Pegasus Mail

Pegasus Mail now supports mutiple signatures and HOT URLs. These are not mentioned in the review. In fact one of the supossed advantages of Eudora Pro over Pegasus is multiple signatures which Pegasus also has.

I read a review of several email packages in a magazine the other day (Think it was Byte). They reviewed lots of email clients, but failed to mention Pegasus Mail. I just can't understand why. Pegasus' load of features is large enough to put any email clients to shame and you just can't beat the price. I wonder how many other email clients supports MultiPOP like PMail does? I have a copy of PMail set up on a computer at work that fetches everybody's email and distributes them on our LAN...

Cool, I've been looking for something that supports multipop. Can you go into more detail on this?

Pegasus Mail's MultiPOP support is pretty new so you might find it a bit rough around the edges. The idea around the MultiPOP supports is for someone with multiple POP accounts. But you can easily get around that to manage multiple POP accounts of several Netware users. The problem being that the full name appearing in the FROM: field will be the one set up on the Pegasus Mail copy dealing with MultiPOP. It means that if you send something from your own PMail copy (with your full name in the FROM: field), that full name will be changed when the other copy of PMail (somewhere on the network) will pick your message from your outgoing queue to send it out. That's not a big problem, though. You just put your company name. :-) I asked that all users of PMail use their default directory for their mail to I know where to put newly arrived email and where to pick up the ones to be sent. I just tell PMail where that location is, reply-to address, POP/SMTP servers to use, etc, and that's it. MultiPOP is easy to use and set up. If you need any specific help, you can email to me.

While MultiPOP can correctly handle incoming POP3 mail for a whole network of users (i.e. Multiple POP), it cannot handle outgoing mail for a whole network without some custom tweaking by using a user-defined gateway (UDG) definition for WinPMail. This is necessary since you must have any outgoing SMTP messages converted immediately into SMTP final format before MultiPOP can do anything with it; what SMTP final format means is that file attachments have been encoded and attached to the message, encryptio has been activated, your signature has been added, the message headers have been specified (From: field, etc.), etc. To configure everything properly, do the following: Run PCONFIG.EXE and create a User-Defined Gateway definition for Pegasus Mail with the following settings: Gateway name : SMTP *New mail path : Is ^ a program to run? : N *New mail search mask : *Outgoing mail path : ~h *Run for outgoing mail : *Filename format : ~d~d.PMX Run to validate address : *Reply address format : "~p" Accepts SMTP addresses? : Y Simple message headers? : 'Glue' headers UUEncode attachments? : Y Burst messages? : N Gateway processes BCC? : N Strip gateway name? : Y Force all mail through? : N Also, make sure everyone has specified their Internet e-mail address within the Default Reply-to address field in their WinPMail General Settings preferences so that the UDG and MultiPOP will use their Internet e-mail address correctly for outgoing mail. Enjoy! David Kocmoud Pegasus Mail Tech Support Member

Sorry about the lousy wrapping job above--I cut and pasted that in and it didn't work out too well. Anyway, If anyone is interested, I wrote a book on Pegasus Mail for Windows that can be ordered from your local bookstore for about $34.95 + tax. The book shows you how to use Pegasus Mail's features to enhance your productivity. For more information and some sample chapter text, check out the following URL: http://www.browsebooks.com/Kocmoud/ You'll also find a Foreword section there written by David Harris, the author of Pegasus Mail. It may help explain why he gives away this wonderful software. Enjoy! David Kocmoud Pegasus Mail Tech Support Member

Thanks for that helpful information. I hope you'll be checking in here more often and that we can get the word out to other users of Pegasus Mail. All the folks I know who use Pegasus mail rave about it.

I've used Pegasus mail at home for a while. Though you can't beat the price and the feature list is extensive, a few rough edges remain. The spell check feature (new feature) is deficient in that the edit window does not scroll to display the context of the unrecognized word. Also, I guess the dictionary is not US English since "color" was not recognized. Another useability deficiency is word wrap, which works during initial text entry but not during subsequent editing. These deficiencies would not b overlooked by some, when deciding to change mail systems / clients.

I�ve have some problems installing pegasusmail. I�m tryiing to install the program in a novell netware environment for a student organisation. Everyone in the organisation will use the same netware login. When I start up pegasus it doesn�t requast any password so I get access to everyone�s mailacount. Is there a way to solve this problem. Or do I need some other mailprogram? The last time I tried to install it I didn't eaven get the chance to register sevrel users? Annyone that knows the answers to my problems? Would be very greatful for help in this matter. Henrik Ingvarsson Finansekonomerna, University of Stockholm, Sweden.

Do you use Novell's GroupWise on this system? What we do at MagRabbit is route everyone's mail from our BSDI UNIX Server to their smtp addresses in GroupWise and they get their email that way. We also leave a copy on the server so they can pick up their email with Netscape, Pegasus, Eudora or whatever other email program they are using. GroupWise allows you to send and receive Internet email. But perhaps you can tailor Pegasus to operate in this environment, I'd be interested in seeing if anyone comes up with an answer on this one. Good question!

i have installed Pegasus email and i am using it with netscape 2.old. i can't get rid of the email service that came with the provider. how do i make pegasus the main, the one and only email service on my pc? i want only one mailbox and i want that mailbox to be pegasus! help! Judy Mitchell

I have been waiting for Pegasus to update the print options. Can anyone tell me if they have yet? I understand there has been a new release. Up till now I've used Eudora Lite cause it allows me to print selected pages. What if a printjob fails on page 11 of 12??? Who wants to reprint the entire document? NOT ME!!! Or maybe only page 6 has the info you want to hang onto, why print 11 pages more than you have to?? If anyone knows if this feature has been fixed, please let me know. If not, please forward a request to David Harris! Heidi

Is there a way to import my address.htm (Netscape address book) into Pegasus?

One other item. My newmail.wav does not work. It was fine during setup and when I tested it.

I am trying to locate the Pegasus Mail zip file. It was not on ftp://risc.ua.edu/pub/network/pegasus/wpm32wb3.zip as indicated. Where else may i find it?

On Sept 12 artfest wrote: Is there a way to import my address.htm (Netscape address book) into Pegasus? I would like to to the same, as well as move old messages from Netscape to Pegasus. Can I do this? If so, how? Tnx!

On Sept 12 artfest wrote: Is there a way to import my address.htm (Netscape address book) into Pegasus? I would like to to the same, as well as move old messages from Netscape to Pegasus. Can I do this? If so, how? Tnx!

I guess I need to check this discussion list more often. ;-) PLEASE NOTE: if you have questions about Pegasus Mail, the place to ask is: winpmail-support@pmail.gen.nz Also, please subscribe to the PM-NEWS mailing list for announcements on new releases of the software. This is a low-volume list and a MUST for Pegasus Mail sites and users. To subscribe, send a message to LISTSERV@UA1VM.UA.EDU with a single text message line of: SUBSCRIBE PM-NEWS Firstname Lastname At this point, the latest versions of Pegasus Mail are: WinPMail/16 v2.42a, WinPMail/32 v2.42a, PMail/DOS v3.40, PMail/Mac v2.1.2 You can download the latest versions from: http://www.pegasus.usa.com/ Let's see if I can answer all the questions asked up to this point: 1) Why is Pegasus Mail not reviewed by the big rags? David Harris would actually prefer they NOT review Pegasus Mail since they usually have a hidden agenda or a different desired feature set than what David believes there should be. Often the reviews are misleading or biased, so he requests that Pegasus Mail not be reviewed. 2) Problem using Pegasus Mail for Windows in NetWare envrionment with multiple users logging in with same username? Pegasus Mail can run in one of two modes: NetWare or Standalone. While in NetWare mode, Pegasus Mail will use the NetWare username and the user's SYS:MAIL\userid mailbox directory (or a subdirectory under a user's home directory in NetWare 4.x NDS environments). Thus, if you've got hundreds of students logging into your file server as the same user, they will all look like the same user to Pegasus Mail. Thus, you'll probably need to use Pegasus Mail in standalone mode instead. In fact, I recommend th following: Purchase some zip drives for your common-access machines. Have each student purchase a zip disk (about $20 max), which can hold 100MB of data. Configure Pegasus Mail in single-user standalone mode to use the zip drive for mail storage (e.g. mailbox dir: E:\MAIL). You'll need to have a zip disk in the drive for this to work initially. Now, when a new student sticks a zip disk in the drive and starts Pegasus Mail, it will tell them that it could not find their mailbox and will prompt to create one. After creating it, the student can then set up all their POP3/SMTP parameters and basically customize it all they want. In this way, students can access mail from any computer with Pegasus Mail and a zip drive on it, assuming the student has a zip disk with them. Additionally, all mail is stored only on the zip disk, so security and privac are not big issues anymore. Although the zip drives are expensive up front ($150 - $200 per drive), they can be a real headache-remover. I recommend the SCSI INTERNAL ZIP drives. They cannot be stolen easily and are faster than the parallel version. You'll also need a SCSI card--I recommend a plain Adaptek 1500 series ISA card--doesn't have to be a screamer because of the zip drive's slower disk access speeds. 3) Want to use Pegasus instead of Eudora or Netscape (or MS IE) mail; how? With Windows 95, there is a helper utility available from John Navas to allow Netscape to call Pegasus Mail (or WinPMail, as it's affectionately referred to) for mail-related tasks: http://www.aimnet.com/~jnavas/winpmail/helpers.html For MS Internet Explorer, follow this link for a utility that will work: http://www.netaccess.on.ca/~medmonds/sw/runmail.html Note that this only works with Win95 and WinPMail/32 (not WinPMail/16). 4) How can I tell WinPMail to only print pages 5 through 10 of a large message? This is still a wish list item--stay tuned to the PM-NEWS list for updates that might finally have this feature. 5) How do I convert my address books from/to Pegasus Mail to/from Eudora/Netscape/Pine/Elm? There is a web site that includes a script to convert your address books for you. http://www.interguru.com/mailconv.htm 6) How do I convert my mail folders from Eudora to Pegasus Mail? Use the following conversion utility: http://risc.ua.edu/pub/network/pegasus/misc/conv01g.zip 7) New Mail wave sound notification not working, why? First go to the Advanced Settings preferences and click on the TEST button to be sure it's functionally configured. If it doesn't play, reselect your .WAV file (or choose one known to not be corrupted) and try the TEST button again. If it still doesn't work, most likely your sound drivers are messed up. If the TEST button does work, the problem is probably just with how Pegasus Mail operates normally. The only time WinPMail normally play the sound notification is when WinPMail is minimized or running in the background. If you want it to play even when not minimized, modify your WinPMail shortcut icon to include the "-Z 512" command line switch (hopefully, this option will be moved into the program itself in the next release or will be unnecessary). e.g. c:\pmail\winpmail.exe -z 512

Wow, I really do hope you check in more often. We've found the answer man.

Hm- Does this product work under NT 4.0, or just Win 95?

<<Does this product work under NT 4.0, or just Win 95?>> Yes, it works under Windows NT v4.0 and v3.5x.

Is there a utility that converts Microsoft Internet Mail folders to Pegagus Mail folders?

Do Pegasus mail folders use ascii text or are they a binary format?

Re: Pegasus 2.52 At the moment, Pegasus does not allow auto-decoding of UUencoded, BinHEX, or MIME binary files via mail filters.

"Is there a utility that converts Microsoft Internet Mail folders to Pegagus Mail folders?" I don't remeber there being a mail folder converter for converting from MS Internet Mail. However, you should be able to save each mail message from within MS Internet Mail as individual .CNM text files (e.g. 12345678.CNM) within your WinPMail mailbox and WinPMail will treat the messages as new mail messages. "Do Pegasus mail folders use ascii text or are they a binary format?" WinPMail uses two files per each mail folder: 1) .PMR: data file containing a 128-byte binary header followed by all the text messages in the folder, each separated from each other by a Ctrl-Z character. 2) .PM!: binary index file containing pertinent header info and status info of each mail message in the folder. "At the moment, Pegasus does not allow auto-decoding of UUencoded, BinHEX, or MIME binary files via mail filters." Correct. Due to the complexity and possible consequences involved here, it may not be wise to let rules be able to automatically extract attachments from mail messages. Additionally, there is no such thing as an "attachment" within MIME. Instead, MIME has "parts", each of which can contain differing pieces of information, some of which just may happen to be binary files, but not necessarily the case. For UUencoded or BinHex'd file attachments, you can get around this limitation by running a batch file to handle the decoding process via an external decoder utility.

What a comprehensive answer! Do you work for Pegasus?

I've used many mail programs. I work for an ISP, so I've supported a lot and used a lot. THIS IS BY FAR THE BEST ONE OUT THERE!! With pine, you have to use procmail to filter things. Pegasus has it built in. If you're a beginner, you might have a problem setting it up, but otherwise it's cake. AND IT'S FREE!!!!!!

I'd like to thank David J. Kocmoud for his postings. I have been bouncing back and forth between Pegasus and Eudora for almost 2 years, and for the last 6 months have been using Eudora Pro 3.0/3.01 at home almost exclusively. Because of this, I have quite a large number of mailfolders/addresss book entries developed in Eudora. I've finally settled on Pegasus at work, and now comes the task of trying to set up Pegasus at home...Thank you David for your information on converting my Eudora stuff to Pegasus. If all goes well, you will have saved me a LOT of work :)

I'd like to say that I use Pegasus 2.42a (win32)...and am very happy with it. I recently uploaded the newest version of Pegasus to the new office computer and was horrified that the "distribution list" doesn't work the same as mine does! whenever you send email to the distribution list, instead of saying "whatever" it says "whatever@hostname" this is a pain! I like my older version better! Why the change? Tom Reedy http://www.landslide.com

**What a comprehensive answer! Do you work for Pegasus? No, but I'm an official volunteer tech support member for Pegasus Mail. **I'd like to say that I use Pegasus 2.42a (win32)...and am very happy with it. **I recently uploaded the newest version of Pegasus to the new office computer **and was horrified that the "distribution list" doesn't work the same as mine **does! **whenever you send email to the distribution list, instead of saying **"whatever" it says "whatever@hostname" this is a pain! I like my older version **better! Why the change? **Tom Reedy I'm not sure exactly what you mean. If you are trying to suppress the recipient addresses, edit the list and type something into the "To: field" field within the list editor. This will cause whatever is typed here to appear in the To: field of outgoing messages rather than listing all of the recipient addresses. If you are talking about something else, please rephrase the problem and question. Be specific. Thanks.

I've been using PMail 2.53 32 bit for Win95 on several machines, with frequent malfunctions (lost index in folders, and reindexing causes loss of messages). The installation that crashes most frequently (almost daily) has a high incoming message volume, around 2000 messages per month, which are kept in multiple folders and trays. These messages are kept for a month or longer before being archived to a zip disk, employing unique folder names so that the archived folders can be moved back to the \mail direc ory and accessed as "new" folders if desired. At any given time, 2000-3000 messages may be in various folders in the active \mail directory on the hard disk. Does v2.54 fix this indexing problem? Is my volume of messages too high for Pmail to be reliably used, or do I have a problem with my setup?

**Bob V writes: **I've been using PMail 2.53 32 bit for Win95 on several machines, with frequent malfunctions (lost index in folders, and reindexing causes loss of messages). The installation that crashes most frequently (almost daily) has a high incoming message volume, around 2000 messages per month, which are kept in multiple folders and trays. These messages are kept for a month or longer before being archived to a zip disk, employing unique folder names so that the archived folders can be moved back to the \mail direcory and accessed as "new" folders if desired. At any given time, 2000-3000 messages may be in various folders in the active \mail directory on the hard disk. Does v2.54 fix this indexing problem? Is my volume of messages too high for Pmail to be reliably used, or do I have a problem with my setup? ** I think you have a problem with your machine. Does Scandisk report any lost clusters after a crash? Make sure to run scandisk anytime Win95 locks up. You may also want to look into using Mercury/32 instead of WinPMail as the mail-receiving machine. It serves as a better POP3/SMTP mail client/server than WinPMail. I also recommend upgrading to WinPMail v2.54, which is more stable than previous versions.

For those who are interested, I wrote a book on Pegasus Mail for Windows that was published back in May of 1996. While the book was written in the WinPMail v2.23 and v2.31 era, much of its hints and tips still apply in the lastest versions. There is also an HTML "Cyberbook" version of the book available. In the future, I *may* provide an update to the HTML version for a possible WinPMail v3.0 release in the future (I have very limited time for such projects now). I wrote this book with the help of a long-time friend and peer of mine, Matt Pierce, who also works for Texas A&M University, and a high-school English teacher from New York, who has the authorship experience and skills to see us through this huge project. Here is the URL for the book, which contains sample text from some of the chapters: http://www.browsebooks.com/Kocmoud/ Please direct any purchasing and other acquisition questions to the publisher, I'm only the author and have no control over pricing.

I have been trying to find a professional email app for ages (and I am still looking!). I have been a bit bemused by the reviews on Strouds (have they run the programs at all?? Sometimes I wonder). I have recently downloaded V3, and I cannot find any Multi-POP support. Any comments on this from anyone? It was in V2.55, but only through a plugin- whic which now no longer works, of course. I have also been a bit puzzled by frequent comments I see to being "easy to use, etc". I am an extremely experienced user, and I found it far from user friendly. The MDI interface is a real pain. How on earth do you read the mail if you have 20 folders? Popping up "Open mail" folders all over the place is just ludicrous. An autoviewer is a total must nowadays.

If there's a simple answer, I'll be very embarassed ... but I think there is and I need to know. Why can't I block out text in an email message by swiping the cursor across it (as in most mail and word processing programs)? Be nice ....

To respond to the last two comments: 1. MultiPOP is now part of the Identities feature... each identity can have a unique set of config data, which encompasses the entire Settings notebook. 2. The "swiping" behavior in pre-3.0 versions of Pegasus for Windows has been changed... dragging now highlights text in the usual manner. When downloading the updated version, make sure you get the file named w32-301.exe (assuming your platform is Win 95).

A couple of comments on the above: 1) MultiPOP is still there under Tools | Extensions | MultiPOP. It is still an extension (plug-in) and has been updated to work with v3.01. If you don't see it, the installation might not have worked properly. Check to make sure the MLTPOP32.FFF, MLTPOP32.DLL, and MLTPOP32.HLP files (assuming 32-bit version) are located in the WinPMail program directory. Reinstall WinPMail if they are not there. If you do see it there, it might still be the old version and you might have the files set to "read-only" o avoid overwriting. MultiPOP is still very useful for checking and downloading mail from multiple POP3 account *automatically*. I have mine set to autoload when WinPMail starts up and periodically check mail on my secondary accounts. 2) The Multiple Identities extension has been encorporated into the program as Identities. These settings allow you to set up multiple paradigms, each of which you can set most of WinPMail's settings separately (i.e. most of the Options dialog settings), and then quickly switch between the identities whenever you want. 3) MDI not easy to use?! I find it much better than those stupid pre-view panes in other mail clients. Such panes are a real pain (pun) when you want to quickly switch between multiple messages and such. With a large enough display, you can easily use WinPMail for its drag-and-drop features. Also, using the Prev/Next buttons helps to re-use message reader windows when going to the next or previous message in a mail folder. Plus, have a preview pane adds a lot of extra time to loading the folder. Loo ing at a couple of mail clients with this feature, it takes a while before anything even shows up in the preview pane. Oh yeah, and as a veteran user, I have no trouble switching between multiple folders and windows opened on the desktop. Try Ctrl-F6 or a larger resolution. Having said that, David Harris is considering adding a frames look as an option for those who are less-dextrous. 4) Blocking out e-mail??? I think you meant to say "How do I select a portion of a line of text in the message reader". This is a limitation of the old WinPMail v2.x message reader code. V3.01 now sports a new editor and reader. The reader now allows you to start and end a selection at any point within a line of text.

A couple of helpful hints for new WinPMail users: For information about Pegasus Mail updates, you should subscribe to the low-volume mailing list PM-NEWS. It contains announcements about updates to all versions of Pegasus Mail. To subscribe, send a message to LISTSERV@UA1VM.UA.EDU with the following in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE PM-NEWS Firstname Lastname The following support channels exist for WinPMail: mailto:winpmail-support@pmail.gen.nz news:comp.mail.pegasus-mail.ms-windows You can also subscribe to a high-volume Pegasus Mail discussion list. To subscribe, send a message to LISTSERV@UA1VM.UA.EDU with the following in the body of the message: SUBSCRIBE PM-WIN Firstname Lastname The Official Pegasus Mail and Mercury Home Page: http://www.pegasus.usa.com

To: David Kocmoud (DKocmoud [Said] Oh yeah, and as a veteran user, I have no trouble switching between multiple folders and windows opened on the desktop. Try Ctrl-F6 or a larger resolution. [EndSaid] I'm reading this older thread because I happened on it for the first time while getting ready to download the latest Pegasus 3 update. Found some enlightening answers here from you, even though I do peruse the newsgroup sometimes. Re getting around the multiple windows -- Once people know that Ctrl-Tab (the equivalent, it seems, of your Ctrl-F6 but easier to do with one hand) lets you alternate between windows within one application (as Alt-Tab does between applications), I've found they really appreciate it. I think that "kneighbor" probably had never used that feature. It's terrific to respond to an e-mail while being able to reference notes in old folders with Ctrl-Tab etc. The one thing I do wish for is better attachment-handling, still. But especially, with multiple identities, I'd like a way to view *in front* (lotsa space on right) while writing a note, which Identity you happened to be 'on' when starting the note or chose, instead of having to click on 'Special' tab or pressing F9 to make sure it was the one that's correct for the ISP mail servers you're using, now that Relay is such a no-no especially. Hoping you still pop in here. I liked that I could read old answers that were especially coherent, clarifying a couple of old questions I had. - Andrys