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douguk posted Jun 10 '22 at 9:55 am

Hi,

Think it was richu who solved this, thanks, but for me the problem still exists. Followed the instructions which seemed to work well. Still stuck at user/pass word not accepted. I just cant see what is missing.
It is Firefox latest version and win 10. Mail via the win10 and normal browser login is ok.
Suggestions welcome, after using Peggy sine uni am reluctant to give in to MS/Goog juggernaut
Many thanks, Doug

Thanks for reply, not sure how to reply to a response here. Ignore firefox. Yes done all the steps and all seemed fine. Entered pass and user again, still same. Odd one.

recent by douguk · Jun 11 '22 at 2:35 pm

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Requesting Update from David regarding OAuth2

Pavarotti posted Jun 8 '22 at 1:38 am

Now that May 30th has come and gone, and we are all still able to access Gmail using app-specific passwords, don't you think it's overdue for you to retract your prior comments about the necessity to use OAuth2 to access Gmail?

There was ample evidence that OAuth2 was not going to be required, and yet your comments on this subject appear to have ignored all evidence to the contrary. Your continued silence, after May 30th, deserve to be clarified asap. Thanks.

recent by butchwalls · Jun 9 '22 at 9:47 pm

OAuth2 Update

Brian Fluet posted Jun 9 '22 at 3:24 pm

This was posted on the PM-Win LISTSERV list this morning by Max Devlin:

The Pmail newsflash has been updated:

https://www.pmail.com/newsflash.htm

UNSUBSCRIBE

mike@mattos.ca posted Jun 8 '22 at 1:33 pm

How do you unsubscribe an alias?

I have a placekeeper domain (let's call it NOSPAM.ORG) that forwards all mail, including PMAIL LISTSERV

I subscribed as pegasus_user@nospam.org

I can't send email as pegasus_user@nospam.org, gmail and my ISP send mail as
REPLY TO: pegasus_user@nospam.org
ON BEHALF OF: pegasus_user@nospam.org

but the sender is my gmail or ISP account

About once a year I try to unsubscribe when I see how much mail is in my junk folder

recent by mike@mattos.ca · Jun 8 '22 at 4:16 pm

Pegasus mail hanging problem when clicking any folder?

zahidmaqsood posted Jun 7 '22 at 12:37 pm

Hi All,

We are facing an problem in pegasus, when we open any folder in pegasus software it hanged and not open any folder, did anybody have solution please let me know.

pegasus

recent by Brian Fluet · Jun 8 '22 at 1:39 pm

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Just so everyone understands what OAuth2 is really about ...

Michael posted May 8 '22 at 3:20 pm

Please take a look at , you might enjoy reading it, here comes the starter:

According to the old joke, a camel is just a horse that was designed by a committee: when it came to OAUTH2, though, what the committee produced was more like a two-wheeled donkey.

http://www.pmail.com/devnews.htm

recent by sbrook · Jun 5 '22 at 2:20 am

Microsoft's 365 plans

Michael posted Jun 2 '22 at 5:47 pm

I haven't seen this before, so here is . To whom it may concern, there's also a link to Authenticate an IMAP, POP or SMTP connection using OAuth.

How to set up a multifunction device or application to send email using Microsoft 365 or Office 365

IERenderer 2.6.5.15 has been released.

Brian Fluet posted Jun 1 '22 at 7:11 pm

Thanks Michael!

I will follow up with any observations worthy of a post.

Setting an App Password for Gmail

tcs1752890 posted May 30 '22 at 4:33 pm

I am very confused about what will happen at the end of May regarding Gmail but I am assuming that I can still use Pegasus Mail (SMTP and POP3 mode) if I setup an app password.

Please could someone explain how to do this and what the effect is. Will I have to enter this password every time I login?

Google Gmail

recent by tcs1752890 · May 31 '22 at 11:17 am

Filetype PDF not recognized

PM-1 posted May 30 '22 at 9:35 am

Hi,

why the pdf files will be never recognized as Acrobat file?
After i put the filetype in the rules for open files with Windowsapplication it will open normal after click but the type is always shown as unknown.
I have also tried to edit filetype.pm but without any result.

Is this a general bug and will be fixed with PMail 5?

recent by Brian Fluet · May 30 '22 at 7:27 pm

Where the auto save files saved in pegasus?

zahidmaqsood posted May 30 '22 at 7:50 am

Hi everyone, I have opened an excel file directly by pegasus and worked lot on it and then press save but the content did not saved , did anybody knows where it saved or any other cache files which contains the content that i have added, Thank in Advance.

pegasus autosave

recent by Brian Fluet · May 30 '22 at 1:30 pm

Hanging on "Opening new mail folder"

Harvey Segal posted May 25 '22 at 1:04 pm

This occurred straight after I tried to send a very large file which failed with an error message. I tried it again with the same result.

Not bothered now about sending the file, the problem is I can't use Pegasus.

recent by Harvey Segal · May 25 '22 at 2:33 pm

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VCALENDAR

PHR posted May 21 '22 at 11:37 am

Hello,
I just received a zero-byte message with two attachments (without names) as follows :
Alternative message formats :
Plain text - 0.0k
HTML text - 0.4k
Text - 2.1k

HTML text attachment content is :

Text attachment content is a Microsoft Exchange 2010 VCALENDAR appointment :

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
METHOD:REQUEST
PRODID:Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
VERSION:2.0
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:W. Europe Standard Time
....................................
END:VCALENDAR

The only way I found to get the message content was to save the Text attachment in a text file, to open it with Notepad and to find the lines with tags DTSTART and DTEND :

DTSTART;TZID=W. Europe Standard Time:20220601T090000
DTEND;TZID=W. Europe Standard Time:20220601T120000

Is there an easyest procedure in PM to open this type of message ?.
Many thanks for your help ...

recent by Brian Fluet · May 23 '22 at 1:53 pm

User name request at installation

Niall Martin posted May 20 '22 at 8:39 pm

My wife has just acquired a new laptop computer. All her files were installed in place. When I attempted to complete the update a file appeared demanding her username and all likely ones were rejected I'm sure this has been asked before but I want to know how to get out of this.

Username.

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OAuth2 Update

Michael posted May 19 '22 at 2:36 pm

See

http://www.pmail.com/newsflash.htm

recent by Michael · May 20 '22 at 12:23 pm

501

Gmail, OAuth, and "Less secure" apps

Pavarotti posted May 17 '22 at 6:53 pm

I've been trying to understand the ramifications of Google's drive towards Oauth. I'm still a Eudora user, and I've been looking for alternatives, including Pegasus and Pandora.

No one could accuse Google of trying very hard to describe the upcoming May 30 changes consistently, or with clarity. In common with many, including David, I took their warnings to indicate that Oauth will become mandatory.

However a closer reading of at least some of their help pages does not support that conclusion. Look for example at

I think it's quite reasonable to conclude from the above that 1) turning on 2-Step Verification, and 2) creating app-specific passwords will be sufficient.

Naturally all will become clear in 2 weeks, and perhaps we'll all lose access then, but maybe there is some light at the end of this particular depressingly poorly documented tunnel?

I will say that I don't see why having Google accept an app-specific password instead of the one I used to use provides any security benefit whatsoever. But there again maybe I was atypical by already using a long randomized password.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255

recent by Karl_F · May 19 '22 at 9:38 pm

Encoded subject lines are shown with extra spaces

mhi posted May 17 '22 at 9:37 pm

In the header section of a Pegasus Mail message-reader window, some subject lines appear with unwanted spaces in the middle. An example from a message received today: shown as

Subject: Order delivered: Cupri nol Garden Furniture Sta…

"Cuprinol" is the intended word, without a space in the middle. It's shown correctly in the New mail folder contents list, but shown with the space in the top of the message reader.

The raw view of the message shows this for the subject, with a line break for continuation where the inappropriate space is:

Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?=F0=9F=93=A6_Order_delivered:_Cupri?=
 =?UTF-8?Q?nol_Garden_Furniture_Sta=E2=80=A6?=

According to RFC 2047, section 6.2,

When displaying a particular header field that contains multiple 'encoded-word's, any 'linear-white-space' that separates a pair of adjacent 'encoded-word's is ignored. (This is to allow the use of multiple 'encoded-word's to represent long strings of unencoded text, without having to separate 'encoded-word's where spaces occur in the unencoded text.)

This is very far from a major problem, but it is a minor annoyance. The extra space is not new in Pegasus Mail 4.80.

UTF8 RFC2047 display

Hobbling along at the mercy of Internet companies.

Orpheus posted May 16 '22 at 4:50 pm

I've loved using Pegasus Mail these past 30 years, since I found it 1991, but I now fear my emailing future - due to what the internet companies are imposing on users like myself in the supposed interests of safety and security.

Pegasus has always worked brilliantly for me but just recently my ISP (Yahoo) has begun refusing CCs and/or BCCs to certain addresses when I am using Pegasus. At such times Pegasus now shows me a message about alleged "pipelining". I've yet to work out how to get round this problem. I know, however, that it's to do with restrictions introduced by either the ISP or one or more of the tech companies.

For my Android device the closest email client I've found to Pegasus has been K-9, which I've been using for about 10 years, although it's nowhere near as sophisticated as Pegasus. But K-9 too has now begun presenting some emailing difficulties due to decisions taken by the tech companies.

At this moment I am finding the Yahoo app the most reliable email client in terms of immediate sending and receiving, but the Yahoo app is so pathetically basic, and like K-9 it doesn't allow me to manage all my incoming and outgoing emails in detail.

I have the Gmail app on my Android device too, and it's reliable, though not as rapid for me as the Yahoo app. But I have a dreadful feeling that Google has manipulated matters so that come the end of May, or some point thereafter, I may have to use Google's Gmail app only for trouble-free sending and receiving. One reason why being confined to using Gmail irks me is that I don't want Google being in possession of all my contacts information and every email I have sent and received until such time as I log into their site and delete material. I much prefer to keep things "local", on my own computer.

So I hope that come the end of May I will find some way of emailing so that I will continue to use Pegasus Mail as my primary email client, even though my emailing life may no longer be as trouble-free as it used to be.

I would be interested to hear if any of my above thoughts strike chords in other Pegasus users.

Pegasus Yahoo K-9 Gmail

recent by Brian Fluet · May 17 '22 at 6:50 pm

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Any issues with the latest IER release anyone?

Michael posted May 8 '22 at 3:12 am

Since David Harris is about to release his OAUTH2-ready (for GMail) release I would like to know whether anyone updating to my latest IER release (three days ago) - as announced by its auto-update notification - encountered any bigger issues which I would need to fix before he includes this version with his Pegasus Mail update, please.

TIA

recent by Michael · May 11 '22 at 8:07 pm

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OAUTH2 for Outlook

aurorawatcher posted May 8 '22 at 9:20 am

Does anyone know if OAUTH2 for Outlook is being implemented at the same time as for GMail? University College London started rolling out OAUTH2 on their Outlook email system as from 3rd May.

recent by Michael · May 8 '22 at 11:31 pm

Subject: Order delivered: Cupri nol Garden Furniture Sta…

Pending draft