The "Preserve HTML in replies" option only has any meaning for messages in multipart/alternative format - that is, the format where the message contains both a plain text and an HTML version of the same message.

If someone sends you a pure HTML message (i.e, one where the only part is an HTML part), then there is no text version for me to fall back on, so I have to use what's there. I tried tag-stripping the HTML at one stage, to produce a "plain text" version, but it doesn't work - there's just too much going on in an HTML message to be able to do that (the results were unusable at least half the time).

It's just one of those things, unfortunately. If the only content I have available to me is HTML, then I'm more or less forced to take it formatting and all.

Cheers!

-- David --

BobKellok's recollection was right on the money: -E works if PMAIL.CFG does not exist.

Thanks! 

AFAIK (I used some years ago a plugin for OpenOffice.org), you need to have both programs opened and then, if you wish to send the message immediately, to enable the "send the message immediately" option. The behaviour was that, if I closed the Office program, Pegasus Mail didn't send the file for me.

But if you need to review the message, you need to use the Queue Manager, and send it manually (I do it so) or automatically ("send every....", in Tools/Internet Options)

Hope this useful...

Thomas, 

Thanks for the info. That cleared the 'User Name' problem but left a Winpm-32.exe error and PM would not start. This was solved by removing all PM files, doing new install and copying the contents of the old ADMIN folder en bloc to the new ADMIN folder. All the messages, folders and Internet details appeared. There was a small problem: some of the folders were duplicated with messages from December last year!! A bit of judicious pruning and copying cured that.

 Thanks again for your help

 Alan 

This is about mailboxes, Kieran?

If so, Thunderbird did, and still does, used the mbox format; so nothing has changed there.

Frankly, since Pegasus can handle mbox, as well as its own native format, I'd don't know I'd even bother to convert.  I think I'd make a copy of the folder/s I wanted to move--you'll find it/them in:

C:/Kieran/Application Data/Thunderbird/Profiles/<Some random number>/Mail/Local Folders

After that, I'd make a new mailfolder inside Pegasus's GUI and choose "Unix" format.  Pegasus will then give that file a name consisting of a (random?) number and the file extension .MBX.  If you rename your mbox file to the same name and drop it into the same place in the hierarchy, on the C: drive where the mailfolder resides, it will then over-write it, and next time you open the program you'd see the mails there.  From there you could use drag-and-drop within the program's GUI to move the mails.

But go with the converter, if you find it easier.  I haven't used Dawn, but it seems to be what most people use.  The Thunderbird format hasn't changed, so there's no problem there.

 

Sorry... I didn't see your reply when I posted what's above.  Will go and check my Peg. Mail now with those details provided.

Thanks heaps.

Hello!

[quote user="Aidan C A Hopkins"]I am currently in the process of encouraging my employer to adopt Pegasus Mail. He seems very impressed so far! I am currently looking for any comparative reviews of Pegasus, Eudora, Squirrelmail and Roundcube (the main competing products) and my researches to date have mostly brought up rather old information. If anybody has URIs of recent independent articles/reviews they would be much appreciated and would help the cause! TIA[/quote]

How is Pegasus Mail adoption going on ?
BTW, I like the following two sentences about Pegasus Mail 4.41 in Softpedia's comparative review (2006-AUG-05):

The finish line of today's race is called Pegasus Mail, one of those programs that, from time to time, happen to leave me speechless.

What I should say is "This is Pegasus Mail, take it, install it and let it fly, I don't have anything else to add about it!", but I'll try to make you understand why I would do such a thing.

Lovely description, is it not? 

Regards, Roman

Unfortunately, no, not without actually altering the program's Windows-level resources. This is one of those things that would be routinely translated as part of the process of producing a version of the program for a new language, but it currently can't be translated in isolation.

It's a perfectly fair suggestion though, and I'll try to note it as something to do in future.

Cheers!

-- David --


 

A PS on this:  it now appears the delays I was getting must have been due to interactions between McAfee v11 and the version of COMODO Pro firewall I was using.  I upgraded the latter to the latest v3.0 yesterday, and these connection delays (it was happening whenever Pegasus connected either via POP3 or SMTP) have magically disappeared.

This sounds too easy.

Simply create another user account.

On my pegasus mail system I have several user accounts

Each has a different file structure, but the PUBLIC folders remain

the same.

I would create a user name by year, for instance

If that gets too cumbersome you could install 2 copies of pegasus into different

directories and have each copy access different PUBLIC files.

This should get around the problem of two user files within the smae 

ddirectory pulling up ALL the public folders.

Okay, so I shall try to contact my provider. Thank you very much for your help!

Martin 

[quote user="Thomas R. Stephenson"]Someone must have at least told you the name of the server software when they were proposing the change.  Is this a Windows server? [/quote]

Actually I only spoke to a member of staff there who told me that they are having this whole new system (leased) set up by a consultant. I do not know the type of server at all. I will probably just wait and see what happens, as it is really nothing to do with me (except that I set the Pmail arrangement up for them and I would hate it all to be broken). They do keep backups of everything, so if all else fails they can restore their settings in some way.

I briefly spoke to the consultant who said that he knew Pegasus Mail. He ran it from the early 90's, though probably not much recently as he knew nothing of David's recent shift in gears. He agreed that it all sounds most promising, though. We didn't do much chatting other than that. He did say the server was on back order and that he would most probably set it all up the way it is now, until the server arrives.

Thanks Thomas,

Ellie 

[quote user="Nikosandros"]

Hi,

I've just deleted a folder by accident.  Is there any way to undo the mistake?

 [/quote]

Not from within the program. Pegasus Mail doesn't use any trash system. Perhaps you can use a 3rd party undelete utillity. There are some available from download sites like tucows, download.com and such.

txs Rob,

just what i needed to know !
 

V-com, made by Avanquest.  Current versions include Fix-it Utilities and System Suite (versions 7 are most recent).   I have used this for over 6 years, even though I did try AVG, Nortons, CA, PCillin, MacAffee, to name a few.  In my opion, Fix-it contains the absolute best AV program (other than not being able to use the auto-email scan with Pegasus.  The updates are prompt, fast/easy to install,  and have in the past detected virus that Norton and others did not. The other utilities included in Fix-it are also superb and have saved me many times from giving up on my o/s, formatting, and reinstalling.

[quote user="bbroeckert"]

I have 7 Novell Netware 6.5 file servers that are running Pegasus 4.21c, and I have a problem with one site when sending file attachments.  A user uses a distribution list to send announcements to roughly 100 users.  Today for example, the user sent 2 very small attachments, one Word and one Excel file.  Almost all users had no problem opening either file, however I had one user that could open the Excel file but got the following error message when attempting to open the Word document.  The document name or path is not valid.  Try these suggestions.  * Check the file permissions for the document or drive.  * use the File Open dialog box to locate the document.  (C:\Document~\Bev\...\Temp\WPM$2B27.doc.

The puzzling thing is if the secretary resends the file, the user can open it without any problem.  Another part of the puzzle is, it's not always the same user that can't open the file.  It is not consistant. 

We use our own pop e-mail server, so it's not a problem between ISP's. 

Any suggestion would be much appreciated.    

[/quote]

The first thing I would do is try using a session log since it looks like what is happing is that there is some sort of POP3 TCP/IP download failure at the very end of the message (maybe packet fragmentation).   I would also look at upgrading to v4.41 to see if this helps. 

> This is a great list.  Thank you.  Is there any chance that
> an importer would be built in to future versions of Pegasus?
> The implementation of such a tool would be invaluable for
> people wanting to switch over to PMail.

Think about it a bit more.  Do you want WinPMail carrying around all of that conversion code just for a one time process?  How much of David's time would be spent changing this code to keep up with all the other mailers? 

You got me then. David Harris says in that thread that HTML-induced crashes are much rarer now, anyway.

I went to the DAWN site - the latest download there doesn't mention Windows 7 - let alone 64 bit setups.  So - back to my basic question: I have a large set of "contacts" in my Yahoo.com account that I wish to import into Pegasus V 4.52. Will DAWN really work for me?

Why not?  Win7 and 64 bit have nothing to do with this. 

Consider the reply option selected for how long line from the original message are to be handled.  If Reformat or Wrap are selected the result will then be manipulated to conform to the message width setting you have configured for message formatting.  That width probably won't match the original message which can result in odd line wrapping or line breaks.  Sometimes the solution is a simple as cancelling that reply and trying it again using a different setting for the long line handling.  Sometimes manual manipulation is the only option.

That doesn't answer your question about why it's not automatically handled.  Perhaps its not possible considering the varied formatting that messages arrive in and the user options provide users with the means of automating the process as much as possible.