Awesome! It worked!

Thank you!!! 

> Thanks to Thomas' replies I went a bit deeper into what PMail can, and
> now am using Multipop to at least check and download the mail of
> different mailboxes (located also on different servers).
>
> Two things though.
>
> 1)  I have more boxes than the Multipop window long is and it will not
>     let me make the window longer, so I have to scroll.  Any way how to
>     make it longer?

Not without rewriting the extension and that's something you'll have to do yourself.

>
> 2)  The key question. Multipop is already handling several mailboxes.
>     PMail can also make distribution lists visible for all users. Given
>     that, should not it be easy to extend these functions with options
>     like:

>     - "show mailboxes defined in Multipop on a toolbar", and,
>     - "make toolbar visible for all users"?

it you know how to write and extension, and I do not, this may be possible.  The real point is that there is another application available to do this and, Mercury/32.  It's easy, fast and quick to run Mercury/32 and forget about using an outdated and no longer supported Pegasus Mail extension.

>
> If so, double-clicking the mailbox should switch to that user, and I
> have my easy switch between users. Can that be done with some simple
> script?

The switch between users is going away, caused to many support problems and there is of course the mail security problem. You can already run as many instances of Pegasus Mail as you want if allowed by the postmaster so this should be no problem.

>
> Hoping for a brilliant and positive answer

You got it.  Dump MultiPOP and go to Mercury/32.  ;-)

>
> McDuff

I have always assumed that the address in Tools/Internet Options/General was to enable Pegasus to download the correct mail from my ISP as well as putting the "From" address on the message.

Hey Presto!  I have taken your advice and my emails now appear as I wanted.  Shows the value of this forum!!

 Many thanks indeed.

I have noticed a problem with forwards and replys that have 

"Custom headers for this message" under Special F9.   Are they

there? When the lines in the custom headers

are removed the mail goes through in my situation. 

Randy Wilson 

[quote user="Marcel"]

Hi Thomas

That was brilliant, I followed your advice and the second identity now works. Thanks for the quick reply. I have one remaining problem: this has come about because I have had to back-up PMail onto DVD's before getting rid of Windows 2000 and installing XP. So now I have a new installation of Pegasus on XP and the old Pegasus files and info on four back-up DVD's. However I would like to either open certain of the old files i.e. folders, addresses and the emails that were  in place before the back-up or transfer them back onto the new Pegasus installation running under XP. The Pegasus folders and files seem to be duplicated on  all four back-up DVD's and include folders called Defaults, Mail, Resource and about 117 other files. So I would be very pleased if you could advise me how to access this information or indeed transfer it back onto the new Pegasus.

Thank you

Marcel 

[/quote]

Restore these files and folders to a directory on your local hard drive called "ARCHIVE" and then point at it using "Add mailbox to list".

1.  Open the folder listing.  Go to the menu "Folders" next to "Tools".

2.  Use  "Add mailbox to list", enter C:\Archive as the path, Archive as
    the name.





 

I have simply moved the entire directory c:\pmail and all subdirectories around from desktop to laptop and back. works fine

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