Since my posting, I have found the problem and report it here in case anybody else should have a smiliar problem.

My new laptop came with a 30 day free trial of Norton Security, which I signed up for.  The 30 days expired a couple of days ago and, fortunately, I didn't pay to extend it because after it expired Pegasus suddenly started working as it should and as I was able to connect to my server ok.

Norton Security must have been blocking Pegasus from connecting to my ISP.  Some may argue that this is what Norton Security is supposed to do and, while I agree with that, surely it shouldn't block it without telling me it was doing so?  Also, the error message I was receiving within Pegasus was telling me that it was my ISP that was refusing my connection and, although I knew this wasn't true because I was able to connect to it on another computer, I couldn't fathom out why it was telling me that - now I know!

Regards, Flosex 

I was able to solve the problem after finding out that when I tried to copy my PMAIL folder to another drive, one particular file could not be copied.  I looked for the origination folder of the file, saw it was created on the day the problems started, figured that must be it and deleted it.  Voila!

Thanks Brian,

All appears to be working OK now

[quote user="PaulW"][quote user="Tweazer"]

Greetings, I am wondering if I will be able to use Pagasus Mail on a native MS-DOS 6.22 machine that runs MSClient (WFW Add-on).

I am trying to send email via a batch file. My main program can swap out and free up a few hundred kb of ram.[/quote]

I always use blat to send mails from batch files -   It is simple to use and has a very small footprint.

 [/quote]

As far as I can tell blat is not for native DOS but for the 16 or 32 bit Windows command line.

Thanks Irelam,

I'm using the option in Sending mail / Permanent BCC address and that works.

As Copy to Self is already doing part of the job, is there a way to tell Pmail to BCC only in case of attachments?

Edit: actually BCC is not the best solution as that means downloading own messages with attachments. Especially if they're big it's quite annoying. I'm quite surprised that Pegasus doesn't automatically saves attachments.

With Pegasus Mail open, click the Help menu item, then click "About Pegasus Mail". Then click the Info button. You will get a screen with a lot of different information.

The item you need is "Home mailbox location".  Note the location.

Next using Windows Explorer, navigate to that address. To make things easier at this point, click on the heading for Type, to get the directory content sorted by filetype.

Scroll down till you find the Pns files. Select any/all of these files, and click Delete .  You are done.  Close and then restart Pegasus Mail, and your signature files are gone.

HTH

Martin 

Problem solved....Many Thanks!

>Is there anything wrong with:

>C:\PMAIL\winpm-32.exe -Y pmail_leno.ini

The default path is C:\PMAIL\PROGRAMS but if your Pegasus Mail executables reside in C:\PMAIL then your command line should work.

>If I change something here it is changed also when i just start winpm-32.exe 

Mostly not.  Most (but not all) configuration changes are stored in the PMAIL.INI file so configuration changes made when running with the PMAIL_LENO.INI will only be written to the PMAIL_LENO.INI file.  When you just start winpm-32.exe the PMAIL.INI file is used so you will need to make the same configuration changes for it.

As for you previous question about the windows,  I don't remember if I had to open windows when I started using my PMAIL_HI.INI file.  I do remember having to resize and reposition windows though.  Perhaps you need to set the Pegasus desktop up the way you want it for the copied .INI, I just don't remember.   As Jerry said, STATE.PMJ also plays a role in this so in may case, I keep the same folder windows open regardless of which INI file I am running as.  Make a backup of your original .INI file for safe keeping while working at this.

Located at http://community.pmail.com/files/folders/pegadd/entry38727.aspx  This is a minor upodate to detect and ignore images used to track user visits to a website. The images are 1 pixel by 1 pixel in size, so are not really visible at all

Another option to to place the mailstore in a TrueCrypt volume. Loads as a new driver letter (ie: P: for Pegasus) instead of C:

This way the files can not be viewed at all unless Truecrypt volume is loaded with password.

I have mine in a 20GB TrueCrypt volume, the total Pegasus mailstore is just over 9 GB allowing for temp space when folders are updated.

I have been using PMail for well over ten years; this issue just cropped up. The reader header displays the "From" and "To" lines properly. However, in order to display the "Subject," "Date Sent,""Reply TO" and "CC" fields, I need to position the cursor after the end of the "To" line and click down arrow or page down. I can then view two more lines at a time. It does not matter how large I adjust the header field by dragging the bottom line of the field. That is, if the message header window is 10 lines high, I will see 8 blank lines.

I have the exact same problem with the help fields. If I press F1 or click on Help, then select a topic, I will see the title of the topic with a blank screen underneath. I can then read one or two lines at a time by positioning my cursor after the title then pressing down arrow; again, it does not matter how big the window is set, the two displayed lines will be followed by blank space.

I have tried resizing the window(s) by dragging the bottoms. It makes no difference in the behavior.

I am running 64 bit Windows 7. 

Be aware that a permanent BCC ensures you have a copy of every sent message but does not provide the same functionality as the Copy to self function (e.g. no option to resend the message).

I figured this out. It's under IERenderer options.

All I want to transfer this time are existing mail folders -- including new -- and address books, and I was hoping identities. 

With the help of search I've copied .PMI, PM!, PMM, cache, and .CNM files. Seem to have all address books and almost all mail folders now... the important ones, anyway.  

Not transferring Pmail.INI means I have to redo my identities and signatures over again?  That's not really a big deal.

Thank you very much.

idw, I was wrong, I did enable Content Control.

What I did:

Tools / Spam and Content Controls / Edit (Basic Spam)  / unchecked "Disable this definition for now

So, at the moment I've checked that option again as it seems that was freezing Pegasus, thus basically there's no spam control.

[quote user="David Harris"]My immediate reaction is that the signature file is probably assumed to be stored in ISO-8859-1 ...[/quote]

I don't think so.  The plain text signaturefiles (PMS) are in old DOS-Format ... charactercode 850.

If I use Notepad++ for editing the PMS-files, I have to change coding to "OEM850" to see the special (german) letters like ä, ö and ü correctly. Changing to ISO-8859-1 won't show them correctly. Simple DOS-Editor with Windows (EDIT in CMD) does show them correctly too.

Cheers

     Olaf

Thank you for this gracious offer, will see if any thing that I am able to do or maybe get some accomplishment done in this area will produce some assistance in other areas. My objective has always been to increase the understanding of how these systems work and how to see where the problem is instead of constantly hammering US and OUR systems. I may not be the smartest but try to be the wisest and throw it back to them.

I would recommend to you to check the 'Raw View' tab when you have one of the 'Mail Delivery Failure'  messages available for you to review. Click the 'Open' button on the "TOOL" bar then look for the tab 'Raw View' then scroll down through the information, mostly at the top, and just see where the most mail handling information is from, like "Authentication-Results: "; "Received: " these lines will usually be fairly close to each other unless there are many mail handling entries. To me a 'give-away' that there is not a problem within our systems is when you get a returned message with the following entry at the top:

"Delivery has failed on the enclosed message for the following
reasons reported either by the mail delivery system on the mail
relay host or by the local TCP/IP transport module:

   *** TCP/IP error while processing job ***
   A network error has occurred while WinPMail attempted to send
   your message. This error could be caused by many conditions,
   including the following:
     * The remote host may have gone down.
     * Your network may have been broken or gone down.
     * You may have a configuration problem in your WINSOCK.DLL.
     * If running on a SLIP line, you may have experienced a
       timeout (increase the value in WinPMail's Network Config.
       Dialog), or the phone line may have gone down or suffered
       from excessive line noise.
   WinPMail will requeue your message and try again later.
   ---"
  With the qualification 'if you have your system setup to either automatically download and install the latest updates or have it alert you to new updates to be installed later when you are not involved some important work' keep your system as current as possible. There could be an issue with that WINSOCK.DLL file but if you have been keeping as up to date as possible there is little likelihood. 

I do not now how familiar you are with these systems so if I sound like a person that will take you by the hand and lead you through the settings, let me know because I get rather offended by some of the HELP desks that I have had to call and they sound like they are using a 'RollerDex' card file to do the troubleshooting. Meaning they have no clue as to what our problems are and probably are a recent hire off the street. The "#1" operation they do is want you to re-input your password or want you to 'open IE web browser' or whatever browser you use to access 'WebMail'.

[quote user="timmib"]

thanks, worked just fine.

 Kim

[/quote]

Works here now also but it did not earlier today using Firefox or Chrome. Just tried again after seeing Michael's post and now it works fine with the US or Euro or NZ currency buttons. The beginning page where one fills out information for PayPal did not come up before. Must have been a glitch in the server at PayPal earlier. 

[quote user="whiskyfizz"]If you want to use them or consult the emails for a particular year, just copy-paste the relevant folder into the MAIL folder when Pegasus Mail is not running, then launch the program and the folder should appear.[/quote]

There is no need to copy the folders back into the mail folder.  With the Folders window active (I use plain view), go to Folders in the menu bar and select "Add mailbox to list". In the next window, point Pegasus to the directory where the folder/folders is/are stored and provide a - unique - name for the mailbox.

You are correct and that just would not happen for me, that is why the post was made. Discovered there was a 'State.PMJ' that was missing from my Admin folder. For some reason it was not created when doing the fresh install today.  Had kept my original installation on a different drive and went through and compared each folder and when there was a missing file it was copied to my new installation. There is a 'State.PMJ' in the "\PMail\Mail" folder and the "\PMail\Mail\Admin" folder. This last one is the one that tied it all together. I was missing the 'New Mail' and Deleted Messages' folders, they are now back where they belong.

Back up and fully operational as of this evening.  It all started when I neglected to connect my power adapter for my laptop and the battery died on Friday about 1100hrs local time and ended this evening about 1900hrs local time, almost 2.5 days.  Whew ! ! Very happy it is over. Solved ! ! !

A very large THANK YOU goes to "irelam' for his assistance and advice . . without him . . I hate to think of what I would have done . .