[quote user="Tom Barkas"]Trouble is I can only figure it out by trying it. I've no idea what a Unix Mailbox Format is or an MBOX and what email programmes use them and am only vaguely aware what IMAP is and don't have access to an external mail server as far as I know, but I expect I'll muddle through when the time comes!.[/quote]

See below for what Pegasus Mail's own help provides to answer your questions:

[quote user="cogx"]

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/540601

"v4.72 build 572
Vendor supposedly fixed: January 21, 2016

May 19, 2017 : Public Disclosure"

So,  that post says the flaw is still working in 4.72 build 572, but it was supposed to have been fixed in January 21, 2016 which should mean it was fixed in 4.72 build 572 (Feb 19, 2016)?

[/quote]

I think it's just a typo - the actual bug was fixed in January, in both Mercury and Pegasus Mail. I haven't as yet done a release because, frankly, this is a very minor security issue.

What the vulnerability entails is a common issue where an application allows Windows to search along the path for DLLs when loading them. In theory, this means that someone could place a DLL in a directory in the path earlier than the real version, and Windows would load the bogus one when the load call was made. In practice, this is really hardly an issue: Mercury is typically used as a service, so it's nearly impossible to inject a bogus DLL into the path before it starts up, and while it could possibly be exploited in Pegasus Mail, it's hard to see what benefit it would provide.

In both cases, the solution was easy (it's actually a problem in the TER editor I use, not in Pegasus Mail itself), and I'll have maintenance releases out shortly that address it.

Cheers!

-- David --

Thanks, I should have thought of that

Thanks for your response. I guess I should change my password for my comcast.net account?

the good news! I can send and receive email again. If I didn't have thousands of messages and hundreds of addresses in Pegasus, I would have switched to Gmail.

An internet session log should help identify the sending problem.

One thing to check right off the bat...

In the Security tab of you SMTP host configuration is a setting called "Only use SSLv3...".  It should be unticked unless you are in the very rare circumstance of needing to use an old implementation of SSL.

 

I have taken to going into the attachment dialogue and removing everything except the attachments I mean to send.

Rssmail 5.6.4 minor correction to code at: http://community.pmail.com/files/folders/pegadd/entry47753.aspx

[quote user="breezes"] 1) Why are the moved emails not deleted from the "copies to self" folder?   [/quote]

I don't have an explanation as to why you aren't seeing them deleted.  I would restart Pegasus Mail then test using both the Move button and drag and drop.  Both methods should work.

[quote user="breezes"] 2)  Why is Pegasus willing to make two copies of the email in John Doe's folder, same datestamp and content, rather tan saying "Look here dummy, you already have that email in this folder"?[/quote]

Messages stored in folders are not stored as individual files but appended to a single file.  Pegasus Mail does not check the content of the folder file for duplicate content when you add a message to it. 

 

Just some comments:

• Pegasus Mail runs fine from the root of C: under Win10.  I haven't encountered any need to change permissions.  FWIW, each PC user needs full control over their mailbox directory.
  
• The splash screen flash without Pegasus Mail opening is an indication that it can't find the mailbox directories.
• You can specify the username in the command line using the -I option (eg: C:\PMAIL\Programs\winpm-32.exe -A -ms -I AA)
• Migrating from machine to machine via copy/paste works fine as long as the paths are identical.  Best approach is to do the copy, run it once to create the registry that records the run-from location, then run the installer over top of it.  The installer creates the shortcuts (you'll need to tweak) and the registry entries needed for full functionality.
• If you are routinely bouncing between two PC's and don't need Pegasus Mail as the default mail program consider running it from a flash drive.  I do this with the Pegasus Mail install I use for following the support list and the activity on this community forum.  It goes with me to work and when I travel. 

See update to Rssmail 5.6.3 at http://community.pmail.com/files/folders/pegadd/entry47745.aspx

Martin

There are different types of backup programs and each have different capabilities.

Professional backup software (enterprise class) includes agents. An agent performs a specific task. For example, we use ARCServe and that includes an 'open files' agent which allows open files to be backed up. Ordinarily, if a file is open it is being used by a process, that file will be locked and the backup software will report a failure in its log. An agent can take the file as it exists and back it up without interfering with the process.

Acronis is disc imaging software. This is one of the best types of backup to create because you can literally start up the computer, access the BIOS and tell it to boot from the disc that Acronis created the image on. I used to use Acronis, and you had no choice but to reboot to use it because it kicked in and created the image before Windows loaded.

At the end of the day you should not be using your computer when you are creating a traditional backup onto external or internal media. You have no guarantee that the backup will contain a complete copy of your data if you have files in use. 

You could opt for online backup. I have recently gone down this route with my personal PC. The yearly cost is low, the process is automated, and the backup procedure grabs files when they are not being used. 

Bearhtml 4.9.9.1   http://community.pmail.com/files/folders/pegadd/entry47719.aspx 

RssMail 5.6.1       http://community.pmail.com/files/folders/pegadd/entry47720.aspx 

Since my folders already group messages by subject or origin/sender, most of my folder searches are 'blind'.

Greenman, it appears that your suggestion about posting to the PM Suggestions forum, is the next best step that might result in a solution.

Thanks. I had forgotten about autofiltering, and playing with file options I found it, and disabled it. 

If you only have 21 mail folders, why not manually delete them?

Or

Right-click the mail folders you want to keep and make a note of the file name from Folder information. You only need the last 4 characters of the name before the extension.

Next, close Pegasus Mail and open and backup your mail folder, then sort it by name. All the FOL0**** .pmm and .pmi files will be listed. These are the 'folders' you see in Pegasus Mail. Delete the pmm and pmi pairs that do not share the same names you made a note of earlier. Start Pegasus Mail and see if the duplicate folders have been removed from the folder list.

Thanks, Martin, for your help. I did have one of the addresses listed twice and one

was blank except for the  name. In trying to make sure everything worked properly, I made 3 addresses with my email, but different names. I then made a distribution list with those 3 names. It surprised me that only one email was received. Is that expected behavior? That is, that no matter how many addresses there are with different names, but the same email address, only one email will be sent?

Just to clarify discussion of the AND. It is coded as the Action on the first rule, and then the next rule in the ruleset is joined to this rule. Further when coding the rule with the AND action you can check the NOT checkbox to create a AND NOT conjunction.

Martin

Ok, I've managed it now - on the fourth attempt - phew!

For the benefit of anyone else with a similar problem, I uninstalled Pegasus (this did not touch my mailbox curiously - but I had backed it up 'just in case' - be warned!) and then removed any other Pmail folder I had lying around (!). Running the installation, I unticked the box to create a new mailbox on the first attempt. This did not give me the correct install where I could see my lists. My next attempt allowed the creation of a new box but moved the 'contents' to my directory. This did not work correctly either.  What DID eventually work was to untick 'create new mailbox' AND untick 'roam' below it.  Presumably Pegasus did not like looking on the E drive but gave up and created a new one on the C regardless?

I think this means that the documentation is slightly wrong in that it refers to only unchecking the roam box when the 'physical' drive is different?  My experience shows that a different partition on the same physical drive is also a 'different' thing.

Anyway, all working correctly now with all my d-lists and sigs visible again.

 Cheers, Chris D

PS. Curiously, although the correct mail server definitions are there when I click 'add' the first visible definition was actually a redundant one!   hth

[quote user="idw"][quote user="Melissa2011B"]

It's not just these access violation problems, but the program keeps crashing at various times too.[/quote]

Are you using IMAP a lot? It's the last major issue to be solved by David Harris, but I haven't heard a lot about a new version being tested and released soon.
[/quote]

 

IMAP? What's that? ( guess that answers your question. )  :-)

Martin,

You say that the Pop receiving entries are "polled"?  Is that relevant. Do I have to add a new definition (host) in Internet Options to make Pegasus work, to enable Pegasus to receive my emails which are stored at Bell? I have one host and it is Bell. 

The second part of what Brian was saying was about the outgoing mail but I see that there I cannot make a new host name at all.