[quote user="Bob"]Sometimes my e-mails to a neighborhood Yahoo group get sent back

because it says that it contains HTML text. How do I stop that from

happening?
[/quote]

Make sure that "Rich text" is not selected when you send the message.  This rich text can be selected automatically when you paste non-ASCII text into the message so yuo need to be careful or the message may not be readable..   

This multi-monitor bug has bugged me for years, through multiple versions of PMail, under Win2K, WinXP and Win7.

At present, I typically run PMail on a ThinkPad X40 supporting 2 or 3 monitors with Win7.  Granted, I have fudged the Win7 to run with an XDDM display driver on the Intel 8255 graphics, but PMail has always seemed insensitive tof a multi-monitor environment, even under Win2k and WinXP.

For example, when spell-checking an email draft with PMail on the secondary monitor, the "Spell Check has finished, would you like to try again for the top?" window always appears on the primary monitor, beyond the PMail window which is limited to the secondary display.  Sometimes, my attention is focused on PMail on the secondary monitor; I do not see the inquiring window which has popped up on the primary monitor.  So, I keep clicking the spell check window to implement my last spelling correction.  With each additional click, PMail seems to produce an additional "finished ....   again from the top?" query window, each over-layed on the prior.  When this happens, clicking in the "finished ...  again from the top window", dispatches the top window, only to reveal an identical under-laying window, to the depth equal to the number of redundant clicks in the Spell Check window.

In folder view, a similar multi-monitor bug appears.  For example, when PMail is in folder view on the secondary monitor, clicking to move a folder generates the target window on the primary monitor, again beyond the PMail window on the secondary monitor.

In other words, some actions evoke subsidiary windows on the primary monitor, even when PMail is running on the secondary or tertiary monitor.

 Also, when stared, PMail appears on the monitor from which it was last closed.  For example, after PMail is closed on the secondary or tertiary monitor, restarting PMail evokes PMail on the secondary or tertiary monitor, even if the system no longer has a secondary or tertiary monitor.

As stated above, at my desk, my  ThinkPad X40 generally supports two or three monitors.  Sometimes, I undock my ThinkPad and take it on the road, so to speak.  When starting PMail with my ThinkPad undocked, PMail still starts on the secondary or tertiary monitor--if previously closed from the secondary or tertiary monitor--even when the undocked ThinkPan has only one monitor.  This means that starting PMail on my undocked ThinkPad evokes no change to my primary display, the only display in my undocked configuration.  It appears that PMail fails to start.  In fact, PMail is trying to appear on a non-existant secondary or tertiary monitor.  With Win7, it is reasonably easy to shift wayward PMail to single primary LED display via keyboard shortcuts.

I wish that PMail would attempt to display itself on the secondary or tertiary monitor, only when the system actually contains a secondary or tetiary display.

Perhaps someone else has some boilerplate they can paste with the "real answer", but this is usually caused by path issues -- when you set it up on the server, you probably set it up to use "C:". The initial setup WGUIDE.HLP has the following paragraph about network setup:

4: WinPMail will ask you for a mailbox directory - a place where it should store all your mail-related files. You must provide a path to a directory on a shared volume that all your mail users can access. It is important that all your mail users see this directory using the same drive letter - you cannot have one user see it as drive F: while another sees it as drive G:. WinPMail will create a subdirectory in the location you supply for each person who uses the program.

You don't have to use a mapped drive letter, you can use a UNC path (i.e. something like \\SERVER\PMail where "PMail" is the share-name on the server). You can change this in your current setup by opening a DOS prompt, changing to the shared folder on the server, and running PCONFIG.

Oh yes, thank you!

I have been evaluating Pegasus to replace Thunderbird and while I like what I see working, there are some things that are so frustrating.

I have been cleaning up some of my IMAP folders, deleting old messages, etc.   I go thru a folder of some 600 messages looking for old ones I do not need any more.  I have the "move to Trash on delete" option selected.  When I see several consecutive messages I can delete at once I shift-select them and hit delete.  Sometimes (not always) Pegasus doesn't stop at the end of the selection but moves all the messages in the folder to the Trash.  Since it is not particular fast about doing this (1 msg moved per second)  I can see the messages counts going down in my folder and the count going up in Trash.

Sometimes I can hit the STOP button and it will quit.  Then I have to go into Trash and pull back out the things I did not want deleted.
 

Just a few more things for the record.

Opening the folder for the second time took 7 hours, same as the first time.  

Splitting it into smaller parts was fast--roughly a half hour to do all the parts.

Also, in my first post I said that peak memory usage opening the folder

went to about 1GB but now I realize that wasn't so. This time which was

right after a reboot it went to just 324MB.  (The first time, peak

memory was already at 1GB because of some prior process.)  

Many thanks for all of the help.

[quote user="Angus Scott-Fleming"]Second, by the time you reach 10,000 writes, a replacement flash drive will be included free with your next cup of coffeee at Starbucks.[/quote]

My first thought is "640k ought to be enough for anyone!" (Often accredited to Bill Gates, but no one is sure..) Funny how these days, M$ OSes always want you to install MORE RAM.. Even 4Gigs is quickly going to be too little..

Anyhow, to the O.P. (If you're still looking for suggestions..): Have you considered using the memstick as a mailserver instead? When you're home, plug it in and have PMail "sent" mail to it to be queued (as well as "download" any incoming mail). Then when you're at the Inet cafe, switch the server to send and collect queued mail. It really isn't that much different than in the old days when Inet links were so expensive, many smaller companies had LAN's that would only dial out to the Inet a few times a day to do mail transfers in batches. Only in this case, you're physically moving the location of the mailserver to a place you can connect. This way, the mailserver doesn't even need to sync with anything, it's entirely self-contained, and can delete it's queue files once mail is dispatched.

Happy Holidays,

C. M.

If you run a real time virus checker and the messages had a virus or something your checker thought was a virus that could cause this kind of behavior.

Hello All

Just seen the light and for once it wasn't a train coming. For some reason although I am able to access my network drive (F: and up), when running the PMail NDS config PMail said it was unable to access the mailbox.  When I navigated to the SYS/ in explorer, explorer said I had insufficient rights.  The fix was to disconnect drive F: in the NW client and remap the drive using the XP drive mapping tool ( ie; right click and map - NOT the Netware mapping).  Hope this helps someone else.

Many thanks for your replies

TTFN 

Thanks all!

The smtp is no problem, our mailserver keeps it inboard anyway, the filtering is a good idea.

I've done some more looking into this and discovered that once-upon-a-time Thunderbird .

Because TBird uses password encryption by default, the solution was to create a user-settable "use secure authentication if possible" option (the default being 'yes'). So, people who ran into this bug could set "use secure authentication if possible = false", which would allow TBird to fall back to PLAIN if CRAM-MD5 failed.

Good to hear that you could eventually fix the database. [:)]

[quote user="RED121572"]

I am currently setting up Mercury32 on our mail server and I have run into a problem. Mercury32 is only allowing me to enter a maximum of 30 local users. Ive researched this, but Im having a hard time finding solutions.

 Is Mercury32 only set up to handle a maximum of 30 local users?

 Thanks!

[/quote]

Not at all, you can have as many users as you want up to the limit of the OS.  If you make the changes when Mercury/32 is running you need to use the CTRL+Manage local users to have them recognized without restarting Mercury/32.

If also fixed the problem with FileMaker.... Im a happy camper now... thanx. :-)

Hello!

You can have the recipients' addresses suppressed if you edit the settings of the respective Distribution list. Follow these steps:

(1) Open the Distribution lists window, go to the distribution list in question.
(2) Press the "Settings..."-button.
(3) You will find a section titled "List address settings". Amongst others, you can define what the "To:"-entry should look like.
(4) Enter a valid entry there. "valid" means that the entry may have both a short list description (similar to a real name often given in e-mail addresses) and a valid e-mail address (preferably your own one).
(5) Do not forget to press "OK" in order to save the changes.

The main idea of that concept is that the recipients will see the entry you typed in in step (4) - they will not see each others' addresses anymore then.

Some thoughts about step (4):
The entry you may type in there should look similar to the e-mail addresses you enter otherwise. An example: your personal e-mail address entry may look like this:
"Bob Mulder" <bob_mulder@invalid.ocm>
so it contains both your real name (within the quotes) and the actual e-mail address (in brackets). In other words: you have both a human-readable value (what is written within the quotes) and an addressing value (what is written between the brackets). That structure should also be used when you type in an entry for set (4). Such an entry may be:
"Invitation to my birthday" <bob_mulder@invalid.ocm>
In this case, the human-readable part is obviously not a real name, but a short description of the distribution list (here: the people you want to invite to your birthday party). The addressing value is simply your own e-mail address - the recipients know it, of course, so it will do no harm using your own address there.

The help page "Distribution list options" says about that option (the "To:"-value you can define for a Distribution list):

To field (suppressing the list of recipients): Entering an address in this field will force Pegasus Mail to suppress the listing of all the recipients' addresseses in the To: field when you use the list. Instead of showing every member of the list, the To: field will contain only what you enter here. Because of the way Internet mail works, you cannot simply enter any piece of text in this field -- you must enter something which can be legally processed as if it were an address. We recommend that you use the following format to create the contents of this field:

    "(descriptive text)" <(your own address)>

Replace (descriptive text) with a meaningful name for the mailing list, and put your own address where it says (your own address). Recipients will almost always see the descriptive text instead of your address so it will not seem as strange as it sounds. The quote characters around (descriptive text) and the angle bracket characters around (your own address) are vitally important and must be included exactly as shown. It is not possible to suppress the recipient list for MHS mail and this field will be ignored for MHS messages.

In the words of Mr. Spock and Mr. Watson, "Fascinating"

Thomas,

Thank you for the help. That worked very well!

 Bob

Hello!

I Pegasus to an usb stick almost a year ago, and there is something else you should try (in case you haven't find out that yet): there is a very useful tool in Pegasus' Program folder called "wssetup.exe".

Executing that file in every computer you want to use allows you to create desktop icons with the proper configuration
(in my experience, sometimes it fails, so maybe you'll need to correct the path in some computers...)

In my case, it's been working great, so if you have any issues, feel free to contact me.

Good luck,

Julian 

Yep. It was in Admin.  I deleted the largest .cnm files, and I also set the 8000 limit as you suggested.  Thank You

Thank you very much. That does the trick by adding a "sendto Pegasus" option.