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angussf posted Dec 8 '17 at 8:31 pm

This looks like a really nasty way to spoof email headers and bypass spam filters.  AFAICT Pegasus Mail wasn't tested by this security researcher:

  • https://www.mailsploit.com/index

Not sure if it would affect SpamHalter either.  Comments welcome.

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Ahh. I didn't know there was any real reason to avoid IMAP. It seems to offer many advantages to me, and I guess, most people.  Being able to access "everything" from almost any device, anywhere, seems very inviting. I found it annoying not being able to access POP e-mails because they had been downloaded to a client somewhere, and I found the "Download only unread messages' option a bit troublesome.  Even then, you still can't access Copies of Sent messages, if they are on your Desktop at home.  I guess a special BCC-self e-mail account is the answer?

I guess I need to do more research.  One thing I do find troubling is the general move to cloud-based e-mail, which will eliminate many small e-mail clients, I'm sure.  I refuse to give all my e-mail and contacts to Google!  They know far too much already.  On-going, reliable backups from a long time ago would have been the best option!

In this case, it wasn't the 2GB limit. Only 170MB worth. I think my PC must have been running out of memory.

You are right!  Move was a dumb idea! I dragged and dropped, which doesn't offer the Copy option.

Already done an IMAPsize backup. Messy results, from a future lookup PoV. 

I am going to try a German product next. Sounds ok. MailStore (Home)... 

Then, will come back to Pegasus. 

Thanks again for your comments.


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FJR posted Dec 7 '17 at 11:28 am

To possibilities for fixing the problem:

  • temporarily connect a seconf monitor again and move Pegasus to screen 1.
  • The coordinates for windows of Pegasus are in STATE.PMJ in section [General]. Most times you will have success  by removing all entries with V4...=... on closed Pegasus. But afterwards you have to position and resize all windows of Pegasus as you want them to be.

bye    Olaf

 


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Brian Fluet posted Dec 6 '17 at 12:48 am

[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.

 

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DSE posted Nov 30 '17 at 11:07 pm

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?

 

 

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LarryT posted Dec 14 '17 at 6:40 pm

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

 

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Flosex posted Dec 31 '17 at 10:22 am

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 

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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

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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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<dl class="file"><dt class="attach-image"><font color="#CCCCCC&gt;I have been happily using Mailwasher with Pegasus Mail for several years, on Vista, then on Windows 7 Ultimate - all worked correctly.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Recently I upgraded to Windows 10 and am now running the latest release of Windows 10 and have run into a problem I am unable to resolve. I am using the latest release of Mailwasher Pro.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Mailwasher can no longer communicate with Pegasus Mail. Although Mailwasher recognises Pegasus and shows Pegasus Mail in Settings/Washing Mail, if I select the Pegasus option, Mailwasher is unable to open Pegasus from the Start Mail button, giving the error as shown in Clipboard01.jpg&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=" inline-attachment><img class="postimage" alt="Clipboard01.jpg" mce_src="https://forum.firetrust.com/download/file.php?id=9086" src="https://forum.firetrust.com/download/file.php?id=9086"></font></dt><dd><font color="#CCCCCC&gt;I have been happily using Mailwasher with Pegasus Mail for several years, on Vista, then on Windows 7 Ultimate - all worked correctly.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Recently I upgraded to Windows 10 and am now running the latest release of Windows 10 and have run into a problem I am unable to resolve. I am using the latest release of Mailwasher Pro.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Mailwasher can no longer communicate with Pegasus Mail. Although Mailwasher recognises Pegasus and shows Pegasus Mail in Settings/Washing Mail, if I select the Pegasus option, Mailwasher is unable to open Pegasus from the Start Mail button, giving the error as shown in Clipboard01.jpg&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class=" inline-attachment>Clipboard01.jpg (8.21 KiB) Viewed 2 times</font></dd></dl>

If I select 'Use other application' in Settings/Washing Mail, Mailwasher will open Pegasus when the Start Mail button is clicked, but cannot communicate with Pegasus to send/forward mail or report mail to Spamcop.
Attempting to do so brings the error message:
<dl class="file"><dt class="attach-image"><img class="postimage" alt="Clipboard02.jpg" mce_src="https://forum.firetrust.com/download/file.php?id=9087" src="https://forum.firetrust.com/download/file.php?id=9087"></dt><dd>Clipboard02.jpg (7.48 KiB) Viewed 2 times</dd></dl>


This is very disappointing and I have been unable to resolve this. Any suggestions?

Rgds
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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.

 

 

 

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Joerg posted Nov 17 '17 at 8:46 am

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.

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Joerg posted Nov 10 '17 at 1:18 pm

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.

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Brian Fluet posted Dec 17 '17 at 9:46 pm

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.

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irelam posted Oct 27 '17 at 11:34 pm

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

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Shades posted Oct 24 '17 at 4:23 pm

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)

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