[quote user="Greenman"]We each have a choice in the matter. If you don't make the attempt to educate someone, then what's the point of the forum? If someone persists in their troll-like ways, then that is the point at which they will be ignored.[/quote]
Oh yes, we certainly do, but on reading the initial post, I just didn't think there would be much point in undertaking such an attempt. Seems like I was wrong. And I'm glad too :-)
To return to the topic, partly on account of ModernMan's reply, I agree that the default setting had better be changed, and as far as I'm concerned, the same applies to the default copy-to-self setting in Tools | Options | Messages and replies, which I believe should be "On".
IIRC, the system uses the ~a to identify the current location so you could put the wav file in the home mail directory and use the ~a.
Here's some more information about substitutions and it looks like my memory is faulty. ;-)
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 ~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 ~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.
1. My Printer def is with default Windows drivers for the HP4L,
2. Is your printer (network) on a Print Server such as LinkSys or NetGear or is it just a share network printer?
Nowadays my printer is a shared printer hooked to one of the systems on the local lan. At work, my printers were networked and in some cases the default printer was not even in the same state. My personal default printer though was a HP 4si on one of the corporate print servers (generally these were Windows servers) and the lan being down caused me no problems at all.
I
ask as, if I follow you logic out all the way, I would think the
NetGear drivers could effect this. But I'm not buying because I've had
same printer and print server for over 10 years, and was not getting
this problem with PMail versions 3.x. Problem only started when I went
to PMail 4.x versions. That logic points to a flaw in the PMail.
I doubt this since the way that PMail checks how to display the fonts has not really changed in years, it simply asks the printer driver via a windows call. The older printer drivers very seldom, if ever, checked to see if the printer was on line when asked how to display the fonts. Newer ones, especially HP seem to do this more often. FWIW, I've never had any experience with a dedicated hardware printer server.
I don't follow the Pegasus Mail discussions that much since I'm more like Link than Neo (Matrix) thus I follow more closely the Mercury threads, but I'd like to read up on your case if I may. What are the threads you're referring to?
Marco, Could it be related to some properties which maybe were accidentally assigned to your "New mail" (inbox) folder (right mouse button) such as "... open filter set" etc.? That's the part I would check. Well, wild guess. Maybe someone else might know more ... Thomas
I don't use any applications as described. I did some searching and it seems to me like you need extra software installed to give a Windows application the always on top feature.
I closed Pegasus and started it again and it behaved the same way. I showed a co-worker the behaviour, closed Pegasus (the same way as the first time) opened it again to show that it remained as always on top and it wasn't always on top any more.
Thanks all I have Pegasus working by emptying the queue, Now I have all these PMX etc files in my recylce bin. I had 2 envelopes with all my e-mails saved before the deletes. What are might their names be (they were called messages and old) so I can restore them and recover my old YAHOO e-mails?
The group has been great and patient with a NEWBIE.