Up! Sorry but I found the message above irrelevant to the problem I noticed.

At the moment I am on some lists the only one adding "Re:" before "

", which I correct manually in order to keep in coherence with mail server.

 Isn't there a way to make "Re:" float and adapt to the list's choice? Or simply adopt the "Re:" after "

"? 

Up! Sorry but I didn't fully understand the relevance of the message above to the problem I noticed.

At present clicking on the first "Mail filtering rules" would be enough for me, and then deciding the other actions on specific tabs of the new window, if needed. 

Up! Sorry but I found the message above irrelevant to the problem I noticed.

I still think it is useful to reduce the number of steps, and consequently add a New Folder button as early as possible. 

When trying to develop an "online democracy" in some non-profits, I found a major reluctance from people who would complain that their "mailbox was flooded". It soon appeared that they were unable to create filters by themselves.

 

Therefore, in such cases, it would have been useful to send them a "configuration file": I click on Export, I am presented with a choice of the filters to export, and for import the new user is also presented with a choice of the filters to import. 

 

For more advanced users, that would speed up config in the case for instance of an individual joining an organization with many thematic newsletters. 

I still still think that displaying the search results in the folders windows will be confusing for new users, and will worsen Pmail's reputation of clogged or clumsy interface.

 

It should be an option at most. Usually there is no need to see searches in the interface when there is no search. Unwanted info is noise.

Same here!  I thought I was the only one experiencing this weirdness! (running Win2k, SP4).

I suppose we should move this discussion to Support....but I could not resist responding, as I previously thought I was the only one with this problem!

Up! This one is from last year, but I think it's important since it's almost a bug.

[quote user="Brian Fluet"]

Once you have that new message filename (it will be in the format ????????.CNM), use a text editor like Notepad to open that file.  Look for the Date: header entry.  That is the information Pegasus Mail uses to display Date/Time. [/quote]

Got it! I didn't realize that the entire file needs to be opened and edited. I thought it could just be changed with a Change Attributes program when right-clicking on the file. I tested it and it works. If it's a large file with attachments though it would probably take quite some time to open by Notepad or Wordpad.

 "Note:  You can view the Date: header from within Pegasus Mail using the Raw view tab. No editing from there though." I noticed that and realized it cannot be edited from there.

Thank you for your assistance and for taking the time to explain it thoroughly.

Thank you for that information. I've printed that onto a card and posted it next to the computer.

Strat

Thank you, I didn't see that option.

when searching in one or more folders the result is found in a search result folder - isn´t that exactly the same function ?

For filter rules I miss the metacharacters like Mercury or must complex like

{n,m} min to max mach

^ string start

$ string end

best regards!

have a look at the pegasus help: chapter - Browsing mail - Public (System-wide) Folders

if you need more information - ask ! these folders are easy to use and rock solid, because each mail is it´s own file and the folder really IS a folder in the disks directory structure.

 

Funnily enough, I never thought of that, but it should be triivially easy to do, and I agree it would be useful.

When you see messages on the forums indicating that v5 is in fullscale development, please remind me about this

Cheers!

-- David --
 

Hi!

When pmail first asks for network config (directly after installation), it should not only ask for pop3, but also for imap. Otherwise users see pop3 only and can't easily find out that Pegasus Mail can do imap.

Each imap config should have an optional own smtp config, because it's often important to send email out from the correct account.

For privacy reasons there should be a config option to NOT store any imap mailbox contents in cache on local hard disk.

Also for privacy reasons when smtp authentication is activated but only userid stored, no password, the program should ask for the password, as it does when no imap password was entered. Instead it tries to authenticate with an empty password. The smtp password is often the same as the imap password. I don't want that to be stored on local hard disk.

Also I often get error messages when trying to open another imap folder from the same server later in a session, that only go away when I stop and restart pmail. Is this a known bug that will be fixed?

Klaus

Actually, thinking about this you already have similar functionality.

 

If you run Pegasus in multi-user mode you have to enter a password to access the program, so I guess that's the same.

my bad... doh [:D]

Hello! [quote user="Eliel Salles"]

The text color option for replies only work when I use this option with the quoted sign ">" checked. When I uncheck "Prefix text included from the original with ">" markers the text color is always the default (black).[/quote] Note that the different colours you see there is at your end; this is probably totally different from what is displayed at the receiving end.

Speaking of text-only messages, I can say that the difference in colours is more a visual hint than a real formatting; you should not think of it as a formatting style, but simply a visual clue.
The receiver will get a message that contains a quote, and each line of the quote is indicated by ">", whereas the maintext (=the text you have written) has no ">" before it. However, there is probably not much more that can be predicted: perhaps, the receiver uses a similar colour set that indicates a quote by a different colour...or he does not anything like that, so he will tell quoted and unquoted text simply by ">" (without any colour difference).

If I understand correctly, you want a solution that results in the same layout and display for both you (as the author of the message when writing the message) and the receiver (when reading your message). I am not really sure about that, but I think you have to write an HTML-reply then.

[quote] I usually reply to clients inquiries using a different color. The problem I am having is that for every message I reply I have to setup the color manually. The quoted sign ">" often messes up the message's format and I would prefer not having to use it. [/quote] Well, are you replying to HTNL-mails? If so, you may want to test whether the preserving option is helpful to you.
When replying, you will see a "Reply options"-window. One of the options is "For replies to HTML; preserve the original's formatting". This is what teh help file says about that option:

When this control is checked, Pegasus Mail will examine the message to which you are replying: if it is an HTML message containing graphics or formatting of any kind, it will insert it into the message preserving the formatting it contains. When doing this, it is no longer possible to prefix lines from the original with ">" markers, and that setting will be ignored. The original message will be inserted complete with all its formatting below a line [...]. This setting only applies to HTML messages containing formatting - it is ignored for non-HTML messages.

As the ">"-markers ignored (and not added at all), you may try and find out whether that option prevents your replies from getting messed (given that you are replying to an HTML-message).

[quote] I tried to modify the line Commenting string = "> " in the pmail.ini file but the program brings the default sign back.[/quote] As far as I know, the string is one of the options that depend on the identity. If that is true, you would have to edit the whole "pmail.ini"; at least, you would have to edit all commenting string settings you can find in "pmail.ini".

[quote user="RainerS"]

Yes, please!

Like in

On 26 Nov 2008 at 07:40 +0100, Sender wrote:

I came here to search the forums on how to accomplish this, and found the suggestion instead...

This shouldn't take much effort, and would be soo useful!

TIA :)

 Edit: At present, the closest you can get is through a reply template:

Title Custom Header
set To = "~r"
set Subject = "Re: ~s"
string fullsender "" "" 0 Address
string sendername "" "" 0
set variable fullsender = "~f"
extract text fullsender sendername
insert "On ~kDate~, ~vsendername~ wrote:~z"
insert "~z"
include message 0 quoted noheaders

which results in

On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:53:39 +0100, Sender wrote:

The date/time format is taken "as is" from the original message's header, but at least you don't need to manually look up the timezone in the raw message text.

[/quote]

As stated the template is only partial solution because the reply is addressed only to the name & address in the From field.  This bypasses the Custom Reply Menu where you can conveniently send the reply to names & addresses in any of the following fields, e.g. From, Reply to,  CC, To, Sender.

KQSR

There's already a thread running on this on one of the other boards:

 

http://community.pmail.com/forums/thread/510.aspx

 

Also, someone in that thread links to a statement on the matter on the Pegasus Mail website.

 

It sounds unlikely right now. FWIW, if you'll be using the GNOME desktop I find Evolution to be fine, and more stable than it used to be. It's not likely to be lacking features you might want--although it may have too many for some tastes, since it's a full-blown PIM. The standard KDE mailer is fine, too--although again they followed the PIM model, and it's a bit cumbersome. If a PIM is more than you want, I hear very good things about Claws Mail. There's a nice run-through of MUAs for Linux in this podcast:

 

http://www.linuxreality.com/podcast/episode-21-email-clients/ 

 

Some people have got Pegasus Mail to run under Wine, as you'll see from the thread I linked above. I haven't been particularly successful with that myself--I get frequent crashes, and for some reason Pegasus can't communicate with one of the mail servers I use when running under Wine. But you might like to give that a try.