Move all of the *.CNM files out of the new mail directory and try again.  It should now open normally.  You can then put the messages back one at a time until you find the problem message.  

It's probaby going to be a really large message.  If you are using content control then I'd recommend that you set a limit on the message size so you are not scanning these large files with encoded attachments.

1.    Use  Tools | Spam and content controls | Content control...

2.    Select and edit the control definition

3.    Select the "Message tests" tab.

4.    Enter 8000 in "Check at most this many bytes in each message"

 

Could you forward one of those voicemail messages to me at support@tstephenson.com for analysis?  I would like a copy of the cnm file from the new mail directory zipped if possible.

 

 

Thanks, Thomas!!  I fiddled around with it and found I needed to right-click the inbox, then click "Folder Options" to get to the header and body cache CLEAR buttons.  When I did this, I went back out and clicked the messages and VOILA! I could see the from and to addresses in the message, and I can see the contents of the file attachments.

Man, my IT guy about had a cow when I said it was fixed (but then I let him see your E-mail).[:D]

Thanks many times over!! 

 

 

Thanks Erik,

I have just come back from a 3 day holiday to find 143 spam messages and 4 real messages.  Still, it only took about 60 seconds to:

1.         Mark all delete (highlight first and last message while holding down Shift)
2.         Scan manually and individually overmark the real messages as download and delete
3          Make it so.

Thanks to the spammers complete lack of imagination, the spam is easy to spot, with a bit of practice, and if you start out with the default instruction of delete, then over-right as required, it is very quick - and I think I'm better at it than any form of computer filter I've tried for the simple reason that there are never any false positives.

What I reallly need is something that deletes them on the server as soon as they are received, so that after a three week holiday I do not find 1000 emails to sift, nor that something important has been lost because there was no room left in the inbox.  My ISP is supposed to have one, but does it work - nah !

But for the moment, after experimenting with filters at all levels, I'm sticking to my DIY filter.

That said, your suggestions may be useful to those who do like to use the filters - I'm opting out of the discussion from now on.

Regards,

Philip Jones

check yout quede mail. You may have a bad file there.

Really strange indications.  First thing I would do in use File | Review queued mail and verify that that large message is not still in the queue.

Problem solved, thank you for your help.

It was indeed a question of user rights in "Outgoing mail path" - security setting were allright but those sharing permission were read only -argh!

Thank you for pointing me into right direction - I was somewhat confused about where Pegasus was writing the 101-files, of some mysterious reason I was looking for them under pmail-path not mercury.

New server is up and running.

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What is the meaning of that last setting "Force all mail through?" ? Where else could the mail possibly go than through Mercury?

[quote user="Paolo_DF"]

Hi all.

I started using Mercury in a new way (to me, at least).

This is what I did:

1. retrieve messages with Mercury from email account 1@...

2. use popfile daemon in order to classify messages

3. deliver to local user 1

4. apply filter in order to forward only non-spam messages to email address 2@...

This way, I use my old email address 1@... because everyone knows it, but receive all my mail on email address 2@... because it is a fresh address.

 

Now, of course, there is this local user 1 mailbox that *never* get any access, so it starts filling up.

 

And here is the question: how may I delete messages in local mailbox 1 since I never access it and only use it as a buffer?

 

Thank you all for your reply. 

[/quote]

 

If you are never going to look at these then why not simply use a Mercury/32 filter to delete all of the messages marked  spam by POPfileD before they are delivered to the user.  This may require yuo to leave the local user blank in the MercuryD setup and alias this mail to user@local.domain so that core have a chance to filter them.

 Personally though, I use the MOVE action to move all of these messages

to a spam user account so I can check for false positives.
 

 

 

Right now that is the only possible way to do this in Pegasus Mail.  You can enter a fixed Bcc: address however these will not be a copy self type message so you will not be able to send use the right click "Resend this message"

 

1.  Use Help | About Pegasus Mail | Info to locate the HOME mail directory.

2.  Use File Manager or Explorer and go to this directory and delete the zero length PMO, PMX and PMW files.

Sorry, did not see that. Well, let's hope! It's probably not a high-priority thing for them.

[quote user="damurphy"]

Mercury Mail Server is rejecting emails of the form <<Sender> name@sender.com>

Appendix C of RFC822 (which defines email address formats in headers)

suggests that including the name in front of the email address (as

"Fred bloggs<fred@somewhere.com>") is perfectly acceptable, and

even encouraged.

This needs to be fixed since the Mercury server rejects the incoming emails as emails to unknown addressees. 

[/quote]

 

<Sender> name@sender.com is an improper form.  The forms are "Sender" <name@sender.com>, or Sender <name@sender.com> or name@sender.com (Sender)  In addition, I'd check to make sure that you have matching <> where required.

 

[quote user="philip e j jones"]If I hilite a section of an incoming message in either preview or open mode, then try and past it into another application, the whole message is pasted. Is there a way to cut and paste part of a message. I know I can do this if I open reply then cut and paste - but its just one more fiddly annoyance that seems unnecessary.[/quote] I do this all the time so I'm not sure what to tell you.  There might be something specific about the messages you are working with though that causes a problem with the copy/paste.

 

It sounds like your folder set-up is trashed.  The .cnm files are the individual messages in the new mail folder.  Try copying them using windows explorer to a safe place, and then do a complete new install of Pegasus Mail to a different folder.  Copy the cnm files to your this second new mail folder and try again.  Avoid duplicating names of folders.

 

I've read this post as I'm having the same problem with IMAP with my

Gmail account.  I don't have IMAP setup with any other account so I

can't say if it is a Gmail problem or not, but from the above posts it

seems that it may not be limited to Gmail.

In GMail enable Setting | Labs | Advanced  IMAP controls.  Then in the IMAP4 settings try selecting "Do not automatically expunge messages" and see if this helps.  IIRC, it's the moving to the trash folder and expunging the original message that is causing the problem.  FWIW, this is the only IMAP4 server I have with this particular problem with deleting with an immediate purge. maybe that's why GMail added these "advanced" options.

 

Hello!

[quote user="François Blais"]

[quote user="irelam"] Make sure you close Pegasus Mail by using its menu File/Close rather than the system 'X' button in the right corner of the Window. Martin[/quote]

What? Pegasus still has that bug?

I hope this is fixed in 5.0!

[/quote]

I am not sure whether this really has something to with the problem reported by the thread starter.
I have several Pegasus Mail user; for testing purposes, I closed every of them by clicking on the X in the right corner of the Pegasus Mail main window. Each time I closed it that way, Pegasus Mail closed normally without any problems.

Thomas S.'s suggestion concerning the rights sounds useful to me.

There may be another reason for Pegasus Mail crashing when being closed. If you close Pegasus Mail while a POP3-check is being done, Pegasus Mail is likely to crash (at least, this is what I have experienced). Is Pegasus Mail checking for new messages while your are closing Pegasus Mail?

I can't duplicate your experience.  In the message composition window, I can select an alternate identity, and for that particular email, the identity has been changed.  I am not using sigs, but each of my identities has a different "sender name", and the resulting emails always carry the name associated with the identity selected while composing the message.

[quote user="PaulW"]

I would try disabling all the addons you have, one-by-one, until you go back to a stable system.[/quote]

In addition:

A bit of a wild guess ... , but check your Antivirus system and settings. It may as well have an Anti-Spam system integrated (so you would run two). Some systems actually place themselves in between your Pegasus Mail and your ISP and seamlessly takeover and control your email downloads and sending. This may actually explain why your PM is in 'offline' mode but you still receive those and other(?) messages. I would completely deactivate and check your AV program and do some tests.

Let us know.

Cheers

Thomas
 

I seem to remember Pegasus used to multi-task pretty well, both when downloading new messages and when sending messages.  For a while I've noticed that I can still do other activities while I'm downloading, but if I upload a big message, Pegasus appears to be locked up solid.  Often it doesn't even update its progress indicator message for most of the upload time.  It does eventually finish uploading and unfreeze.

I originally starting seeing this in 4.41.  Then I finally got sick of the long-lines-wrapping bug in 4.41 and went back to 4.31, and it's still doing it there.  I just switched from XP to Vista and that didn't change anything either.

Nothing has changed in my ISP connection.  Other utillities (e.g. ftp) can upload at full speed without hanging.  I have no outgoing-mail virus scanner.

What might have caused this to change?  How can I prevent Pegasus from hanging while uploading?

Thanks,
Gary

Is there any way to do this now? Also, how can I run a filter against an IMAP Inbox to move old messages to a local folder; I have created a rule set and also the local folder but so far have not found a way to run the filter against the Inbox. I've set the filter to run on 'open' rather than 'close', but upon opening the Inbox, the filter isn't run.  Shouldn't autofilter folders work against incoming IMAP mail too?

EDIT: I am now waiting for the results of selecting Tools ->  Mail Filtering Rules -> Apply General Rule Set to Folder to see if that runs the rule set against an IMAP Inbox...

EDIT: That works OK...

Still wondering about how to have this done automatically without needing to open and close the folder. Cygwin is running on this host - could I set up a cron job to do this?

 

Thanks for any help