pmail\newmail\ contains 2 recent files:
PMAIL.INI
PMAIL.OLD

Could it be that Pegasus is hard coded to look on the local PC first regardless of other settings?
Stan Hilliard 

On 21 Aug 2008 23:03 Pegasus Mail & Mercury - Automated Email <Thomas R. Stephenson> wrote:


> >  Thomas R. Stephenson:
> >
> > The 2nd PC is not pointing at the same HOME mail directory directory as
> > the 1st PC.  You also must have an old mailbox available since if it were
> > not looking at a mailbox you would see nothing but the new mail.
> >
> > Again, check the setting for the HOME and NEW mail directory and
> > verify you are using a UNC format instead of a drive letter type
> > path so you can be sure that different drive mappings are not
> > causing the problem.
>
>
> You are right. Here are my total settings and related paths and
> directories for #1 PC and #2 PC:
>
> On #1 PC:
> In pegasus [tools][general settengs][mailbox location]
> \\TOWER\E\MAIL\PMAIL

You should try Help | About Pegasus Mail | Info to see the mail directory locations, there a snippet of mine.  Note that I am running separate HOME and NEW mail directories on the same remote server.

Pegasus Mail for Microsoft Windows
Copyright (C) 1992-2008, David Harris, all rights reserved
Electronic mail to support@pmail.gen.nz.

WinPMail version: Version 4.50 VC19 (Win32), Aug 13 2008
Language resources: Standard UK English resource set
Extension Manager version: 1.13
Operating mode: Standalone
User name and ID: support, 0
Windows version: 5.1
Windows flag word: 0
WINPMAIL.EXE directory: C:\pmail
Home mailbox location: \\tstephenson\c_drive\pmail\mail\thomas
New mailbox location: \\tstephenson\c_drive\PMAIL\MAIL\support

>
> Runing D:\PMAIL\pconfig.exe
> \\tower\E\Mail\Pmail
> \\tower\E\Mail\Pmail\NewMail

You should really use pconfig.exe to read these data.  It's easy to cur and paste.

Home mailbox :    [\\tstephenson\c_drive\PMAIL\MAIL\~n  ]
New mailbox  :     \\tstephenson\c_drive\PMAIL\MAIL\~n
Asynch gateway? :  N



>
> In file D:\PMAIL\PMAIL.CFG
> \\tower\E\Mail\Pmail\NewMail   (+45 spaces)  \\tower\E\Mail\Pmail
>
> In file E:\Mail\Pmail\NewMail\PMAIL.INI
> No references to "E:" or \\tower (other than \E\)
> No references to "homebuilt", which is the name of #2PC.
>
> I found the other mailbox. On #2 PC I am using E:\mail\pmail\ and
> E:\mail\pmail\newmail as a backup that I created April 25 2007. I
> guess that is the mailbox that has been confusing Pegasus.

Could be but in this case the HOME mail directory in the pmail.ini file should be pointing to this directory.

>
> On #2 PC.
> E:\mail\pmail\ contains about 45 files starting 8/14/2008 to present
> -- the period that I have been networking Pegasus. Mostly FOL*.PPM
> but also
> NEWCACHE.PM
> CACHE.PM
> STATE.PMJ
> HIERARCH.PM
> FOLSTATE.PN
> DESKTOP.PM0
> virscan.log
> virscan.bck
>
> E:\mail\pmail\newmail\ contains 2 recent files:
> PMAIL.INI
> PMAIL.OLD
>
> Could it be that Pegasus is hard coded to look on the local PC first
> regardless of other settings?

Only if you are using the -ROAM commandline option.

-ROAM  This option tells Pegasus Mail that it should ignore the configured drive letter when locating user mailboxes and mail files, and should instead use the drive letter of the drive from which WINPM-32.EXE was run. If Pegasus Mail and your mailbox directories are located on the same physical drive, you should always use this option. -ROAM greatly simplifies running the program on Peer-to-Peer and non-NetWare networks, because it allows the same copy of the program to be run no matter what drive letter mappings exist on the particular workstation where it runs. This switch also allows you to install a complete, working copy of Pegasus Mail, complete with mailboxes, onto a memory stick, and to use that memory stick in any computer where it is subsequently plugged. You must not use this switch if Pegasus Mail and your mailbox directories cannot be accessed using the same drive letter. This switch is ignored and has no effect in either Novell NetWare operating mode.

> Stan Hilliard

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

Just a short aside. How are you getting the

>  and
> >

Into your messages?

When I push quote I get the

...

style. 

Here is [help][about][info]

Pegasus Mail for Microsoft Windows
Copyright (C) 1992-2006, David Harris, all rights reserved
Electronic mail to support@pmail.gen.nz.

WinPMail version: Version 4.41 (Win32), Jul 16 2006
Language resources: Standard UK English resource set
Extension Manager version: 1.13
Operating mode: Standalone
User name and ID: Single-user mode, 0
Windows version: 5.1
Windows flag word: 0
WINPMAIL.EXE directory: \\Tower\D\Program Files\PMAIL
Home mailbox location: \\tower\E\MAIL\PMAIL
New mailbox location: \\tower\E\Mail\Pmail\NewMail
TMP environment variable: C:\DOCUME~1\STANHI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp
TEMP environment variable: C:\DOCUME~1\STANHI~1\LOCALS~1\Temp
LAN-based SMTP support: N, N, N
NetWare MHS support: N, N, N
Built-in TCP/IP support: Enabled
  - WINSOCK version: (Not loaded)
  - WINSOCK path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\WSOCK32.DLL
Commandline:
Active -Z options: 32768
PMR variable: (None)
PML variable: (None)
MAI variable: (None)
NB variable: (None)

The dates on the files in the backup directory go up to 8/16/08 -- several days ago. At that time I did not have all the E:\ converted to \\tower\E\. I had thought I changed them all but today I found that I was wrong about that.

I think that explains what happened.

Can I just copy the files that are incorrectly on #2 PC over to #1 PC?

StanH:

Just a short aside. How are you getting the

>  and
> >

Into your messages?

When I push quote I get the

...

style. 

I get the posts from the forum via e-mail and sometimes I reply via Pegasus Mail rather than using this very primitive system.  This is especially true when I need to use the in-line comments and the very powerful WinPMail glossary function.  This editor is worse than trying to use Outlook as my mailer.  ;-)

 

 

 

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

Thomas R. Stephenson:

StanH:

Just a short aside. How are you getting the

>  and
> >

Into your messages?

When I push quote I get the

...

style. 

I get the posts from the forum via e-mail and sometimes I reply via Pegasus Mail ...

What email address do you send the reply to?
 

What email address do you send the reply to?

None, I copy and paste the text into a 'quick reply' here.

 

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