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.    

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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.

First of all I wouild create a session log of the whole transaction.  Go to MercurE configuration and fill in the directory and check the session log box. (Don't forget to turn it off later as they can get quite large.

 With the complete detail, you will be able to see what's happening with these connections.

Hello!

Is the option "Use system-defined colours in Pegasus Mail's controls" of any help? You find it at "Tools" | "Options" | "General setting" | "Basic settings".
She may try it and see whether checking or unchecking it matters.

jss1941/Angus:

You gentlemen are working with a local copy of pmail, with local mail folders and a local inbox.
The standby issue will never bite you because your files are *local*, they are always "there."

Oh, regarding the help thing;

"Help" files on Microsoft windows are (de-facto, for me at least) more harm than good because I can't read the stuff because of their choice of fonts and sizes.

[A] The fonts are too small (even with the "large" option) and the choice of fonts is approximately impossible for me to read. The leters merge together on the screen. It's an eyesight thing.

I have tried using a magnifying glass, which isolates words and letters to start with, and then I find myself trying to deduce which pixels go with which letters. After all that, I try to form a word; it's a lot like Captain Midnight's secret decoder rings.

Anyway, thanks a lot for your help. I can now read my messages on my screen. Pegasus looks like a very good E-mail client.

[quote user="Han v.d. Bogaerde"]

Ok, step two might be a problem in either state.pmj or hierarch.pm:

Try the following procedure.  This works to restore the functionality of the  message folders or to recover from a system crash: 

1.  Use Help | About Pegasus Mail | Info to determine your mail
    directory.  Exit Pegasus mail. 

2.  Rename the file HIERARCH.PM in your HOME mail directory to
    HIERARCH.SAV. 

3.  Run WinPMail.  Your HIERARCH.PM will be re-created and
    should start working correctly. 

Be advised that this may delete any tree structure you have created and may have to be recreated. 

If it still doesn't open, do the above for state.pmj as well.

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 Hi there.

I have been having this problem with a handful of users over the past few weeks and just wanted to let you know that the above solution resolved the issue for me.

 Thanks,

Dan.

I guess I found out: regardless of the setting in the options it seems that WHEN you search, the marking of "Delete search results on exit" in the search window is critical. Without marking this the individuel search result still remain after PM exit.  Otherwise not.