I believe I figured out what was going on. A detail I failed to mention was that as I moved the messages I also deleted the old folder because it was no longer used. I think I may have inadvertantly deleted the new folder while attempting to delete the old one. As you suggested I stopped my Trend Micro AV and tried moving messages and it worked fine. At the same time I decided to not delete the old folder until later. I moved messages from many folders with no consequence. Even after deleting the old folders later there was still no problem. I restarted the AV and still had no problems.

I would recommend to the programmers of Pegasus to put the name of the folder in the caution about deleting a folder so the user knows exactly which folder they are deleting. Thank you very much for your support and input.

Wendel 

Ttsar, I have also experienced this problem. It appears to be related to HTML messages. I have found that by disabling BearHTML, at lot of these types of problems go away (see my currently active post on Pmail and BearHTML).

Thanks., SJS.

Hi Ellie/Thomas (David?)

I'm a member of a number of Yahoo groups and have the same problem. I'm aware of what the RFCs say about this but, as a software developer myself who has had to write software to implement certain RFCs, I'm also aware of Postel's Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle). This says that an application authors should:

Be conservative in what you do; be liberal in what you accept from others.

In other words, when you're sending a message in SMTP format you should strictly adhere to the rules that are stated in the RFC (this is where many, many modern email clients and web based apps break the rules) however, when you're receiving a message supposedly in SMTP format, you should accept that the rules may be broken and try to cope with them. It is this latter part where Pegasus falls down and, despite having been a user of Pegasus for 15 years or so (including making a couple of, albeit relatively small, contributions to its development), it is this part that (along with a couple of others) is causing me to seriously assess whether I should change to use a different email client. In fact I have been assessing Thunderbird recently as it now seems to have all the features I generally use in Pegasus, as well as an extension to password protect Profiles (albeit a relatively simple one, but that is adequate for my needs).

The other issue that is causing me grief is the handling of hyperlinks when messages are read as plain text and configured to have long lines reformatted. The reformatting breaks the hyperklinks. Thunderbird doesn't seem to have this problem, and nor does Outlook, but whenever an email message contains hyperlinks longer than the width of my message reader window I have to toggle the "Reformat long lines" option in order for the whole hyperlink to be recognised as a hyperlink. Even then, it doesn't always work; I have received numerous emails where a hyperlink is recognised and highlighted (up until the end of the reformatted line) in Pegasus but, when I toggle the "Reformat long lines" option, the hyperlink is no longer highlighted and clickabe.

Anyway, the second issue is off topic here (I'll search for it elsewhere) but the first issue is a nuisance that could be avoided if Postel's Law was followed in Pegasus.

Thanks for your time.

John

I joined the forum for an answer to this specific question.  Unfortunately, either this option was not included in Versions 4.41 and 4.51 or I am just not able to locate any such check box.

Please, if you will be so kind, could you direct me to a solution to this problem.

Thank you.

Thank you immensely!  Problem solved....you have my gratitude!

Davidp54

Hello C A Lane,

Therefore you can use the function Mailmerge. New message - tab Merge
Take a look at:
http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pegasusmail.nl%2Ftip45.php&sl=nl&tl=en&history_state0=

[quote user="radiorichard"]

Not sure if this is a Pegasus problem but a process of elimination is pushing me that way.

Some attachments sent with emails are getting deleted and replaced with a text message along the lines of:

This section of the message has been deleted. It originally contained the following data:

Content type: application/msword

Content description: (None)

Filename: Q9010903 - Community Radio Special Mobile Myriad System.doc

This seems to happen only with filenames containing hyphens ('-') and getting senders to resend with the hyphen removed always seems to succeed. For some time I thought this was being done by my ISP, but having tried Thunderbird to download exactly the same messages and attachments on the same connection I now think it's a Pegasus 'feature' - but I can't find a setting to turn it off. I don't want to change to another email program though - I'm a big fan of Pegasus!

Anybody any suggestions here?

 [/quote]

Hi folks:

I did a clean-up of my computer and a registry cleaning, and since then my Spamhalter isn't functioning, ie all my spam ends up in the in-box.

Also, when I try to move my spam to the spam folder to try and reactivate the 'learning' process, it won't move.  The program just dings and flickers and nothing else happens.  I can move all other mail into any other folder.

Can anyone guess what I fouled up, and set me on the course to fixing it?

TIIA,

~marilyn

[quote user="cwickstrom"]

Arghh!!!  I just spent a couple hours updating and adding addresses to my pmail address book.  I had one left to go but I stopped for a minute, closed the mailbox, checked for new mail, and then reopened the mailbox.  80% of my addresses had duplicated themselves, including the ones I had just edited!  As far as I know, my only recourse is to go back to my original book again and reedit everything.  Unfortunately, I'm afraid the same thing will happen again when I try again.  This is VERY aggravating because I really don't have the time to be doing this.

 WHY  IS PEGASUS DUPLICATING MY ADDRESSES?

For some reason the index got messed up.  You can upgrade to PB1 where there is a re-index function or you can extract the addressbook and re-import to rebuild the index.  As to why, I really do not know but I suspect you have something (a-v software) interfering with WinPMail access to it's files.

[/quote]

[quote user="rdoherty"]

It occurs to me that one method of accomplishing what you wanted to do, would be to look for .PMI files without companion .PMM files.  In your case, that would have identified the missing folder and would probably accomplish the same if the situation is the result of an anti-virus program deleting a PMM file.  Since the PMI file would not have viral content (spurious or real) it should survive interference by the AV program quite nicely.

At any rate, I'm glad you got your folder back!![/quote]

Thanks Bob.

The weird thing is that the AV never said it found a virus.

Gone now anyway.

Ellie

I'm setting up Pegasus on my widescreen laptop. I'm using multiple identities, however when I go to set up the internet options for an identity I cannot see everything in the box. I know there is something regarding Managing multiple identities in the Receiving (POP). Also the buttons to the side I can only see the edge, no clue what they are for.  This has happened for other programs though never one that I really needed to see what is there.

Thanks, Ann

Happy new year all!

I've trawled the FAQ's and these forums without success. Can somebody tell me what I need to do to reinstate the full column headings when viewing any mailbox in the Three-pane option.

If I disable the Preview Mode and view the long list I have all column headers displayed... Attachments/From/Subject/Date&Time/Size.

 If I view in preview mode I only get th Attachment/From Columns.

 I've tried re-sizing the field headers but can never get to the rightmost border of the "From" Column to be able to drag it across.

 Any pointers please?

 Thanks.

 Gareth
Pembroke School

See my package in the downloads area that allows OpenOffice to send mail via Pegasus Mail. The url is:

http://community.pmail.com/files/folders/pegadd/entry15108.aspx

 The installation requires one program in OpenOffice to be replaced.See the documentation included in this zip file.

Martin

Hi Peggy,

Thanks for your reply. I am glad to hear that I am not the only problem who sees this type of attachment name. I do agree that it is more of an inconvenience than anything else. I like to use Pegasus to catalogue my emails and their attachments, and it would be nice to be able to download my email, open an email and click on the attachment and have the correct attachment name displayed without first saving it a second time to my hard drive.

If anyone has seen this problem and found a way around the inconvenience, I would be grateful for your input.

 Thanks again, Tony.

1. On the server I gave domain and local users list and

   create rights. (Once the mail has been dropped in the Archive I don't

   want anyone but the administrator to be able to view emails.)

Did I do something wrong?

Since the users do not have read access to the public folder they also can't read the pmfolder.id file to read the foldername.  The fallback is to display the directory name.   You might try giving all the users read access to this file and see if this fixes the problem.

First demark under Tools - Options... - General settings - Basic settings: 'Save the Pegasus Mail desktop state between sessions'.
Close Pegasus Mail, start it and take care the Three-pane window is not maximised.
Make your settings, close Pegasus Mail, start it again maximise the Three-pane window and mark Save the Pegasus Mail desktop state between sessions.

Succes.

[quote user="malw"]

An update...

When I look at the 101 files in the queue with a text editor the messages created by Mercury have a format:

$$
T test 2 pm
From: "Malcolm Warden" <malcolm@xxxxx.co.uk>
To: malcolm@xxxx.net
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:58:49 -0000
etc
etc

Messages sent from Pegasus have a format:

From: "Malcolm Warden" <malcolm@xxxxx.co.uk>

To: malcolm@xxxx.net

Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:58:49 -0000
etc
etc

Adding the two lines

$$

T test 2 pm

to the 101 file for a message that has been stuck all day causes it to be processed.

What have I misconfigured that has stopped Pegasus from placing those first two lines in the 101 files?

The Mercury UDG in the Pegasus Mail directory.  Use pconfig.exe from the WinPMail program directory and open the MERCURY user defined gateway.  The UDG should have a line specifying the use og glue headers like this:

Simple message headers? :  'Glue' headers 

TIA

Malcolm

I had the same problem after upgrading from 4.41 to 4.52 and ran pconfig.exe.

I selected "Standalone configuration" by hitting enter and this displayed the following about my mailbox locations (home and new)

c:\Pmail\mail\~N

I changed the ~N to Admin and it worked no problem.

Good luck

AV is good when any method of introducing files to your system occurs, not just mail. So AV also saves you from downloads via Web, FTP, IM, memory sticks, camera cards, and MP3 devices etc.

BTW you can use Virscan as a kind of AV, by using the DenyExtensions option in Virscan.ini to completely ban extension type(s)

Martin