Thank youPeter and Sharkfin.  I had tried reinstalling, before I posted here.  I tried again, this time putting everything in a new directory.

Using a new directory worked.  Then I spent a few days finding my old mail files and setting things so the new installation could see them.  Then I spent some time trying to clean up the folders, and now I have a new problem [:)]  I will post a new message about that.

 I'd like to try sending without the files being put into a zip file.  How do I control whether or not a zip file is used?

PMail does not ZIP files automatically.  Are the files you sending already in a ZIP file?  If so and you are sending files from a ZIP file displayed as a directory then I suspect PMail will send the zip file since it cannot extract and attach them.

It sounds like either:

a) the first message that Pegasus tries to display when you open it is causing a problem (in which case delete it or move it to another folder), or

b) you have a filter rule that is trying to work with an attachment but can't for some reason. Try disabling it.

Thank you for the help Thomas. I discovered that the pop3 and smtp addresses in Tools | Internet options had disappeared. I re entered them and all is well again.

ok ....I figured it out and it is fixed!

Tim

I tried the bottom suggestion first and that's it.  I'll try the first part later.

Thank you-

[quote user="David Briggs"]

I have been using v4.51 for a few weeks since installing on a new PC running Windows 7. I had the now-you-don't-see-them toolbar buttons, so I followed the instructions to download the update package rather than the full installer. However, it did not recognise my installed version and would not upgrade it.

I was able to install the full kit in upgrade mode, and everything is working OK, so the problem is sidestepped.

Hope that helps anyone else who runs into the same issue.

David

[/quote]

 What directory did you install Pegasus Mail in? See the for some hints ...

Does anyone know any way to set a priority on addressbooks when using Auto-Completion?  I have multiple address books and would prefer that Auto-Complete search the addressbooks in a specific order. 

Sharkfin,

Thanks for replying.

My spreadsheet creates a 'record' that has either "NameAddressStatePostcodeCountry" or "We don't have an address for you" in a single cell, where in the first situation it places an ASCII CR/LF inbetween each of NameAddress etc... through the use of CHAR(10)  and then it is all exported as CSV or TSV.

If viewed in a text editor, each of those items appears on a new line. All the other spreadsheet cell contents are still separated by a comma, as in lines 1 and 3 in the example below:

Mr Yussof, Shaharin Yussof

3 Somewhere St

Hometown NSW 1234 Australia, 02 9552 1234, shaharin@mydomain.com

Thus, by definition, the  2nd and 3rd lines are interpreted as new records, even though they are bounded by the commas after Yussof and before the phone number, and therein lies is the problem.

What I'm looking for is, as you correctly stated, a way of somehow embedding a code for CR/LF into the text file that will cause PMail to produce a CR/LF when producing the mailmerge output. Maybe this explanation makes it a bit clearer. Maybe it's just in the too-hard basket, or even the impossible basket, and  I will have to not be so lazy, and separate the two groups - with and without addresses - and mailmerge them separately. It's just not as elegant a solution.

Thanks again anyway, for replying. 

That also worked for me with Windows 7 Starter and ver. 4.63 on a small notebook!

Thanks much!

Toke

[quote user="Ambassador"]

[...]

the claim that my username and password are unacceptable was when using Port 25.

[...]  [/quote]

I am not sure whether this may apply in your case but maybe worth checking.

I had my Internet Service Provider, NOT email provider, blocking all Port 25 (smtp) traffic for ADSL connection if the smtp traffic was not directed through their own SMTP server. In this way I could not access e.g. my own smtp mail server outside the ISP domain or any other smtp servers. Supposedly  to "prevent spammers sending unsolicited email" ... well ...[*-)]  This blocking was only done when a dynamic IP address was assigned by the ISP. The only way around it, with my ISP, was to get/pay a static IP address then they would allow Port 25.

I recall getting quite strange error messages which left me and even the support puzzled ...

Cheers

Thomas-M.


 

[quote user="Thomas R. Stephenson"]Messages  in the File | Open saved messages (Autosaved and other saved messages) are not queued for sending and will remain there until processed for sending or deleted. Stationary though remains in the drafts area until you delete them.[/quote]

I have many messages in the Draft Manager that I have save there while working on them. I use [message][save message][save] or if repeating, [message][save message][replace]. When I successfully send such messages, Pegasus sometimes removes them automatically from Draft Manager. Many times though it just leaves the message in the draft manager after it is successfully sent -- as if it were stationary. 

Very interesting Thomas. Are such "replacement placeholder" options documented anywhere?

They were documented in the file UDG.txt a long time ago.  This was the guide that was used with PMail that allowed you to create the special User Defined Gateways.  I've attached the zip file.  Here's a snippet from the file.

 Command substitution
--------------------

Most of the entries in this screen which accept strings allow
you to use special command substitution characters in the strings:
these are like "escape sequences" which will cause PMail to perform
some substitution at run-time. Command substitutions always begin
with a tilde (~) character, and are always two characters long.
The following command substitutions are recognised:

   This sequence...   Is replaced with this value

   ~c       The full path to the file containing the message
   ~t       The address to which to send this message
            (note: this is not necessarily the To: field)
   ~s       The message's subject field
   ~f       The full form of the message's "from" field
   ~n       The sender's user name in its simplest form
   ~b       The sender's bindery id, as a long hex integer  [Netware only]
   ~8       The first 8 chars in the sender's username
   ~y       The time and date in RFC-822 format
   ~d       A random integer, expressed as 4 hex digits
   ~q       Y if this message is a BCC, N otherwise
   ~%name%  The value of the environment variable %name%.
   ~p       The user's personal name preference   [the ~o should now be used when the name may contain high-bit characters]
   ~x       The name.ext ONLY of the container file (no path)
   ~a       The directory from which PMail was run (or base directory)
   ~h       The current user's home mailbox location
   ~w       The current user's new mail location
   ~~       A single tilde character.

I must report that I tried W32-452.exe for the 6th time just now.  The steps taken were *identical* to those taken in the other 5 tries, i.e. I used UPDATE after the installer informed me it had located the old version in C:\PMAIL\Programs.

This time, the install succeeded.  The new 4.52 prog sees all the old files--it even found an old draft I wasn't aware of.

I can't understand any of this, but I'm happy.....  ~jess

Thanks for the swift reply.  I'm supposing that v4.52 is mostly a compatibility release addressing Windows 7, but there's no drawbacks in installing it on Windows XP (?).

Thankyou Steffan

I found a .cnm file that was causing the problem. Deleted it and all is working again.

Cheers

Richard

> Is there a utility that might fix the following problem?
> I couldn't find a file in the folder it should have been in so I did
> a word search. The search found two emails in the proper folder. But
> the count for the left hand folder tree indicates that it contains
> only one message, and the right hand folder contents pane shows only
> one message.
> I can open the email from the search window but when I push reply
> Pegasus aborts.

Try  the following procedure.  This has worked for several others to restore
the functionality of the  message folders:   

1.  Use Help | About Pegasus Mail | Info to determine your mail
    directory.  Exit Pegasus mail.

2.  Rename the file HIERARCH.PM in your HOME mail directory to
    HIERARCH.SAV.

3.  Run WinPMail.  Your HIERARCH.PM will be re-created and should
    start working correctly.

Note:  This will delete any tray structure you have created and it
           will have to be recreated.  The process will not affect any
           mail of mail folders you have, it only affects the display of
           the folders.    

[quote user="cjon"]

I am trying to import e-mail addresses from Outlook Express into PMail 4.52 (new d/l today) running on a Win 7 machine.  I can convert OE addresses to a tab delimited file, no problem, but I'm darned if I can find a place to let me import it.  In the addressbook tab, I don't find an import option.

Also, I can't turn off the preview panel and get it to "stick".  It works for the current session, but when I close out and re-open, it is back.

All help appreciated.

[/quote]

With the Addressbooks and distribution lists window active, click the Addressbook tab and then Import tab delimited file.

Do you have the Save the Pegasus Mail desktop state between sessions option checked (Tools | Options | Basic settings)? Hope this helps.

Cheers!
Steffan 

I'm assisting a mate with this problem. I have a similar XP system with Pegasus mail and don't have this problem and I've compared many settings between the 2. 

The raw attachment header contains -

--=_alternative 0079438A4A2576B8_=--
--=_mixed 0079438A4A2576B8_=
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="20100128074017800.pdf"
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="20100128074017800.pdf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

The sending email client isn't clearly identified in the headers. The particular email is sent through Lotus Notes but PDF documents from other senders have the same problem.

It seems to have corrected itself.  The email in question seemed normal, though just a bit longer than usual.  It was nothing extraordinary, no attachments.  Guess the system just had a bellyache.[:)]