Happy new year all!

I've trawled the FAQ's and these forums without success. Can somebody tell me what I need to do to reinstate the full column headings when viewing any mailbox in the Three-pane option.

If I disable the Preview Mode and view the long list I have all column headers displayed... Attachments/From/Subject/Date&Time/Size.

 If I view in preview mode I only get th Attachment/From Columns.

 I've tried re-sizing the field headers but can never get to the rightmost border of the "From" Column to be able to drag it across.

 Any pointers please?

 Thanks.

 Gareth
Pembroke School

See my package in the downloads area that allows OpenOffice to send mail via Pegasus Mail. The url is:

http://community.pmail.com/files/folders/pegadd/entry15108.aspx

 The installation requires one program in OpenOffice to be replaced.See the documentation included in this zip file.

Martin

Hi Peggy,

Thanks for your reply. I am glad to hear that I am not the only problem who sees this type of attachment name. I do agree that it is more of an inconvenience than anything else. I like to use Pegasus to catalogue my emails and their attachments, and it would be nice to be able to download my email, open an email and click on the attachment and have the correct attachment name displayed without first saving it a second time to my hard drive.

If anyone has seen this problem and found a way around the inconvenience, I would be grateful for your input.

 Thanks again, Tony.

1. On the server I gave domain and local users list and

   create rights. (Once the mail has been dropped in the Archive I don't

   want anyone but the administrator to be able to view emails.)

Did I do something wrong?

Since the users do not have read access to the public folder they also can't read the pmfolder.id file to read the foldername.  The fallback is to display the directory name.   You might try giving all the users read access to this file and see if this fixes the problem.

First demark under Tools - Options... - General settings - Basic settings: 'Save the Pegasus Mail desktop state between sessions'.
Close Pegasus Mail, start it and take care the Three-pane window is not maximised.
Make your settings, close Pegasus Mail, start it again maximise the Three-pane window and mark Save the Pegasus Mail desktop state between sessions.

Succes.

[quote user="malw"]

An update...

When I look at the 101 files in the queue with a text editor the messages created by Mercury have a format:

$$
T test 2 pm
From: "Malcolm Warden" <malcolm@xxxxx.co.uk>
To: malcolm@xxxx.net
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:58:49 -0000
etc
etc

Messages sent from Pegasus have a format:

From: "Malcolm Warden" <malcolm@xxxxx.co.uk>

To: malcolm@xxxx.net

Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:58:49 -0000
etc
etc

Adding the two lines

$$

T test 2 pm

to the 101 file for a message that has been stuck all day causes it to be processed.

What have I misconfigured that has stopped Pegasus from placing those first two lines in the 101 files?

The Mercury UDG in the Pegasus Mail directory.  Use pconfig.exe from the WinPMail program directory and open the MERCURY user defined gateway.  The UDG should have a line specifying the use og glue headers like this:

Simple message headers? :  'Glue' headers 

TIA

Malcolm

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I had the same problem after upgrading from 4.41 to 4.52 and ran pconfig.exe.

I selected "Standalone configuration" by hitting enter and this displayed the following about my mailbox locations (home and new)

c:\Pmail\mail\~N

I changed the ~N to Admin and it worked no problem.

Good luck

AV is good when any method of introducing files to your system occurs, not just mail. So AV also saves you from downloads via Web, FTP, IM, memory sticks, camera cards, and MP3 devices etc.

BTW you can use Virscan as a kind of AV, by using the DenyExtensions option in Virscan.ini to completely ban extension type(s)

Martin

 

Hi John,

Did you set - for every identity separate - the Internet options? You can find them under Tools - Internet options...
So you select ie. Identity 'Joe' and you change the Internet options and the settings (I wrote earlier) under Tools - Options... - General settings - Basic settings

It isn't possible to set up a "To" column in the New and Read inboxes.

Succes.

Hi, I am subscribed to the Webcomic/blog combination

nicky510.com . In the Jan. 1 edition a paragraph starting with "A ride

on the Futurama of General Motors" is truncated, with the last

(truncated) sentence being 'I liked 1' A look at the 'raw view' of the

Email reveals the rest of the paragraph. I find this problem when using

Pegasus 4.41 as well as 4.5. IE renders the Email the same as Opera.

The whole paragraph is a single line of over 1000 characters and a line in a email message must be no longer than 1000 characters including the carriage return and line feed.  The email clients that use a web browser tio view the mail do not have any problem but a RFC compliant mail client will in many cases. 

Tell the people sending you the message to make sure that none of their lines exceed this line length and you'll not have the problem.

 

RFC 2822                Internet Message Format               April 2001

2.1.1. Line Length Limits

   There are two limits that this standard places on the number of
   characters in a line. Each line of characters MUST be no more than
   998 characters, and SHOULD be no more than 78 characters, excluding
   the CRLF.

   The 998 character limit is due to limitations in many implementations
   which send, receive, or store Internet Message Format messages that
   simply cannot handle more than 998 characters on a line. Receiving
   implementations would do well to handle an arbitrarily large number
   of characters in a line for robustness sake. However, there are so
   many implementations which (in compliance with the transport
   requirements of [RFC2821]) do not accept messages containing more
   than 1000 character including the CR and LF per line, it is important
   for implementations not to create such messages.

   The more conservative 78 character recommendation is to accommodate
   the many implementations of user interfaces that display these
   messages which may truncate, or disastrously wrap, the display of
   more than 78 characters per line, in spite of the fact that such
   implementations are non-conformant to the intent of this
   specification (and that of [RFC2821] if they actually cause
   information to be lost). Again, even though this limitation is put on
   messages, it is encumbant upon implementations which display messages
   to handle an arbitrarily large number of characters in a line
   (certainly at least up to the 998 character limit) for the sake of
   robustness.

 

[quote user="SteelCurtain67"]

Just a bump to see if someone can help.  I am sure someone must know how to set this to work.  Or if no one knows is there another help source?

This type of query normally will just get a negative type answer.  No answer generally means that one one knows a solution to your problem or they do not understand the problem. You are better off to restate the question. 

As to the other help sources there is also the PM-win mailing list and you will get to many users that are not in the community.  There is also the WinPMail-support@pmail.gen.nz and tech-support@pmail.gen.nz but you'll get the same Pegasus Mail support people you get here.

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Hello All,

please apologize when my issue has already been solved somewhere, but I just did not find anything.

(I am running Pegasus Mail v 4.41 (Win32) Jul 16, 2006, standalone)

I just solved a problem which I had when being re-creating lost mailboxes in PM therefore I checked
some of the setup files. I wondering about some entries in the pmail.ini file regarding my additional
mailboxes which are located at different providers. F.e.:

Directory to place incoming POP3 mail     = G:\PMAIL\MAIL\[default user]
Transport control word                    = 67332
SMTP relay host for outgoing mail         = smtp [smtp server of default user]
search mask to locate outgoing messages   = G:\PMAIL\MAIL\[default user]\*.PMX
Alternative From: field for message       =  [mail address of default user]

Although sending and receiving mails is working fine with all addresses I do not know how these
entries have been created , resp. have not been updated and overwritten. Although whether this
could cause any problems.

Thank you very much in advance for your kind support!

Regards, I.J.

By the way: I am very glad to hear that D.H. will continue. I was seriously sad when I heard he would
stop PM!

 

Thank you for your help. I found Mercury specified as a UDG (using pcconfig.exe - as you suggested) and deleted it.

I am now able to send out e-mails with Pegasus Mail again.

I would still like to use Mercury Win32 at some later time to facilitate the testing of sending e-mails from a web application I am creating  on my home on which I have the apache server running, so I expect to be back with more posts on this forum.

 

 

> I want to move Pegasus to a new machine (ZZ), leaving all the storage
> on the old machine (JJ).  I copied the program directory to the new
> machine and used PCONFIG to tell it that the mailboxes were in
> \\JJ\E$\MAIL (PMAIL.CFG confirms this was successful).  When I start
> Pegasus on the new machine with "-i vefatica" (who has a mailbox in
> \\JJ\E$\MAIL) it comes up like a new install, creating the default
> files in \\JJ\E$\MAIL, and not recognizing my user specification.  What
> am I doing wrong?  Thanks.

Should have used \\JJ\E$\MAIL\~n (or ~8) so that this would be a uulti-user setup.

[quote user="eug4not"]

Hi,

Sometimes I receive Emails having remote-linked graphcs. I know how to instruct Pegasus to down-load the remote-linked graphics to complete the rendition of the email and to print it in a browser. I need to know how to forward the Email to another party with the remote-linked graphics included.

Either forward it as an attachment to a new message or forward it without editing.   In either case the message format with included URLs is retained.

Sincerely,

Ben H. Tongue 

[/quote]

I fixed the problem by changing the security option from direct SSL to STARTTLS. Seems to be working okay.

 Steve

 

Thanks - will try this!

Jon

I managed to get Pegasus running again after I killed runddl32.exe. But

I do not know which program used this dll. Anybody any idea what

program is incompatibel with Pegasus and uses rundll32.exe? Or does

anyone know how to see which program called this dll?

The does exactly what it says, it runs a dll as a program.  You can checkout for more details but if this is called by WinPMail calling a Windows function and it crashes then WinPMail will be closed by the OS to restore the system.  This was what was happening with Acrobat calling the shell with invalid parameters when WinPMail asked the OS to add an attachment.  Obviously Acrobat does things by sitting between the programs and the OS.

That may be working.  I'll watch the folder I'm shunting the spam into to see if I get things I didn't expect in there.

 
Edited follow up: 

Working fine.  I notice the column that has normally has the Date: field is replaced by the Delivery-Date when the file is moved making the date column of message display non-blank.  Works, got this bit of recurring  spam out of my inbox.

 

Thanks,

Clutch 

[quote user="Goody"]

I am trying out Pegasus as a possible client from TheBat which is driving me nuts with bugs.  When receiving HTML (from vendors) I have to manually select  images in the message to be downloaded. Selected messages will not download images and will stay on the preview screen. I have to go to another folder to clear the screen.  When coming back to the previous message that I tried to load images from, it is still has not loaded images and again will sit there until I switch views. 

1. What should I check to see why the images are not downloading?

Not sure why the images are not downloading, could be they are being blocked.

2. Why does the message remain in the preview area even though I have selected a new message in the same directory?

Again not sure what yuo are seeing  since when I select the next message it displays.  The is one thing I would check though.  Got to Tools | Options | Advanced and set the winsock to load always.

3. How can I load images automatically without manual intervention ?

Tools | Options | Message reader and selection the option you want

From the help:

Handling remote-linked graphics in incoming mail

An increasing number of mail messages arriving in your mailbox are likely to be HTML  messages containing graphics. In a perfect world, all these messages would be what is known as MHTML messages, or messages using specially constructed HTML data that allows any graphics referenced in the message to be contained in the message as well. Unfortunately, laziness and ignorance on the part of many sites generating these messages means that a significant number of them will not be formatted correctly, but will contain remote graphic links - that is, links that will require your mail program to establish a connection to a remote site to retrieve the graphics they represent.

Remote-linked graphics are a really bad thing, for two key reasons: the first is that they mean the message can only be viewed correctly when you are online: if you want to view the message while you're away from an Internet link, you typically will not be able to see it in its correct form. By contrast, properly-packaged MHTML messages are always viewable and require no further connection or waste of bandwidth to retrieve their graphics.

Much more seriously, though, remote-linked graphics present an insidious and extremely dangerous opportunity for unscrupulous senders to invade your privacy: by giving the remote link a few simple characteristics, it is possible for the sender to gain a considerable amount of information about anyone who downloads the graphics as they read the message. The information that can be derived includes: the fact that you have read the message; the time and date you read the message; how often you read it; whether you forwarded it to someone else; your computer's IP address; your geographical location (certainly your city location, but potentially down to the street level). Over time, this information can be tracked to build a profile of your online behaviour and the type of mail you read. And just in case you didn't get it the first time, all this information can be derived simply because when you read the message, your mail program retrieved the remote-linked graphics it contained.

Here at Pegasus Mail, we think remote-linked graphics in e-mail are a serious and much under-rated security threat: for this reason, Pegasus Mail will *never* automatically download any remote-linked graphics in an e-mail message unless you have specifically told it to do so. We accept that there are some occasions where you know the sender of the message and can be fairly sure of that person's integrity, or where you have decided that the risks are acceptable; in such cases, Pegasus Mail allows you to right-click the message and choose Show pictures, at which point it will go away and retrieve any remote-linked graphics it contains (note that graphics in proper MHTML messages are always displayed correctly and automatically, and entail no privacy risks). You can also indicate that certain senders are always to be trusted, and that Pegasus Mail can automatically download remote-linked graphics in mail from those senders if it senses that you are online.

To indicate that a particular sender's remote-linked graphics should be downloaded automatically, click the Exceptions button in the Display remote-linked graphics... control group on this page and add the address of the sender in the dialog that opens. From the time you do this, Pegasus Mail will automatically behave as if you have right-clicked the message and chosen Show pictures every time it displays messages from that sender.

Automatically if a connection exists  Rather against our better judgment, we have allowed ourselves to be persuaded to add a setting that tells Pegasus Mail it should always attempt to display remote-linked graphics in any message, if it detects that an Internet connection exists. We recommend in the strongest terms that you think very hard before enabling this option - we are not being completely paranoid about this, you really *do* expose yourself to severe invasion of privacy by doing so. You have been warned.

Goody

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