[quote user="Ambassador"]

[...]

the claim that my username and password are unacceptable was when using Port 25.

[...]  [/quote]

I am not sure whether this may apply in your case but maybe worth checking.

I had my Internet Service Provider, NOT email provider, blocking all Port 25 (smtp) traffic for ADSL connection if the smtp traffic was not directed through their own SMTP server. In this way I could not access e.g. my own smtp mail server outside the ISP domain or any other smtp servers. Supposedly  to "prevent spammers sending unsolicited email" ... well ...[*-)]  This blocking was only done when a dynamic IP address was assigned by the ISP. The only way around it, with my ISP, was to get/pay a static IP address then they would allow Port 25.

I recall getting quite strange error messages which left me and even the support puzzled ...

Cheers

Thomas-M.


 

[quote user="Thomas R. Stephenson"]Messages  in the File | Open saved messages (Autosaved and other saved messages) are not queued for sending and will remain there until processed for sending or deleted. Stationary though remains in the drafts area until you delete them.[/quote]

I have many messages in the Draft Manager that I have save there while working on them. I use [message][save message][save] or if repeating, [message][save message][replace]. When I successfully send such messages, Pegasus sometimes removes them automatically from Draft Manager. Many times though it just leaves the message in the draft manager after it is successfully sent -- as if it were stationary. 

Very interesting Thomas. Are such "replacement placeholder" options documented anywhere?

They were documented in the file UDG.txt a long time ago.  This was the guide that was used with PMail that allowed you to create the special User Defined Gateways.  I've attached the zip file.  Here's a snippet from the file.

 Command substitution
--------------------

Most of the entries in this screen which accept strings allow
you to use special command substitution characters in the strings:
these are like "escape sequences" which will cause PMail to perform
some substitution at run-time. Command substitutions always begin
with a tilde (~) character, and are always two characters long.
The following command substitutions are recognised:

   This sequence...   Is replaced with this value

   ~c       The full path to the file containing the message
   ~t       The address to which to send this message
            (note: this is not necessarily the To: field)
   ~s       The message's subject field
   ~f       The full form of the message's "from" field
   ~n       The sender's user name in its simplest form
   ~b       The sender's bindery id, as a long hex integer  [Netware only]
   ~8       The first 8 chars in the sender's username
   ~y       The time and date in RFC-822 format
   ~d       A random integer, expressed as 4 hex digits
   ~q       Y if this message is a BCC, N otherwise
   ~%name%  The value of the environment variable %name%.
   ~p       The user's personal name preference   [the ~o should now be used when the name may contain high-bit characters]
   ~x       The name.ext ONLY of the container file (no path)
   ~a       The directory from which PMail was run (or base directory)
   ~h       The current user's home mailbox location
   ~w       The current user's new mail location
   ~~       A single tilde character.

I must report that I tried W32-452.exe for the 6th time just now.  The steps taken were *identical* to those taken in the other 5 tries, i.e. I used UPDATE after the installer informed me it had located the old version in C:\PMAIL\Programs.

This time, the install succeeded.  The new 4.52 prog sees all the old files--it even found an old draft I wasn't aware of.

I can't understand any of this, but I'm happy.....  ~jess

Thanks for the swift reply.  I'm supposing that v4.52 is mostly a compatibility release addressing Windows 7, but there's no drawbacks in installing it on Windows XP (?).

Thankyou Steffan

I found a .cnm file that was causing the problem. Deleted it and all is working again.

Cheers

Richard

> Is there a utility that might fix the following problem?
> I couldn't find a file in the folder it should have been in so I did
> a word search. The search found two emails in the proper folder. But
> the count for the left hand folder tree indicates that it contains
> only one message, and the right hand folder contents pane shows only
> one message.
> I can open the email from the search window but when I push reply
> Pegasus aborts.

Try  the following procedure.  This has worked for several others to restore
the functionality of the  message folders:   

1.  Use Help | About Pegasus Mail | Info to determine your mail
    directory.  Exit Pegasus mail.

2.  Rename the file HIERARCH.PM in your HOME mail directory to
    HIERARCH.SAV.

3.  Run WinPMail.  Your HIERARCH.PM will be re-created and should
    start working correctly.

Note:  This will delete any tray structure you have created and it
           will have to be recreated.  The process will not affect any
           mail of mail folders you have, it only affects the display of
           the folders.    

[quote user="cjon"]

I am trying to import e-mail addresses from Outlook Express into PMail 4.52 (new d/l today) running on a Win 7 machine.  I can convert OE addresses to a tab delimited file, no problem, but I'm darned if I can find a place to let me import it.  In the addressbook tab, I don't find an import option.

Also, I can't turn off the preview panel and get it to "stick".  It works for the current session, but when I close out and re-open, it is back.

All help appreciated.

[/quote]

With the Addressbooks and distribution lists window active, click the Addressbook tab and then Import tab delimited file.

Do you have the Save the Pegasus Mail desktop state between sessions option checked (Tools | Options | Basic settings)? Hope this helps.

Cheers!
Steffan 

I'm assisting a mate with this problem. I have a similar XP system with Pegasus mail and don't have this problem and I've compared many settings between the 2. 

The raw attachment header contains -

--=_alternative 0079438A4A2576B8_=--
--=_mixed 0079438A4A2576B8_=
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="20100128074017800.pdf"
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="20100128074017800.pdf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

The sending email client isn't clearly identified in the headers. The particular email is sent through Lotus Notes but PDF documents from other senders have the same problem.

It seems to have corrected itself.  The email in question seemed normal, though just a bit longer than usual.  It was nothing extraordinary, no attachments.  Guess the system just had a bellyache.[:)]

Aahhhhh, thank you VERY much!!!!!  Didn't even think of that!!!!  [:D] 

[quote user="Eshtaol"]

Hello Everyone....Having a strange problem

I upgraded to version 4.52 and for some reason I have messages are automatically coming in by passing

my "selective download" I keep getting the box at the top telling me I have messages and I simply want to know

when I wanted to know[/quote]

Open Tools => Internet Options => Receiving and check your settings for polling - and no, I don't have any idea how they would be changed without anyone doing it manually unless someone modified your configuration files somehow ...

Once text is typed on an existing document (following the changing of

the font) its font will change further when the page font changes, but

for some inserted text/words, the size of the text could not be changed

again. It was frozen at that size. Strange behavior. I can't understand

why that would happen with some inserted words and not others. I wonder

how the fonts and character sizes are intended to behave?

I have been trying in vain to duplicate this.  What are you using the change the font?  The black "f" works just fine for me to change the selected font.  Do you happen to be using the red "f" that changes the page font and not the selected font?

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[quote user="irelam"]With Pegasus Mail shut down, rename the Freeimage.dll to Freeimage.dlx   then restart Pegasus mail. hopefully that will solve it ????[/quote]

I wouldn't exactly regard this as a solution ... and FreeImage doesn't have an evaluation period so I doubt this is causing the issue. maybe trying to replace it with the most current version from its will reveal whether it does or not.

Giles,

Try this: copy the selection made in Word, go to Pegasus Mail - New Message, click Right in the message and select 'Paste special...'.
Make the choice you want. Succes.

Well, I would look at using SSH and get rid of FTP - too insecure.  Also, if your local system is running Pegasus, I would think you could create drive mapping to the external storage device once connected and just use the "add mailbox to list" feature and point to the remote folder. Of course, if the folder of messages is huge and you are on a remote connection, that could take a very long time....just one idea.

[quote user="Ludwin"]Is there any way to add a "To"-tab in the listing to see and sort the messages by addressee?

Or is there some way to add the "To: [addressee]" caption to archived outgoing mails and to make it visible in Pmail?

[/quote]

I see that no-one has replied to these two questions of yours, which is a bummer, because I'm just as interested in knowing this as you are. I've also got a pile of sent Thunderbird mail listed in a Pegasus Mail folder under the sender's name, i.e. me :-)

Cheers!
Steffan

[quote user="uncleralph"]Where is the config file he is referring to and how do you modify it?[/quote]

STATE.PMJ, either in the user's home or new mailbox directory (see Help => About Pegasus Mail => Info for paths). Close Pegasus Mail, open the file with a simple plain text editor like NotePad and remove the line starting with Select a mail folder RS= in the [SELFOL] section. After restarting Pegasus Mail it should return to using default values.

My old PC finally died so I've got a new one with Windows 7 installed. I've downloaded the latest version of Pegasus which installed and ran fine for two days, now when I go to open it I get the "mailbox is locked" dialog box, I click continue and it almost opens and then a windows box comes up and says "Pegasus mail for windows has stopped working" and a couple of sugestions like check online for a solution and close the program or just close the program. No matter what the program closes so now I'm back to using web mail. I don't want to lose the emails I've had in the last few days otherwise I would just do a reinstall. The machine had Norton install which has now gone and is replaced with Trend Micro.

Any ideas most welcome.

Regards

Anton