Hi, Wifey gets into an awful mess with pmail because she does very little 'housekeeping'.

Her pmail is set up for selective download because that allows anything suspicious to be deleted off the host server. However all her mail ends up in a single new mail mailbox.

I have setup identities for a)Personal mail and b) Business mail of higher importance. The problem at the moment is her new mail box is full of personal mail and she can't take in the important mail.

I'd like to filter on alias identity so downloaded mail goes into new folders called either e.g Personal or Business. From there she can move messages somewhere else or delete them.

I've played with filtering, but haven't got anything to work yet. maybe it's because we're using selective download? But mail still ends up in the New mail folder. I don't mind if it gets moved after pmail shuts down or when it's opened, as long as mail isn't appended into the New mail box.

pmail can work out what's spam and magically put it in the spam folder where you don't often look! I just want to direct wanted mail based on incoming email identity into new folders.

Is there a way I can do this? Thanks

This is, I think, a not-too-serious bug report for Pegasus Mail 4.81.1154, Jan 10 2023, build ID 1154. I have received an unexciting email message containing the nasty-looking header

Subject: =?utf-8?B?8J+QpyBJdCdzIHR1cm5pbmcgY29sZGVyIC0gQmUgcHJlcGFyZWQg?=
    =?utf-8?B?Zm9yIHRoZSDinYTvuI8gY29sZGVyIG1vbnRocyBhaGVhZCDinYTvuI8=?=

In the folder view top-right list of messages, the Subject column shows as completely blank. (I think it should show some text!)

In the folder view's bottom-right message preview pane, the subject appears, presumably correctly, as

 It's turning colder - Be prepared  for the ❄️ colder months ahead ❄️

Then when I open the message, its window title bar shows

<Sender>, ????????????????????????

That's almost as bad as completely blank, but at least I can tell there ought to be something there. The header section of the message itself shows the subject properly -- that's what I copied and pasted from to get the text earlier in this post.

The sender (trying to sell central heating radiators) has not made this subject text easy to display, but I firmly suggest Pegasus Mail ought to be able to do an equally good job in the window title bar and the message list as it does for the message window headers area.

This last bit isn't part of the bug report, but I'd guess it was an issue with character encoding.

How do I get back the Junk or suspicious mail folder? I had a mail downloading glitch and as are result it was flooded with messages and proved quite resistant to reindexing, so I ended up deleting the whole thing.

Now I'd like to get the folder back but I don't know how. I've tried creating a folder with the same name and directing messages to it in 'Tools / Spam and content control / Content control definitions / Basic Spam Detection / Edit / Actions / Move the message to a folder' but this is not working, as the window does not seem to accept my folder selection -- when I click 'Set', it only reopens the 'Select a mail folder' window time and again,, and when I click 'OK' it does nothing.

Thanks for any advice. The version is 4.80.1028 Jan 16 2022 build 1028

I recently got a new notebook (Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga). I managed to copy pmail and it works fine, now under Win11 (before Win10).

Also scrolling with my (external) mouse works almost everywhere (like in all other programs). Only in the text body on an email I am reading, scrolling with the mouse wheel does not work at all. Scrolling does not do anything. Note that scrolling in all other windows in pmail (including the header of the emails I am reading) works perfect. Just in the message body the problem exists.

By the way, I am using the German version.

None of my colleagues or technicians at my university can help me here. Any ideas or suggestions or workarounds?

Hello The Forum,
Wondering if there is a way to Save my preferred font settings in the Pegasus Mail message composition box?
When I start a new message (or reply to a message) the font defaults to Courier New size 10. I know I can select other fonts and change the font-size, but I'd love to be able to set at the very least font-size 12 instead of 10...
All and any help most welcome.

Satch

Recently I have friends sending me messages with attachments named MP4 and I am unable to open/view what they are sending me. My question (although not super major) is there some type of setting that needs to be implemented in order to view that I don't have already established? I just don't don't what they are sending and I do know it is not spam or junk as they are my regular friends

As usual thanks for the time (and help)

Hi all, I've accumulated many messages in my mailbox going back to 2005. I've always had the same problem, pruning the mailbox of old messages to keep a manageable size. I know i can create new mailboxes and painfully copy mesages, but this is really waht i wanted to work but didn'T:

1. Search for all messages in the date range 2005 to 1017 .. it did that.
2. Highlight all messages found. It did that.
3. Delete all highlighted messages.

It appeared to do (3) but when I searched again, the same old messages were found and the MAIL folder didn't decrease in size. I also expected and didn't see the pmail housekeeping message to re-compress the mail folder which i expected for such a large delete.

help, what am I doing wrong, are the old mail messages write protected or incompatible with latest release of pmail?

Thanks

Hello all, maybe there is a simple solution or workaround, but I cant find it. Problem is:

I have correspondence with company XXXXX.com - so I have mails from them in my RECEIVED folder und I have mails to them in my SENT folder.

Searching each folder generates sth like 500 Emails, which is correct - but I would like to have the result in ONE folder, i.e. can easily see who responded from them or what I responded on the time line.

I think it will be sth like filtering, but I dont want to MOVE the result, but just see them in ONE folder seperately as search result.

How can that be done - thanks in advance

rgds hans

Hi all,

I have a problem that somehow must have come up with using two monitors, or maybe some other reason I do not know (but it occured also with another program in a similar way).

I seems that in some cases (concrete: when I want to create a new folder in my mailbox or also, when I get asked if I want a copy of my outgoing mail) the pop-up window must be displayed somwhere, but not on my visible monitor. Pmail gives a "gong" goes in the background and every klick on the screen leads to another "gong". In the two cases the pop-up window for the folder to be created, or the folder where it should be saved, respectively should appear on the screen. When I type <esc> the pmail screen returns to normal.

However, not all pop-ups from inside pmail have the same behavior.

Any clue? Thanks for any help.

Peter

Trying to change characteristics of a mail folder but can't get folder manager window to open. Neither File>Mail Folders nor the Folders icon seem to open the manager. Any suggestions?

Bob

Since the Auto-Update functionality is broken in IER 2.7.1.2 I'm posting this announcement here for once:

• The usual after-release fixes: Copying incomplete sections of HTML formatted message parts to clipboard would result in HTML code pasted instead of formatted contents if not pasting them as plain text. This has been fixed now.

• And the update check was broken due to some changes applied to remote file download checks for avoiding privacy issues connected to font downloads from third party providers behind the scenes. Fixed as well.

• Additionally I've applied some enhancements to the online help for not missing the embedded images when launched outside of Pegasus Mail immediately after install.

For IER's history page providing the download link please see my sigature below.

Greetings!

I just updated to the beta. All is well except for an annoyance. Whenever I start Pmail I have to re-add my hosts for both POP3 and sending SMTP. Then it works fine.

More detail:
When I upgraded, Pmail forgot my Hosts for POP3 and SMTP. Fortunately, when I selected 'add' my whole list of Hosts was there. Even my very old disabled ones. I was able to select my current host for both POP3 and SMTP and went on my merry way.

Unfortunately, when I next opened Pmail I had to re-add both the hosts.

If I edit a host, it remembers the edits between sessions. Everything else seems to be working just fine.

I am willing to try anything (within reason) to help trouble shoot this.

Any suggestions and help would be greatly appreciated.

TYVM for your time.

We recently set up a new installation and when I enumerate a list it fails to run.

The core process window shows “* Transient error - job deferred for later processing.”

The mercury system messages window shows “Core: Error getting
mailbox information for MercAdm”

MercAdm is an alias with the mercury software.

Running PM on Windows 10 64 bit, PM is Version 4.81.1154 and IERenderer is 2.7.1.3.
Seem to have a problem with the listing of open windows (or panes) (see image ) - I normally have PM in 'Preview' mode and when I start a new message it appears on top of the 'Folders - New mail' window and any other window (pane) will be listed at the bottom of the 'Window' menu items.
However, of late, only '1 Folders - New mail' is listed at the bottom of the 'Windows' item list, no other windows listed.
If I minimize the 'Folder - New mail' pane, the other windows are behind it.

Hello:

I use Pegasus Mail Version 4.73.639, Mar 30 2018, build ID 639, running with Wine-4.0 under Linux Devuan 5.10. The box runs automated backups with the BackInTime application.

Everything is as it should be. ie: in all the years I have been using it, PMail has never skipped a beat. Ever.

But I now have a problem:

I need to find an email (from a bank, from all possible places) which I deleted a couple of months ago thinking the issue that prompted it had been definitely solved.

Nothing but wishful thinking, obviously bad judgement on my behalf.

But I digress.

I keep deleted emails for around 45/60 days and then clear out the folder but now, quite unexpectedly, I need data I no longer have.

The thing is that I have it but it is in my PMail backup files.

I can manage with the just raw text as what I need are just the numbers assigned to the complaints I sent the bank, which they (of course) claim they don't have.

I'd appreciate some guidance to get the text from the backups.
The emails should be in the New Mail or Deleted Messages folders.

Thanks in advance.

Best,

S.

The dialog box below will appear upon right-click > Show pictures (HTML only) until you tick the "Do not show me this warning in the future." option. For the life of me I can not figure out how to re-enable the display of the dialog box.

In a second Pegasus Mail installation the dialog box appears when both IERenderer and bearhtml are disabled which indicates it is a Pegasus Mail function. The setting is not identity specific but is user specific so the option must be stored somewhere in the mailbox directory. Logically, PMAIL.INI should hold the key but a file compare with a backup did not identify it. I then did a file compare of all files that were modified after I ticked the box without being able to identify an applicable entry.

Obviously I am missing something. Does anyone have a clue, or care to try your hand at figuring it out? Keep in mind that once you tick it you may not be able to go back.

Today 9/6/23 hyperlinks are opening immediately rather than in background. Have not changed any settings. This has never happened before.
Updated ierendere yesterday.
Went back to 2.7.1.1 (hypers opened in background in browser as normal but then went to opening immediately again)

I've been using Pegasus Mail since circa 1980's [Currently WinPMail version: Version 4.80.1028, Jan 16 2022, build ID 1028]. For some reason, just noticed recently, "Selective Mail Download" is not working properly as follows:

Whenever I try to retrieve more than 10 emails, I only get 10? Examples follow:
Using "File/Selective Mail Download/Make It So"

1. Attempt = Delete 41 and retrieve 35, Result = retrieves 10 of that 35, and none are deleted.
2. Attempt = Delete 81 and retrieve 0, Result = All 81 are deleted.
3. Attempt = Delete 0 and retrieve 94, Result = retrieves 10 of that 94.

This is bizarre?? Has anyone else experienced this issue? Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

I sometimes have four instances of pmail running parallel.

Since today, in one of the instances, I have a problem with opening emails. The other instances work correctly.

When I click on a mail to open it, it seems something is happening by the turning time-clock / mouse pointer being busy. Because of that I think the email opens, but I cannot see it. Or opening the mail does not succeed and there is no error message.

Restarting does not work, checking for messages outside the pmail frame also not, making it extended monitors also not.

However, when I start a new message either through the menu or through ctr-n, it works without problem.

Any idea?

Running 4.8 with IERenderer 2.7.1.1 enabled. Disabling it does not help either.

Hi, does Pegasus Mail have any limits regarding the folder size or number of emails in folder?