Is there a way to create a button on the New Mail folder toolbar or on the main toolbar that could forward the selected email(s) to the system admin? Currently, I have my users forwarding the messages to admin but it would be nice to make is simpler for them.

Tony

The button panel in Pegasus Mail can be customized (see bpanel.txt in the Resource directory) but I don't know of a way to add a button that would automatically invoke a forward with specific options pre-configured.

Something that comes to mind is a public folder into which users could copy or move phishing messages. Potential drawbacks that come to mind are:

1. Requires a shared network directory as the location of the public folder.
2. Easiest when running a shared installation of Pegasus Mail otherwise the public tree must be configured in each installation.
3. Admin may need to manually monitor the public folder for new additions. It is unknown to me whether there is a product that would notify of files added to a directory.
4. The phishing messages would be visible to all users, although share and/or NTFS permissions could be utilized to hide the public folder directory from certain users. Seems that might hinder its purpose though.

Brian,

Thanks for the public folder suggestion. But, I wouldn't like that others could see the submitted messages.

I had looked at the bpanel.txt file, but didn't find anything about forwarding there.

I also had the thought of using "save message to disk" to save to a network share, but dismissed it for similar reasons.

For now, I guess I will keep teaching my users to keep bounce forwarding to the admin mailbox.

Regards,
Tony

I can't think of a toolbar button unless building an executable to be called using runexe.dll. BUT it could be done using Quick Actions (Folder > Quick actions > Define quick actions... > Define... > Apply a set of filtering rules to the message)

One must create a general rule like "Always trigger > Forward > Admin (local or remote address)" that will be used by the quick action. Quick actions can be called by Ctrl + 1 to 6 or via menu.

Euler, this it genius! In testing, I was very surprised that the forward happens without user intervention of any kind. I had never used a 'forward" rule so not only did I learn how it worked but also a little more about how a quick action could be used.

@euler, Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it in my mail box, and it works quite nicely. If I want to have it available for all users, it would need to be configured for each user? Or is there a way to add it system-wide?

Regards,

Tony

I don't know of a way to make a rule set global so my thinking is that you could give the general rule a specific filename and then copy that .PMC file to every users mailbox. Unfortunately, I have not been able to identify the file in which the configured quick actions are stored. Knowing that might allow you to add the appropriate entry to every users file without having to configure the quick action for each user. Hopefully someone else knows.

Edit #1: Found it! It's PMAIL.INI. The entries are "Quick folder definition". Odd that my initial search for "Quick" did not find anything.

Edit #2: I can't find a way to remove a quick action from with Pegasus Mail (eg: set it back to "Undefined" ).

"Quick folder definition                   = 10F8BFC5:7634:FOL07C8E, 0, 0"

to

"Quick folder definition                   = "

Another thing to mention is the Quick action order. Which line is triggered by Ctrl+1 or picked as Quick action #1 in the menu? Well, the first Quick folder definition line found in the PMAIL.INI section of the working Identity. So, if one have plans to make Quick actions "universal", everyone must have the same set of Quick folder definition lines, in every section of PMAIL.INI, and in every PMAIL.INI file. BTW, I did not test any of this thoroughly but it is what makes sense to me. I'm open to questioning.

Going a bit further there's a way to put Quick actions buttons in the Pmail toolbar. Below is a snippet of what I use here regularly, except by the #2:

0,10311,0,1836,"Open/Move to Spam/Junk folder (Ctrl+1)"
0,10312,0,1836,"Forward message to Admin (Ctrl+2)"
0,10313,0,1836,"Open/Move to Pegasus Mail Private folder (Ctrl+3)"
0,10314,0,1836,"Open/Move to NotSpam folder (Ctrl+4)"
0,10315,0,1836,"Open/Move to -Avisos folder (Ctrl+5)"
0,10316,0,1836,"Open/Move to Transit folder (Ctrl+6)"

So, as long as properly set, every user can have a button to forward Admin any message at once. And I can't resist to say what I've heard from the Pmail Community since day one: "There is nothing comparable to Pegasus Mail." Period.

Thank you, David!