The perfect forum for discussions or technical questions about Pegasus Mail.
To possibilities for fixing the problem:
bye Olaf
[quote user="Geoffrey"] I haven't used any yet, but it seems like your point number one would be better met by using the Identities feature of Pegasus[/quote]
Nope. Identities share the same mail store, user mail stores are independent.
[quote user="Geoffrey"] I'm curious how Pegasus knows about each users email address.[/quote]
The
user management function maintains a user list in a file named pmail.usr which resides in the root mailbox directory. There is also a file named pmail.cfg which is created during multi-user install and modified with the pconfig32.exe utility. It contains the path to the root mailbox directory and information about a gateway if one is in use (eg: Mercury).
[quote user="Geoffrey"] Logged-in users [F4] does not seem to work for me.[/quote]
It won't. It's a remnant of Netware functionality.
[quote user="Geoffrey"] It appears that addressbooks cannot be shared...[/quote]
They can. See the System-wide addressbooks topic on pg 101 of the manual.
FWIW, I ran for years with just a shared install of Pegasus Mail but at some
point, keeping the crap out of user mailboxes became important, so I added Mercury to the LAN. It ranks up there as one of the best things I've ever done. I think I was at 10 users when I did it. I maintain domain hosted user
mailboxes from which Mercury POPs messages. AV and SPAM
control are integrated into Mercury allowing for detections to be filtered so as not to be delivered to the user mailboxes. This is something to keep in the back of your head for consideration sometime down the road.
Don't know any.
You may only change the order of IMAP foldertrees by editing the IMAP.PM and moving the lines there (on closed Pegasus!!!).
kind regards
Olaf
Thank you for your reply. He is using his full email address. The security stuff is set to none. They gave me both options for smtpa with port 2225 and smtp with port 25. We have tried both. How do we unlock a port?
Brian,
I have been shutting Pegasus down every few days since you provided the advice to do so and it seems to be working as it should. So I suspect that we can put this to bed for the time being and see if anything develops from here but for now, I'm satisfied.
Thanks again for your help and also to others that offered suggestions.
Larry
Thanks Joerg for your detailed explanation of what I am trying to achieve.
My apologies for the delay in replying but I have been laid up for the last few weeks with a nasty flu bug.
Happy New Year
Chris
Thanks Brian for your prompt suggestion and for solving my problem.
TCPlog showed authentication failure caused by a reset of my user name (probably when autofilter was removed) without the "@peoi.org" which my new mail server requires in the user name for some strange reason.
Hope your are enjoying your turkey.
John
If experiencing the issue below with Mailwasher Pro, here is the fix
Close Pegasus, and then run the files in the Pegasus programs folder:
wssetup.exe
setpmdefault.exe
in that order.
This places an icon 'Pegasus Mail' on the desktop.
Selecting the new shortcut in Mailwasher's 'Use other application' then works and Mailwasher is back communicating with Pegasus Mail !
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Thanks, the pdf entry in the mime-map solved it. Now I can send pdf files to myself without any problems assuming that it will be the same for other receivers. I did not try the remove everything suggestion made above.
In file-viewer there is no entry for pdf.
Still puzzling to me is that soem pdfs are annotated now as pdf-doc, but some as pdf xchange viewer.. Still both can now be read.
Many thanks for your help.
Hi Harry,
I'm taking for granted that you have your Content Control Rule (e.g. "Basic Spam Detection") enabled and have set the Applicability to "all messages" or "messages from the internet" (I'm using the fully german version - insofar the names could differ a little bit)
But on the other hand I have activated and tested the Pmail blacklist function right now. And it it also not working with me [:(] when I'm adding a sender's address to the blacklist. But in our case all mails are being retrieved, and spam-assessed on the Mercury server by Spamhalter. And Spamhalter is adding additional flags to the mail header (e.g. "X-SPAMHALTER: whitelisted"). Don't know whether Pmail is fully trusting it and does nothing more. Maybe others guys who are using Pmail as standalone mail program without Mercury could post their experiences in this regard.
That did it. Thanks much for your help.
Generally there is a difference between links in html formatted mails and links in plain text mails. While links in html mails have to be clicked only once, links in plain text mails have to be clicked twice. Further, when holding the mouse pointer over a html link, a tooltip is showing the url address of the link. A lot of html mails contain invalid links of the schema "#1437645". It seems to be internal html jumping marks, when opening such mails on the originator's website. And finally we experience html links, where the handing-over of the link from Pmail to the browser takes a long time (up to 10-15 seconds). I believe Pmail is checking the URLs in the background with different anti-spam or blacklist servers.
But the behaviour you described we cannot experience.
Thanks. That does work.
The "Refresh new mail folder every xx secs" controls how often the mailbox is checked for new messages that come into the mailbox either by local transfer (local user to user) or by a local mail server like Mercury.
Ditto. Be prudent and back up first, just to be safe.
I can confirm that NotSpilt6 and three previous versions all have problems as described by the problem submitter. I am guessing that the problems can be one or more of the following.
1. A message size in the folder exceeds the Microsoft 32 bit filesize maximum. This can occur quite easily if a multi-megabyte attachment occurs in a message.
2. A message contains the byte x'1A' dec(27) which is the marker for separating messages in PMM files. There should not be any such bytes in a message. It seems likely that Microsoft is issuing these bytes as part of Cloud-based Outlook messages and not converting these bytes to Base64 format. All messages are supposed to be 7-bit text/plain.
I am investigating detecting this condition and will create a new version of NotSplit to handle this.
P.S I am on 64-bit Windows 10 , and cannot test on previous versions of Windows systems.
Martin
I'll leave the others to address most iof this but as far as different configs goes take a look at the -Y cmdline option, which allow you to have multiple "Pmail.ini" files (by other names of cause) and call them from your shortcut
Easiest way would be make a copy of PMail.ini rename it for your other OS's (W7Pmail.ini, W10Pmail.ini and "maybe" NixPmail.ini) add -Y to your cmdline then make the OS specific changes
If you get the single Mail dir to work under Linux I would love to know the details as I have been trying that on a dual boot (Xp Pro, Ubuntu Xenial, PuppyXenial, Ubuntu Ardvark) netbook without much success (so far)
Ralph,
I don't think the info content will be helpful at this point because your problem my be that configuration files have been copied from the XP install. The info content could all look fine but a copied configuration file could be what is causing problems.
If I were you, I would start with the Win7 machine, take the existing install out of the picture by deleting or renaming c:\pmail, then do a clean install to c:\pmail, multi-user (leaving Admin and adding Ralph (make sure to enable Administrator privileges)). Now copy just data files from the old Ralph mailbox directory to the new one (use the guide). Do the same for Admin if you think you need to. No files should be overwritten during the data copy phase. If you encounter one, stop and research the file.
There is another guide that you might find valuable. It's Han's guide to filenames and extensions. http://www.vandenbogaerde.net then follow the Pegasus Mail information link to the Filenames and extension link.
Once you get it all setup and working you can easily duplicate it on the Win10 box. Copy the entire c:\pmail directory to c:\pmail on the Win10 box. Manually execute c:\pmail\programs\winpm-32.exe to start Pegasus Mail then shut it back down. This will create a registry entry recording the Pegasus Mail program location. Now run the Pegasus Mail v4.72 installer. It will look at the registry entry and default to installing to that location, probably as an upgrade. Let it run. This will "install" Pegasus Mail, creating needed registry entries, menu items, and shortcuts. That should be it except for any configuration differences you wish to make.
I'm also still happy with Peg, and have never been able to understand why even power users seem to prefer to accessing email online, directly thru Gmail or whatever.
Moin Michael,
We are presently still using ISO-8859-1 without any problems.
But as I wrote, the problem was not the set charset but a corrupted user's pmail.ini file. On any Windows crash or other event, where Pmail didn't quit properly, user's pmail.ini will not be saved. And on new start it seems Pmail generates a "new" pmail.ini with random settings. We experience this behaviour regularly. That's why I saved the pmail.ini files of all of my users for an quick restore on such events. But the first time I'm always searching for other reasons until the user tell me that his Windows was frozen [8-)]
Gruß und schoenes WE
Joerg
