Be aware that I have marked this problem as resolved and posted a more detailed and informative message on the issue under the subject:

 

 - Henrik Rosenø

 

The 160's are simply html blanks defined in the Windows 1252 character set.  The character set is selected in the Pegasus Mail menu Tools/General Settings/Advanced. There is a drop down list that selects the character set you want.  If you select Rich Text when composing or replyng to Html messages, this value is important, as it tells the recipient how to display text characters.  You also need to look in menu Tools/Options/Messages & Replies to make sure that Rich Text is checked, And also Tools/options/sending mail   the Generate multipart should be checked.

Martin 

The "Change user" function is heavily deprecated now, and will vanish from the next version onwards: the mechanics of maintaining this function are just too hard with the burgeoning features in the program. I'm fairly sure that this function is either directly or indirectly responsible for some of the more difficult to track problems in the program, especially problems with HIERARCH.PM and folder index damage.

Instead, use the -MS commandline switch to start multiple Pegasus Mail sessions for each user you have. This is much the better way of doing things.

Cheers!

-- David --

I think Pegasus can do what you want.

Pegasus stores new messages as *.cnm files in the mailbox directory. Other folders (i.e. copies of sent messages) are stored in compound files + indexes.

Therefore, if you would write a filter rule that moves all new mail where subject <> "specificsubject" to a 'to be read' folder, your separate program could check for new *.cnm files that are at least 1 minute old (give the rule some time to do its work).
Another option is to write a rule that appends the message to a specific file somewhere on your system. Which is best depends on how flexible your 'separate program is'.

Writing filter rules is very straightforward with Pegasus - give it a try.

[quote user="Ted"]

I've been using, and promoting Pegasus since 1995 (using Windows - currently XP Professional SP2). 

Each time an update has been made available I've updated.  Problem is, although the version is listed as being what I have, the layout doesn't change and some of the features aren't available (I know this to be a fact because I've seen the layout and features available on new installations by other people).   It appears as if the original installation is still controlling what I can do and not do with Pegasus.

 I doubt this since I've been upgrading since running PMail for MSDOS and WinPMail v0.9 over the same setup and always have all of the features of the new system.  If the Help | About Pegasus Mail shows the current setup then you'll just have to make the changes as required in Tools | Options to bring them out.
 

I have decided to uninstall Pegasus and re-install the latest version HOWEVER, I'm concerned that by doing so I'll loose all my address books, my folders, my signature files, etc., and etc. so I'm very hesitant to do so.   Could somebody help me through this process so I don't loose what I need??

The way to do a reinstall without losing any data at all in to delete the PMail.ini, State.pmj and hierarch.pm and then re-install the program over the current version.
 

 
Thanks

Ted
 

[/quote]

Thanks, this worked perfectly. Should become part of the help (at least, in German it is not there).

There does seem to be a limit of 2GB for folder size. Could this be a possible solution?

 

Right click on the folder and select 'Information' will tell you the size of the folder. 

[quote user="MJSmit"]

Having the same problem after any distribution list - mine is only 8 recipients. A new message, not to a distribution list but to 4 people, refuses to be sent. The error I get (with last digits of IP addresses and parts of e-mail addresses censored):

 [*] Connection established to 195.241.79.132
>> 0055 220 ESMTP smtp-out3.tiscali.nl. NO UBE/UCE tolerated.
<< 0024 EHLO [192.168.123.152]
>> 0067 250-smtp-out3.tiscali.nl Hello [192.168.ip.ip] [82.171.ip.ip]
>> 0019 250-SIZE 57671680
>> 0016 250-PIPELINING
>> 0010 250 HELP
<< 0054 MAIL FROM:<me@tiscali> SIZE=10751
>> 0008 250 OK
<< 0035 RCPT TO:<someone@hotmail.com>
>> 0014 250 Accepted
<< 0031 RCPT TO:<someoneelse@gmail.com>
>> 0014 250 Accepted
<< 0030 RCPT TO:<fook@gmail.com>
>> 0014 250 Accepted
<< 0031 RCPT TO:<bar@hotmail.com>
>> 0014 250 Accepted
<< 0006 DATA
>> 0056 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
>> 0032 550 Administrative prohibition

This is saying that your server has setup some restrictions on sending.  ( it might be it does not accept a message with more than x number of RCPT TO: addresses) and the only way to solve this is to either get them to relax the restriction or use a different SMTP host (like GMail) that does not restrict the access.  I would recommend you talk to your ISP and ask them the same question. 

[/quote]

Thank YOU David and Nighthawk.  Your solution cleared the problem.  He was trying to clear spam in the wrong folder.

 

Cliffp 

 

[quote user="subelman"]

[quote user="David Harris"]I've just tried this here and everything looks OK - I see normal CR/LF line endings on the message once I have copied it from inbox to local new mail. Can you give me anything more to work with? I'm happy to fix this if we can track down where it's happening.

Cheers!

-- David --

[/quote]

Attached is a ZIP file with the following files with an example:

YFST76U4.CNM - CNM file as it is on the server

7X9M3YU0.CNM - CNM file as retrieved via IMAP to the local workstation. Note the the extra <CR> on every line

TCP000D.MI, TCP000E.MI - IMAP logs on the server

TCP0001.WPM, TCP0002.WPM - the Pegasus logs (-Z 32)

The logs have been edited to x-out the login and password, but are otherwise intact.

One strange thing: I had originally tried to create this example with a much smaller message (CNM file about 1.4 K), and the headers did not get the extra <CR> although the body did get modified.

When I repeated the test with  larger message (attached CNM files, about 4K) both the headers and body got modified.

If there's any more information you need, let me know.

 

Eduardo

 

[/quote]

I never got an ACK back on this. 

 

 

[quote user="malsmith"]

I double checked the ip's and names didn't find any typos.

I agree with your theory that the delivery is failing because the mx resolved to the inaccessible outside address and that the system should not get to the point of trying to deliver out since the is configured as a local address. 

It is equally strange that a test email - sent from the server 'send message' menu to postmaster does get delivered local to the admin user.  it seems like it is only the notification/failure notices that have the bad behavior.

(Thanks again for your help on this problem).

[/quote]

 

Is mail mail.momjunction.com entered into Configuration | Mercury core "Internet name for this system"?

 

Ok, thanks for all the help and trouble. I found out about an smtp host here at work, so I guess I'm stuck with that one...

Cheers,

Casa

As I understand it, v1.4 is the first release to look at the identity name, and not require an identity's e-mail address. Everyone at my location is set to use the Default identity only and I have lots of things disabled (using the disable extension) or removed from the PMAIL run directory.

 
I am not sure if there is some setting or way to "trick" the v1.4 into applying the info to all outbound messages but you can try asking Gerard Thomas (he responds rather quickly to e-mail but hasn't been overly helpful when I've asked how to use his extension in a non-standard way). You might try a DOS-type wildcard or Pegasus-aware variable / substitution. The following are from the UDG.TXT file and may only work at runtime (not when an identity is changed) but they might be of some use:

 
 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
   ~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
   ~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

 

Hello

    Check the menu Tools/Internet Options/ Receiving POP3   The Check for POP mail should be set to zero seconds

Martin
 

[:$] Slightly embarrassed. The folder hierarchy structure that had gone .... that was because my husband's Pmail was open at the same time, and I didn't realise it and thought it was my own.

I did not restore anything, as it seemed it was only some of the options that had changed. At least I hope so. All seems to be well now that I set them back as they were.

Many thanks for the help.

Cheers!

Ellie 

 

 

Thank you for posting that answer.

I have been looking for that answer for the past 5 days, including 3 hours tonight.

Moderators: I suggest that this answer be placed in the sticky FAQs section. 

??  If that fixed the problem, then you should really consider ringing your ISP and getting them to make their server generate more accurate and useful error messages. The error message that it was returning gives no useful indication to the user that authentication might be an issue.

Cheers!

-- David --

[quote user="Thomas Nimmesgern"]

 

Hello!

 

I am not sure whether you can really do what you have in mind.

Given that I have understood your posting, you want to do the following: you moved some of your incoming e-mial messages to folder XYZ, and after moving them, you want Spamhalter to sort out the spam messages of that folder. To the best of my knowledge, this is not possible: Spamhalter checks the incoming messages in your New Mail folder, but it is not designed to check any messages placed in any other folders.

[/quote]

Almost right, I haven't moved any

messages I just want to run spamhalter over my "current" inbox, old

messages and all, instead of JUST new messages. I've had this account

for 8odd years and it's just grown to be huge, I figured 80% of it is

spam, but it's beyond the sit down and sort out stage, I have had

spamhalter running for a couple of months now and it works a treat on

"new" messages, I'm just asking if there is a way to have it process

the OLD messages. (I have it marking the email headers with SPAM, etc).

So then I can just run a mail rule that matches the spam header and

move all those messages to a spam folder, would save me a lot of time

in cleaning up all my old messages.

 

 

Hello!

 

As far as I know, there is no automatic way to have all addresses you can find in a folder added to the "To:"-line of a new message you want to send. However, you are able to collect the addresses of all messages of a folder - the filters mentioned above can help you do so.

 

Just for the record, I want to describe another way, which is rather surprising (at least, I was really surprised when reading about it because it is hidden in the depths of Windows). Here is a step-by-step description:

(1) Open the folder that contains the messages of which you want collect all addresses.

(2) Highlight all messages of that folder. For example, you could do so by highlighting one of the messages in the message list and then pressing [CTRL]+[A].

(3) Now open Notepad, the small editor that is shipped with Windows. It should be blank after being opened.

(4) Place the Notepad window near the Pegasus Mail main window. In order to do so, neither Pegasus Mail nor Notepad may be in fullscreen mode, but both must not be maximised - the windows (Notepad and the Pegasus Mail main window) should be placed adjacent to each other.

(5) Drag'n'drop the messages you have highlighted in step (2) to the Notepad window. (Since both windows are placed next to each other, you can simply drag the messages from the message list to the blank Notepad without further ado.)

(6) A confirmation window opens. Select "Sender's reply address only" (that is the main point of the whole operation) - also choose "None" for the message headers - do not choose to quote the included text.
(These instructions may sound complicated right now - but as soon as you see the confirmation window, the settings I have described are obvious.)

(7) The Notepad window now lists several addresses. They have been extracted from the messages you have selected in step (2).
These addresses are either the "Reply-to:"-addresses or the "From:"-addresses - the "Reply-to:"-address will be extracted if the respective message does have a "Reply-to:"-address defined, the "From:"-address will be extracted if the respective message does not have a "Reply-to:"-address defined.

(8) Now you have a list of the "Reply-to:"- or "From:"-addresses of all messages of a folder; this list is displayed in the Notepad window. Do not close Notepad yet. Create a distribution list in Pegasus Mail.

(9) Select all addresses in Notepad. Again, [CTRL]+[A] is the shortcut. Copy the addresses to the clipboard. [CTRL]+[C] does it.

(10) Open the distribution list you have created in step (8) and copy the addresses into it. [CTRL]+[V] is the shortcut.
Do not forget to save the new distribution list. You may also want to check whether some entries are double.

 
Now, you can send a message and choose that distribution list for the "To:"-line of your message.

-- -- --

 
The filters described in the other postings have some advantages: when set up properly, they can prevent any double entries to be added; and they can be re-used for several folders.
The idea I have suggested here is a kind of a "quick'n'dirty"-method that you can use if you do not want to set up a filter.

 

[quote user="intersys"]

Hello

I have a large number of distribution lists. Some of the lists have both names and email addresses but the majority have just the names. Is there any automated way to associate emails with the names in the distribution list? I know it gets resolved from the main address book...but it would be a great help to view both names and address within the distribution lists themselves.

 

Thank You 

[/quote]

 

Set the email address to "FName Lname" <email@address> in the addressbook and then set the address book to paste the addresses and when you select or drag the addresses from the address book you'll get the name and address.