Thanks for the suggestions Thomas. I'm afraid I don't understand most of them, but I'll have my husband look at them and see if we can make this work.

Bev

you can use python or perl with their libraries to write a 'thin interface' that would show you sender, date and subject only. I could see programming a server somewhere to look at your imap email box and produce a list, the question is whether there is a link protocol within pegasus to fetch the important email.

Erik,

    Thank you very much, it worked...You don't know how much it was driving me nuts!!

Pita

I too was able to use the key combination described above successfully in single pane view.

I'm looking for a way to adjust the default column size for the window that opens when processing a FIND.  The default colums are too thin and I always have to adjust in order to review the results.  In addition all the columns seem to only allow me to adjust them maybe 1/4" or 1/2" at a time.  I have to repeatedly click on the column divider and pull it wider.  Any assistance would be appreciated.

You will also get the opening warning if MAILBOXM.LCK exists.

Unlike MAIMBOXP.LCK it is not erased when Pmail is closed properly.

Bob

Fixed it (hooray!)

The problem was that although I had created the new synonyms file with the changed address, and had copied it to the root of the PMAIL folder containing the mailboxes, I had not copied it to the default ..\Mercury\Mercury folder. Also, I had to stop and restart Mercury before the synonyms file was read properly. So it all works fine now.

Thanks, Thomas for your patience and help [Y]

Arrrghh! A word of CAUTION to anyone trying this work-around:

The size of the original SPAMBUST.DAT is 25K, with my additions I got past the approx. 32K limit of Pegasus' internal file editor. Unfortunately, it silently trunkates the file. Editing is disabled, but saving is not.

Using an external editor works just fine, of course, but can't be invoked from within Pegasus.

Cheers,
Erik 

Thomas,

That sounds good!

I'd just like to stress that automatic whitelisting seems to work well for me - with the one exception that I don't want to be whitelisted myself...

Cheers,
Erik
 

It is possible to use an expression filtering rule to check the *X-UC-Weight* setting in the header of emails and automatically forward those with this header to the is_spam account on your system.  You can then use the same rule to file the messages wherever you want.

Thanks Thomas!

In your example, sure, that will throw the parser for a loop.  However, if one has to choose between an algorithm that is less than perfect and one that is just plain outright error-prone, if those are the only two choices, then doesn't it make logical sense to use the one that statistically will result in the least amount of errors (even if it isn't perfect)?

Finding a rogue "From ???@??? " in the body text of a message is going to be FAR less likely to occur than in messages with "from today" or "From everyone" or the other millions of other possible english phrases that now do result in a corrupted PMG index file being created, as my own experience showed me.

In any case, I know how to fix my own MBX files, to get my messages out and into a normal Pegasus Mail folder, so I'm going to do that and then never use the MBX format in Pegasus Mail again.   I just didn't realize Pegasus was not actually able to properly create a PGM index file from scanning a MBX file, like Thunderbird is able to create its index MSF file directly from a local folder (mbox file), until yesterday; it was like someone sucker punched me in the gut, having used Pegasus Mail since 1995 and never realizing this fact.

When starting Pmail for a particular user I get:

OLE error window.. no error number - OK

then

OLE Error - unable to access file - OK

I recreated a new mailbox and set it up and still get the error message.  This happens from more that one workstation.

Novell network, Windows Xp and Pmail ver 4.41 

Thanks,

Jerry Gunn

Metamora Township High School 

After having searched the web I can tell you that neither aol nor hotmail have a pop3 server, yahoo has one but you have to activate the option (I don't know how I don't use it).

For aol the only thing you can do if you want to use Pegasus Mail is to use IMAP (Tools/IMAP profiles), for hotmail you've 3 solutions, retrieve your mail via http (commonly called webmail) or to use outlook express or TB with an extension (webmail-hotmail).

Conclusion : you can use Pegasus Mail with your yahoo account only 

Thomas, believe it or not, it seems the upgrade did the trick. I upgraded and now I've had two test messages reaching addresses that did not get my mail this afternoon.

What's going on -- beats me. But thanks for your help. It's a great program and I suppose my next donation is overdue. I'll have to see to that.

Jaakko

 

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Are there any diagnostics I can run or any logs Pegasus generates which may help identify the cause?

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None that I can think of.  The only reason I know of that would cause a message not to be found in a folder is that it really is the folder but it's not displaying where you thing it should be displaying.  

You sir, are my hero.

Now i remember why i had left my local printer as default. It had accidentally gotten changed to the network printer.

makes perfect sense.

 thank you!
 

Thank you for the explanation.

I did go in to the authentication settings (Internet mail options>sending(smtp)>security and under SMTP Authentication I choise the 2nd option and put in my user name and password. When I tried to send mail I received this message:

[*] Connection established to 207.69.189.203
>> 0093 220-elasmtp-curtail.atl.sa.earthlink.net ESMTP Exim 4.67 #1 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:12:34 -0500
>> 0079 220-NO UCE.  EarthLink does not authorize the use of its computers or network
>> 0070 220 equipment to accept, transmit, or distribute unsolicited e-mail.
<< 0022 EHLO [192.168.1.101]
>> 0081 250-elasmtp-curtail.atl.sa.earthlink.net Hello [192.168.1.101] [24.136.136.144]
>> 0019 250-SIZE 14680064
>> 0016 250-PIPELINING
>> 0031 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN CRAM-MD5
>> 0014 250-STARTTLS
>> 0010 250 HELP
<< 0015 AUTH CRAM-MD5
>> 0082 334 PDI0ODA0LjEyMDA5NTcxNTVAZWxhc210cC1jdXJ0YWlsLmF0bC5zYS5lYXJ0aGxpbmsubmV0Pg==
<< 0058 bXVsZGVycyBjMjVhMzJiYmE1ZTU2MTcxN2QzMjgxYzQ1NjIyMDE5Ng==

Thomas,

Thanks, I have chosen the first option under authentication. Options 2 & 3 did not help, so I'll see how #1 functions. I have also enabled session logging and will post it when I encounter any more problems.

Sincerely,

Bob Mulder

Hooray, it worked!!! I am now sending as well as receiving!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you ---- and I will keep these instructions just in case!!

 Sue