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Hi John,

Did you set - for every identity separate - the Internet options? You can find them under Tools - Internet options...
So you select ie. Identity 'Joe' and you change the Internet options and the settings (I wrote earlier) under Tools - Options... - General settings - Basic settings

It isn't possible to set up a "To" column in the New and Read inboxes.

Succes.

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Hi, I am subscribed to the Webcomic/blog combination

nicky510.com . In the Jan. 1 edition a paragraph starting with "A ride

on the Futurama of General Motors" is truncated, with the last

(truncated) sentence being 'I liked 1' A look at the 'raw view' of the

Email reveals the rest of the paragraph. I find this problem when using

Pegasus 4.41 as well as 4.5. IE renders the Email the same as Opera.

The whole paragraph is a single line of over 1000 characters and a line in a email message must be no longer than 1000 characters including the carriage return and line feed.  The email clients that use a web browser tio view the mail do not have any problem but a RFC compliant mail client will in many cases. 

Tell the people sending you the message to make sure that none of their lines exceed this line length and you'll not have the problem.

 

RFC 2822                Internet Message Format               April 2001
2.1.1. Line Length Limits

There are two limits that this standard places on the number of
characters in a line. Each line of characters MUST be no more than
998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding
the CRLF.

The 998 character limit is due to limitations in many implementations
which send, receive, or store Internet Message Format messages that
simply cannot handle more than 998 characters on a line. Receiving
implementations would do well to handle an arbitrarily large number
of characters in a line for robustness sake. However, there are so
many implementations which (in compliance with the transport
requirements of [RFC2821]) do not accept messages containing more
than 1000 character including the CR and LF per line, it is important
for implementations not to create such messages.

The more conservative 78 character recommendation is to accommodate
the many implementations of user interfaces that display these
messages which may truncate, or disastrously wrap, the display of
more than 78 characters per line, in spite of the fact that such
implementations are non-conformant to the intent of this
specification (and that of [RFC2821] if they actually cause
information to be lost). Again, even though this limitation is put on
messages, it is encumbant upon implementations which display messages
to handle an arbitrarily large number of characters in a line
(certainly at least up to the 998 character limit) for the sake of
robustness.


 

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Thomas R. Stephenson posted Jan 7 '09 at 4:44 pm

[quote user="SteelCurtain67"]

Just a bump to see if someone can help.  I am sure someone must know how to set this to work.  Or if no one knows is there another help source?

This type of query normally will just get a negative type answer.  No answer generally means that one one knows a solution to your problem or they do not understand the problem. You are better off to restate the question. 

As to the other help sources there is also the PM-win mailing list and you will get to many users that are not in the community.  There is also the WinPMail-support@pmail.gen.nz and tech-support@pmail.gen.nz but you'll get the same Pegasus Mail support people you get here.

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Hello All,

please apologize when my issue has already been solved somewhere, but I just did not find anything.

(I am running Pegasus Mail v 4.41 (Win32) Jul 16, 2006, standalone)

I just solved a problem which I had when being re-creating lost mailboxes in PM therefore I checked
some of the setup files. I wondering about some entries in the pmail.ini file regarding my additional
mailboxes which are located at different providers. F.e.:

Directory to place incoming POP3 mail     = G:\PMAIL\MAIL\[default user]
Transport control word                    = 67332
SMTP relay host for outgoing mail         = smtp [smtp server of default user]
search mask to locate outgoing messages   = G:\PMAIL\MAIL\[default user]\*.PMX
Alternative From: field for message       =  [mail address of default user]

Although sending and receiving mails is working fine with all addresses I do not know how these
entries have been created , resp. have not been updated and overwritten. Although whether this
could cause any problems.

Thank you very much in advance for your kind support!

Regards, I.J.

By the way: I am very glad to hear that D.H. will continue. I was seriously sad when I heard he would
stop PM!

 

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gordonwebs posted Dec 26 '08 at 5:09 am

Thank you for your help. I found Mercury specified as a UDG (using pcconfig.exe - as you suggested) and deleted it.

I am now able to send out e-mails with Pegasus Mail again.

I would still like to use Mercury Win32 at some later time to facilitate the testing of sending e-mails from a web application I am creating  on my home on which I have the apache server running, so I expect to be back with more posts on this forum.

 

 

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Thomas R. Stephenson posted Dec 25 '08 at 7:41 pm

> I want to move Pegasus to a new machine (ZZ), leaving all the storage
> on the old machine (JJ).  I copied the program directory to the new
> machine and used PCONFIG to tell it that the mailboxes were in
> \\JJ\E$\MAIL (PMAIL.CFG confirms this was successful).  When I start
> Pegasus on the new machine with "-i vefatica" (who has a mailbox in
> \\JJ\E$\MAIL) it comes up like a new install, creating the default
> files in \\JJ\E$\MAIL, and not recognizing my user specification.  What
> am I doing wrong?  Thanks.

Should have used \\JJ\E$\MAIL\~n (or ~8) so that this would be a uulti-user setup.

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[quote user="eug4not"]

Hi,

Sometimes I receive Emails having remote-linked graphcs. I know how to instruct Pegasus to down-load the remote-linked graphics to complete the rendition of the email and to print it in a browser. I need to know how to forward the Email to another party with the remote-linked graphics included.

Either forward it as an attachment to a new message or forward it without editing.   In either case the message format with included URLs is retained.

Sincerely,

Ben H. Tongue 

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I managed to get Pegasus running again after I killed runddl32.exe. But

I do not know which program used this dll. Anybody any idea what

program is incompatibel with Pegasus and uses rundll32.exe? Or does

anyone know how to see which program called this dll?

The does exactly what it says, it runs a dll as a program.  You can checkout for more details but if this is called by WinPMail calling a Windows function and it crashes then WinPMail will be closed by the OS to restore the system.  This was what was happening with Acrobat calling the shell with invalid parameters when WinPMail asked the OS to add an attachment.  Obviously Acrobat does things by sitting between the programs and the OS.
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Clutch posted Dec 22 '08 at 9:30 am

That may be working.  I'll watch the folder I'm shunting the spam into to see if I get things I didn't expect in there.

 
Edited follow up: 

Working fine.  I notice the column that has normally has the Date: field is replaced by the Delivery-Date when the file is moved making the date column of message display non-blank.  Works, got this bit of recurring  spam out of my inbox.

 

Thanks,

Clutch 

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Thomas R. Stephenson posted Dec 20 '08 at 8:13 pm

[quote user="Goody"]

I am trying out Pegasus as a possible client from TheBat which is driving me nuts with bugs.  When receiving HTML (from vendors) I have to manually select  images in the message to be downloaded. Selected messages will not download images and will stay on the preview screen. I have to go to another folder to clear the screen.  When coming back to the previous message that I tried to load images from, it is still has not loaded images and again will sit there until I switch views. 

1. What should I check to see why the images are not downloading?

Not sure why the images are not downloading, could be they are being blocked.

2. Why does the message remain in the preview area even though I have selected a new message in the same directory?

Again not sure what yuo are seeing  since when I select the next message it displays.  The is one thing I would check though.  Got to Tools | Options | Advanced and set the winsock to load always.

3. How can I load images automatically without manual intervention ?

Tools | Options | Message reader and selection the option you want

From the help:

Handling remote-linked graphics in incoming mail

An increasing number of mail messages arriving in your mailbox are likely to be HTML  messages containing graphics. In a perfect world, all these messages would be what is known as MHTML messages, or messages using specially constructed HTML data that allows any graphics referenced in the message to be contained in the message as well. Unfortunately, laziness and ignorance on the part of many sites generating these messages means that a significant number of them will not be formatted correctly, but will contain remote graphic links - that is, links that will require your mail program to establish a connection to a remote site to retrieve the graphics they represent.

Remote-linked graphics are a really bad thing, for two key reasons: the first is that they mean the message can only be viewed correctly when you are online: if you want to view the message while you're away from an Internet link, you typically will not be able to see it in its correct form. By contrast, properly-packaged MHTML messages are always viewable and require no further connection or waste of bandwidth to retrieve their graphics.

Much more seriously, though, remote-linked graphics present an insidious and extremely dangerous opportunity for unscrupulous senders to invade your privacy: by giving the remote link a few simple characteristics, it is possible for the sender to gain a considerable amount of information about anyone who downloads the graphics as they read the message. The information that can be derived includes: the fact that you have read the message; the time and date you read the message; how often you read it; whether you forwarded it to someone else; your computer's IP address; your geographical location (certainly your city location, but potentially down to the street level). Over time, this information can be tracked to build a profile of your online behaviour and the type of mail you read. And just in case you didn't get it the first time, all this information can be derived simply because when you read the message, your mail program retrieved the remote-linked graphics it contained.

Here at Pegasus Mail, we think remote-linked graphics in e-mail are a serious and much under-rated security threat: for this reason, Pegasus Mail will *never* automatically download any remote-linked graphics in an e-mail message unless you have specifically told it to do so. We accept that there are some occasions where you know the sender of the message and can be fairly sure of that person's integrity, or where you have decided that the risks are acceptable; in such cases, Pegasus Mail allows you to right-click the message and choose Show pictures, at which point it will go away and retrieve any remote-linked graphics it contains (note that graphics in proper MHTML messages are always displayed correctly and automatically, and entail no privacy risks). You can also indicate that certain senders are always to be trusted, and that Pegasus Mail can automatically download remote-linked graphics in mail from those senders if it senses that you are online.

To indicate that a particular sender's remote-linked graphics should be downloaded automatically, click the Exceptions button in the Display remote-linked graphics... control group on this page and add the address of the sender in the dialog that opens. From the time you do this, Pegasus Mail will automatically behave as if you have right-clicked the message and chosen Show pictures every time it displays messages from that sender.

Automatically if a connection exists
  Rather against our better judgment, we have allowed ourselves to be persuaded to add a setting that tells Pegasus Mail it should always attempt to display remote-linked graphics in any message, if it detects that an Internet connection exists. We recommend in the strongest terms that you think very hard before enabling this option - we are not being completely paranoid about this, you really *do* expose yourself to severe invasion of privacy by doing so. You have been warned.

Goody

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[quote user="Eshtaol"]

To be honest I do not see that file in the original copy of 4.41 on my pc yet the help files are there.

Any chance it's called something else?

Because of the size of the mail program I had to place in a zip and open in the laptop when transfering.

As I said I looked in the original  copy and cannot find  *.hlp in the program.

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I just checked in w32-450-pb1.exe and there are 10 .hlp files in it. w32-441.exe also has 10.

I don't know where you were looking but the 4.50 beta distribution as well as the 4.41 distribution certainly have the help files in them.

 

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tsar posted Dec 29 '08 at 11:03 am

Thanks for this reply...

I didn't make any new folders... the folders are just mixed up.  

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Matthijs Rozema posted Dec 19 '08 at 9:45 pm

Solved! Well, sort of.

 I returned the Iomega NAS, got a Philips NAS, and had the whole thing set up in 20 minutes. 

 It seems this problem was simply caused by the way the Iomega handles the sharing, and Pegasus somehow choked on it.

Interestingly, if you now type "pegasus mail iomega" into google, this thread comes up. [:)]

 Thank you Thomas R. Stephenson and dkocmoud  for all your time on this matter!

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weamish posted Dec 14 '08 at 8:53 pm

Is there any way to stop the popup dialog box when there's a network error? It can get pretty annoying, stealing focus from other apps etc. Thanks!

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My settings are use URLPROXY and with Opera as my browser. I now messed 
around with about 8 different versions of those options. The only ones 
that did not crash was when I had only "Find automatically" on and let 
IE start (with or without the IE malformed option). IE never opened the 
page though, just sat there for ages so it could be IE got crap sent as 
well.

This is probably the problem.  The URL proxy should not be used, it's only there for backward compatibility.  Turn it off and only use either "Find browser automatically" or specify the command line option you need to start the browser. 

I do not know why IE did not open though and since you did not provide a real URL I can't test it.  That said I've had no problems with long URLs and Firefox, even the ones that were so long I had to select them manually.

 

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