OK, finally found from printed manual that the reply button has options that take you into options dialogs, if you uncheck and recheck custom headers you get into a dialog. Will leave this here to help others.

I am getting a bit off-topic from my earlier posts (regarding IMAP checking for new mail), so I have started another thread about autofiltering.

I am now trying to use autofiltering, but it isn't working for me.  I am sending a message from a different e-mail address than my principal one.  I am making my mail server (Mercury), duplicate the message, so that it is delivered to two IMAP accounts; Gordon and GordonFile.  In the account GordonFile, I have set up a folder with autofiltering.  I "train" this folder with my first test message and I have confirmed that the folder has been set up to autofilter, using the e-mail address of the first test message.  However, subsequent test messages from the same testing address are not autofiltered into autofiltering folder.  Nothing that I can do seems to be able to make this happen.  I am wondering if I have some settings wrong somewhere, but I can't seem to find anything.

A further autofiltering question, which may become an issue .....  If I set up a folder for autofiltering, should any mail coming into any account end up being autofiltered, or only messages destined for the account in which the autofiltering folder resides?

Thank you

Gordon

[quote user="Bob"]However, when I open up a new message window I have to click on the "maximize" button to get that window to fill the screen properly.[/quote]

It's always been like this, the workaround I use is to "pseudo-maximize" the inner Pegasus Mail windows by opening one by one as a single window and select Window => Tile from Pegasus Mail's main menu bar for each of them: This kind of "maximized" Window will be restored properly the only disadvantage being the additional title bar at the top.

[quote user="Jerry Wise"]That only shows the other computer is configured differently and has chosen different MSWindows   options. That computer has some known extensions hidden, not shown. Your computer does show the same extensions you were searching for.

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Jerry,

Thanks for the prompt reply. Both computers are running Pegasus. Email from one PC can be transferred to the other. (In the early days of email, my wife elected to use my email address rather than (as I recommended) having her own. It is fortunate that we are still happily married!)

 Neither Pegasus is on C:. The hard drives are split into logical drives, F: being the applications drive and G: the user data drive. So her folders are in a directory on G:.

 You have made clear to me that the problem is not a Windows issue.

On my wife's computer, I just tried preparing an email for sending. When I tried to Copy Self to the Howard folder, Pegasus complained of a disk error. I then moved the emails in Howard elsewhere, deleted the Howard folder, created a Howard 2 folder, copied the emails from elsewhere to Howard 2. I then moved a received email to Howard 2 with no problems.

 So I learn that checking consistency (and finding it OK) and re-indexing doesn't necessarily make a folder OK.

BTW Could I have named the new folder Howard, like the deleted one? Or does this cause problems in Pegasus?

[quote user="GordonM"]Paul - With regard to POP3 and rule-sets, I noted the following in the Pegasus Help:

POP3 filtering sets are slightly different from other filtering rule sets in Pegasus Mail - they have a more limited range of actions available (because many of the standard filtering actions are only meaningful if the message is actually present on your system), and have the three additional special actions described above.

I didn't go any further with the POP3 option ... maybe I should have done.[/quote]

That is specific POP filtering with minimal download of messages for people who are on a slow or restricted connection.  The normal rulesets can still be applied to all messages whether they are fetched by POP3/IMAP or whatever.

[quote]No, for me, new messages never (at least not within 30 mins) appear unless I take some manual action.  I couldn't find any Pegasus setting that might affect this.  I wonder whether this could be some Windows 7 issue, though I am pretty sure that many people will be using Pegasus with Win7.  I'll maybe install Pegasus on another machine, running XP, and see if it makes any difference.

My preference would have been to filter on the Mercury side, but there doesn't seem to be any way of filtering into specified folders within an account, only to the Inbox of another account.[/quote]

That's correct, there is currently no Mercury filtering to specific folders - only to different mailboxes.  There has been talk of extending it but no timescale yet.

[quote user="Niall Martin"]Training of messages does not work.  I see a message in my junk folder, showing a red traffic light.  Then I move it to my new mail folder.  Re traffic light goes green.  Close pmail.  Open it again, and message is back in junk folder showing a green traffic light.  I am having to white list an awful lot of senders to get round the problem. [/quote]

I'm not really familiar with how Spamhalter works, but from what I gather from Pmail's help, I understand that you need to train Spamhalter by moving messages to spam and non-spam folders. The new mail folder is not really a folder, so you may want to try moving your messages to a different, real folder. Hope this helps.

Cheers!

When inserting message(s) in a folder, the shaded highlight stays with the last selected message but the dotted frame stays at the same relative position in the list as the selected message used to be.  There can be similar behaviour in the list of folders.

The only thing that may seem odd is that if you do a message selection (using shift or control keys), the 'current' position is the dotted highlight, not the selected message.

It may be an artifact of the particular Windows control that is used to display the folders.

No way that I know of in Pegasus Mail to examine and edit the HTML in a message being composed.  If you need that sort of control in may be better to compose and edit it in your favourite HTML editor, and then import it into the message area using the right-click 'Import HTML file' option.

[quote user="ahhooker"]Got a new PC for Xmas, and downloaded the newest version of Pegasus email.  Have tried repeatedly to copy pegasus files from old computer and download onto new to retrieve address books, obviously without results.  Any suggestions?  Not computer savy.[/quote]

There are already several threads about migration to new systems such as and that one. You might also find (at least) one dealing especially with address books ...

[quote user="Henrik Rosenø"]

[quote user="PaulW"]Do you have any 'Local address' signatures set up?[/quote]

Thank you for answering! But can you tell me a little more, for instance where I could have setup such?[/quote]

Same place as setting up the external (internet) variant signatures - Tools / Options / Signatures / Edit signatures, then choose the set and the type you want.

[quote]BTW: Where do I setup the handling of the automatic Confirmation(-of receiving/reading)-replies?[/quote]

Reading confirmation is at Tools / Options / Advanced settings, then check the box 'Accept requests to confirm reading'.

Delivery confirmation is usually done by the mail server and not the client like Pegasus.

[quote user="BennBoulton"] Yes my IMAP inbox is updating automatically.  Also I find it interesting that the "filters" are run when a "folder" is open or closed,  I see no filter or rule that is based on "message arrival"[/quote]

There is none.  IMAP doesn't automatically tell the client about message arrival (although sometimes there is IMAP IDLE or push technology which almost does the same thing).

[quote]I also find it interesting the the "filter action" will trigger every time I open the folder (or PMail) until I read the message, or mark the message as read.[/quote]

That doesn't happen with IMAP filters for me - they operate regardless of 'read' state.

[quote]I think that if that the filtering options need to have an "on arrival"  actions (that work in both POP and IMAP).[/quote]

You effectively have that with POP messages going into your local new mail folder (subject to your re-scan setting).

Well, the answer did solve my problem, and thanks.  But before I changed the setting, PM was not supplying the addresses, just sending the emails out with the aliases.

Hello dnjdad,

Or try this to import your Outlook mail:

Looks like you need to adjust the command line to make it run properly.  This is not unique to Ubuntu 10.10 though.

My command line to run PMail is env WINEPREFIX="/home/thomas/.wine" wine C:\\pmail461\\Programs\\WINPM-32.EXE -A -MS

The -A says to not look for Netware the -MS allows me to run many instances of PMail.

 PS  The pmail.usr file is located at c:\pmail461\mail and the single user mailbox is at c:\pmail\mail\admin.

Quick followup -

 Jerry - you nailed it. Everything's working quite nicely now. Thanks a million.

 I did download and install 4.51. Painless. 

OK - many thanks.

Had the same problem...most advice revolved around setting the 'default setting for search results folder is "delete on exit'" to be on. Good advice as far as it went but it was not working.

Found a post elsewhere that noted if Pegasus has crashed out or had some kind of abnormal ending, then even with the setting right, the search results would not (and would never be) deleted.

Cure is to locate files having the  name format LNKxxxxx.PNL   i.e. beginning with the letters LNK and having a PNL extension, then delete them. That deletes the link folder entries, but not the messages themselves.

These files  are in your pmail\mail\<<username>> directory.    Not literally <<username>>  of course...the directory will depend on how you have set up pmail.

Once any locked or orphaned pnl files are gone, normal behaviour is reestablished according to the settings in  the tools...options...incoming mail folder behaviours panel.

Wish I could claim credit for this fix, but it is all the work of someone else whose name and web location I have forgotten in my rush to try out his brilliant solution on my machine.

I would venture though the easiest way to  delete them might be to do a windows search for LNK*.PNL and delete them wherever windows finds them. I doubt that particular filespec would ever be used by anything other than Pegasus.

Cheers

PAF

[quote user="Andros"] So, where should I go to play with this????  Thanks for any help.[/quote]

This option hasn't been implemented yet, I just made another suggestion to David Harris for solving it, but no reply so far ...

> What do I have to do to Pegasus so Pegasus itself  will once more send my e-mails to my provider as before?

Use Tools | Internet options | (Sending) SMTP and select either of the following options to bypass Mercury.

Use in preference to LAN mailer for Internet mail  This option is only meaningful when you are running Pegasus Mail with a Mercury or User Defined Gateway (UDG) queue. Checking this control tells Pegasus Mail to use its own built-in mail delivery routines instead of passing your outgoing mail to the queue for processing. If you leave this box unchecked, then Pegasus Mail will always use the Mercury/UDG queue in preference to its own SMTP delivery routines. The setting of this control is ignored when you run Pegasus Mail where there is no Mercury or UDG queue.

Use for all outgoing mail, regardless of address:  Usually when you enter an address such as "DAVID", which has no domain portion, Pegasus Mail regards it as a local address and attempts to deliver it to the user based on the assumption that he can be found on the machine you are using. If you are the only person who uses your computer, however, then there will be no other users on your system and this assumption will not be valid. Checking this control tells Pegasus Mail to pass all mail to the remote host for processing and not to presume that any addresses are local to your machine. You should only check this control if you are the only person who uses your machine.

Hi,

This has solved my problem as well, thanks for that.

My problem was the same, but more of a pain.

My work laptop has a secondary monitor at work with a larger screen than the laptop screen. When I ran PMail (I use this for my personal emails) on the larger screen, I pulled the preview bar down so that there were only a few lines of preview showing. For some reason it "stuck" there, so that, even after dragging the bar up, when PMail started, the bar was always near the bottom. This was a minor annoyance on the bigger monitor, but when I was at home or travelling without the larger screen, the preview bar was below the bottom of the window, I could not make it large enough to grab the bar and drag it up. So, without an larger extension monitor, preview was effectively permanently off.

Many thanks,[Y]

Garry.