> I am trying to use the -j command line option to send emails. If
> there is an instance of Pegasus running then the emails are sent
> immediately. However if Pegasus is not running the emails are queued
> and when I next run it , on exit I am prompted to send the queued
> emails. Is this the expected action of Pegasus?

Yes, it you want to send a message immediately then you should use a command line mailer like Blat!.

BLAT  http://sourceforge.net/projects/blat

DESCRIPTION:

Blat is a Public Domain  Windows NT console utility that sends the contents of a file in an e- mail message using the SMTP protocol. Blat is useful for creating scripts where mail has to be sent automatically (CGI, backups, etc.) To use Blat you must have access to a SMTP server via TCP-IP. Blat uses the a DLL ("gensock" or "gwinsock") from WinVN, the public domain usenet newsreader for windows. Blat can store a default SMTP server address and a default "From:" field in the registry. The server's address can be overriden using the -server flag, and the "From:" address using the -f flag. Input from the console (stdin) can be used instead of a disk file (if the special filename '-' is specified). Blat can also "carbon copy" and "blind carbon copy" the message. Impersonation can be done with the -i flag which puts the value specified in the "From:" line, however when this is done the real senders address is stamped in the "Reply-To:" and "Sender:" lines. This feature can be useful when using the program to send messages from NT users that are not registered on the SMTP host.   

Optionally, blat can also attach multiple binary files to your message.

That said, if you are using Mercury/32 to send the mail then there are a number of other options as well.

Hello Michael,

yes, I restarted Pegasus and even reinstalled it, with transfer of files from the old to the new program. Apparently I also transferred the problem which, as Tom pointed out, was hidden in the queued message. Removing it did the trick. (I use VISTA).

Hermann 

but when i read received mail by Pegasus Mail this link is

http://127.0.0.1/frm/activate.php?x=omid%40localhost&y=adaa259aa513449d95aa6e8ab36847f1

 if you notice to above link, this link is incorrect. 13 character in the end of above line in not a html link.

why?

Hard to say what is wrong with the PHP process since I have not seen a MercuryS session log with what you have actually sent to MercuryS.  It looks like plain text but I suspect is is not.  I can paste this URL into into PMail as unwrapped plain text and send it without any problem on the receiving end at all.  I can do this as well with Outlook and Thunderbird.  I can also create a link in PMail with this string as send it as an HTML message and it comes through normally. There is something wrong with the string as sent via SMTP to the MercuryS server.

I suspect that one of those characters is not a valid ASCII character.  What happens when you select it all an use "Open selection as Hyperlink" in PMail?

Thank you very much, all is well now.

Most likely you have a wiring problem (as the only change was replace a switch) in your building, with intermittent connection problems. This will affect software protocols that are poor in recovering from faults, like paradox databases and open imap connections. The only way to catch something like this, is to investigate piece by piece what is happening in each segment of your network.

Edit add: I should have said also, that with Vista you need to open explorer, and make sure explorer reconnects the drive, before you attempt to restart Pegasus Mail.

Any advice for me?. (Although I am reasonably computer literate, I am

not great on deep technology, so I hope there is a simple solution

V4.31 had problems like this, upgrade to v4.41.

Thomas,

Found it !!

Thank you for your help.

The window had been manually minimized, i.e. for some reason, lost in the mists of time, I had grabbed the corner of the window and reduced it down to only the header bar. Consequently, although everything indicated the window was there , I couldn't see it.     All is well now and I can edit my filter to get rid of even more incoming spam and junk.

Thanks again. Much obliged

 Alan

[quote user="PhilM"]That trial and error killing lines in hierarch.pm scared me.[/quote]

There's aboslutely nothing to be scared about if you keep a backup, really. And deleting lines (not editing them!) will only get Pegasus Mail to recreate them if it detects folders missing in there.

[quote user="PhilM"] I tried something else, and it worked.  I created two new folders, and then looked at the folder info for each, writing down the folder names, folnnnnn.*  Then I renamed the new ones (by adding $ to each extention), and renamed the old .pmm and .pmi folders to the new names.[/quote]

The only issue with creating new folders is that filter rules applying to the old ones won't work anymore because Pegasus Mail uses their (unique) internal ID's instead of human readable names, so if there are some you should get into their editor and check for "red lines" indicating missing folders. So you see there's always a "gotcha" ...

I take it then that when sending mail using another identity doesn't pick up these settings, that you have to actually be in the identity for it to work?

Well, I want the **arrival** of a new mail to trigger an action, but I don't want opening "New Mail", containing unread messages, to trigger the action.

> Im sorry if this is a repeated question, i'm afraid that I did not have
> much success searching the site for this answer.
>
> I have been using Pegasus version 4.31 for obviously quite some time
> with an alltel.net email address. Recently alltel converted their
> addresses to windstream.net. I have gone in and made what I thought
> were the correct changes and can recive my emails but cannot send
> emails. This is the error message I have received...I would appreciate
> any help and am sorry if I ommited any necessary details for this
> issue.
>
> Delivery has failed on the enclosed message for the following
>
> reasons reported either by the mail delivery system on the mail
>
> relay host or by the local TCP/IP transport module:
>
> 553 Authentication is required to send mail as
>
> <ffitch@windstream.net>

David Harris has implemented ESMTP AUTH CRAM-MD5 for WinPMail.  It does a SMTP authentication in accordance with RFCs 2554 and 2195.  It will also do the LOGIN and the strange MS AUTH=LOGIN.

Go to Tools | Internet  options | (Sending) SMTP, edit the SMTP configuration, select the "Security" tab and then select the SMTP Authorization option as specified by your ISP.  Most require the the second or third SMTP Authorization option

[quote user="PaulW"]

[quote user="Greenman"]Generally, I have noticed that even when creating a new message with an attachment, a 15MB message will usually translate to c.20MB when sent. I see this when sending messages from my home PC too (Windows Mail, ISP=BT sending via gmail).[/quote]

Generally a 15MB file wil convert to a 20MB attachment (about 1.3 size increase) because that's how base64 encoding coverts 8-bit into 7-bit for transmission.  See the wikipedia entry (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64) for more details.

[quote]I will ask 'staff' to forward the message without editing and see what happens. I am now sure after trying to replicate this that the original multiple messages must have been some sort of hiccup.[/quote]

Agreed.

Cheers to you to.

[/quote]

Thanks again, Paul.

I had misunderstood why the size of attachments was increased. I had not realised that the data was actually being converted. Another useful lesson from you people.

And, thus, when the mail message was 'bounced' to my gmail account, it was sent without any problems 'as is'.

This has been a very useful process. Enlightening for me and, I suspect, a little frustrating for you guys.

Thank you again for your help.

Would archiving messages by year help? Reason of course if the message store is not modified then two CD/DVD copies would be the backup just in case. The current year message store would be smaller or atleast within reason.

Not exactly what you are looking for, but may work in the longrun.

From what I can remember Thomas has written a good procedure for this, a search of this message board should be able to find the procedure.

Hello,

my experience with USB sticks are that if you buy a new one and it has problems, immediately return it and do not use it. There were also a lot of fakes on the markets, which had a real size  of only 512MB, but made Windows think successfully that the size was several GB. It also allowed Windows to copy data in that amount (built the Fat with the filenames, but all the data went into the toilet WITHOUT ANY ERROR MESSAGE WHILE COPYING).

There is one free utility specially for USB sticks which a big German Software magazine developed after they sent out a few hundred of those fake sticks to their users as gifts for subscribing to their magazine (and subsequently had to replace them all!).

 I run this tool on all my USB sticks when first purchasing them. It bypasses the wear leveling and caching of the USB stick and allows you to test every single sector on the USB stick. I would recommend to format the stick as Fat/Fat32 for testing, and only after first testing format to NTFS if so desired.

The program itself can be switched from German to English when started, but the web site is German only.

Here is the link to the website translated by google:

http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=de&js=n&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fsoftware%2Fdownload%2Fh2testw%2F50539&sl=de&tl=en&history_state0=&swap=1

Here is the original German link:

http://www.heise.de/software/download/h2testw/50539

Here is the link for directly  downloading the utility (which is a bit difficult to find):

http://www.heise.de/ct/Redaktion/bo/downloads/h2testw_1.4.zip

Definitely a must have in my tool kit.

Regards,

Pais

> I managed to crash Pegasus 4.x recently by trying to send two large
> image files (10MB). Message was that it was "filtering" I believe,
> but PMail just stalls.
>
> I moved all old files to another folder, reinstalled current release
> and have tried to reinstate the old file structure. No dice.
>
>  any advice for restoring my old file folders and filing trays?
> especially my address books.
>
>  Please let me know if you need any additional information to
> diagnose the problem.

Move all of the *.CNM files out of the new mail directory and try again.  It should now open normally.  You can then put the messages back one at a time until you find the problem message.  

It's probaby going to be a really large message.  If you are using content control then I'd recommend that you set a limit on the message size so you are not scanning these large files with encoded attachments.

1.    Use  Tools | Spam and content controls | Content control...

2.    Select and edit the control definition

3.    Select the "Message tests" tab.

4.    Enter 8000 in "Check at most this many bytes in each message"

I tried increasing it to 180 sec and it still conked out far short of full transfer.

Thank you aderoy for your kind attention.

This thread does not correspond to my standards of moderation. Therefore I prefer to solve the problem in a more suitable environment.

I'm a bit confused about why you have these folders and trays in your mailbox. I can only think that you created them temporarily whilst sorting your mail for archiving, then dragged the contents to identical folders in the archive mailbox.

Whatever the reason, you should definitely try to connect to your archive again and ensure everything exists happily. Connecting shouldn't in itself break anything. If it was broken it will display as broken, if it was fine it will display fine. Obviously, if it's broken or things are missing, you'll need to start the archiving process again.

You can then delete any empty folders in your primary mailbox. If you're worried about any of this, backup all mail folders before you even open Pegasus. Then, if you get into a mess, you're covered!

See this thread from 2 years ago on using a batch file to maintain several copies of your hierarch.??? file.

http://community.pmail.com/forums/post/1093.aspx

> Greetings:
>
>      First my new mail folder disappeared from my main folder preview
> area.  Now I cannot get it to appear at all when I click >>file>> read
> new mail.  I am not sure what happened or how I get back to the
> original settings wherein I open the program and my "my mailbox"
> folder and all other folders appear in the tray area.  Right now, the
> first folder is my copies to self.  Don't know what happened to the my
> mailbox stuff.
>

1.  Use Help | About Pegasus Mail | Info and note the HOME mail
    directory.

2.  Exit WinPMail.

3.  Go to the HOME mail directory and edit the state.pmj file.  Go
    to the [Folders] section and delete the line beginning with the
    equal sign (=).  Save and exit.