Has anyone been successful in changing to the new POP3/SMTP settings using Pegasus Mail?
Works more-or-less fine using old settings, but those will be disabled shortly...
@pragerr wrote:Has anyone been successful in changing to the new POP3/SMTP settings using Pegasus Mail?
Works more-or-less fine using old settings, but those will be disabled shortly...
I'm not familiar with that client. Could you post a screenshot of the settings screen(s)? That would help with figuring out what needs to be changed.
Having trouble with Pegasus too (version 4.63). It will receive with the new settings, but will not transmit. I get "a network error occurred during connection to the host" message.
Same problem in Outlook Express 6. Tried the troubleshooter (manually), thinking I could translate the settings to Pegasus. Yes, but no. Created a new mail account in Outlook, which does work both ways. As for Pegasus, the servers are the same, the ports are the same, and "direct SSL connect" is checked on both the sending and receiving security tabs. All to no avail.
Sign me thoroughly confused!
Now receives, but I can't get it to send. (I had to monkey around with SSL settings, and eventually had to "Disable certificate validation" to get it that far...
This is on a sub-account (main account is accessed only on the web)...
I downloaded Pegasus Mail to play around with it. I'm having some trouble getting it to connect, too. I'll see what I come up with.
Alright, I'm offically stumped. I know what the settings are supposed to be, and they work in every other POP3 client I've installed on my PC. (Which is quite a few, actually, since I tend to install the free ones to get screenshots of the settings.)
The same settings do not connect in Pegasus Mail:
"A network error occurred during connection to the host."
I've poked it every way I can think of, but it still fails immediately with that error message. It doesn't even try to connect. Very strange.
Maybe someone else will come along that is more familiar with Pegasus Mail... I'm sorry I can't help on this one.
Thanks -- I don't feel so bad now! 
I thought I was pretty good at following directions, and it was driving me nuts.
post portions of your ini file. I believe its mercury.ini. It's not recommended to change by hand but if you can't find the spots in the menus, you can. Remove any personal info from the file before posting.
Things to check are ports servers name ssl active, authentication required, and port numbers.
Spent an hour or so on this. Looking at wpm files after attempts to connect to SMTP looks like it is having problems handle the SSL handshake. In fact this looks like an error that hit lots of clients and sites a couple years ago. In that the code is receiving the ssl keys in two or more packets and doesn't realize it and doesn't put the values together. I think its an erro in the Pegasus code. Not sure if the Pegasus support (mostly just the author) would be willing to assist. Surprised to see this only happening on SMTP and not also on POP.
Here is my PMAIL.INI FIle (not Mercury). The POP3 and SMTP settings with the 0's at the end are the "new" settings. Those with the 1's at the end are the non SSL variety.
[General]
Personal name =
Home mailbox location =
Folder for copies to self = Copies to self
Commenting string = "> "
Default reply-to address =
MHS mailbox name =
MHS Application directory =
MHS address =
Scan MHS application directory = Y
Copy to self = Y
Edit mail before forwarding = N
Save deleted messages until exit = Y
Leave read mail in newmail folder = Y
Request confirmation of reading = N
[Pegasus Mail for Windows]
Default right margin = 70
Folder sort order = 0
Temporary files directory =
Activity flags = 768
Reply field settings = 010100000
Startup directory =
Open new mail folder at startup = Y
Prompt to select copy to self folder = N
Address book sort order = 0
Require password at startup = N
Use MIME features = Y
Default MIME character set = ISO-8859-1
Encrypt copies-to-self of encrypted mail = N
Don't confirm message deletion = N
Enclose attachments instead of separating = Y
Noticeboard sort order = 0
Lines to scan for message enclosures = 20
Button panel mode = 2
Button panel is closed = N
Button panel window rectangle = 0 0 0 0
New mail folder window rectangle = 0 0 0 0
Default signature for outgoing mail = 0
Request confirmation of delivery = N
Application window frame is maximized = Y
Application window rectangle = -4 -4 1032 608
Editor window default width and depth = 595 411
Reader window default width and depth = 0 0
Font to use in message reader = Arial, 10, 0
Font to use in message editor = Arial, 10, 0
Font to use in folder browser = Arial, 14, 0
Font to use for printing = -, 15, 0
Offer advanced reply options = Y
Top/bottom margin for printing = 20 1234336
Left/right margin for printing = 20 1234336
Local user list window rectangle = 176 174 323 298
Reformat hard line breaks in replies = 0
Printer device name = HP Deskjet F4100 series
Printer driver name =
Printer port =
Tab width in message editor (0-disable) = 4
Logged-in user list window rectangle = 22 22 278 285
Save desktop state between sessions = Y
Wrap long lines in message reader = 2
Built-in POP3 transport options word = 179
Don't autoload WINSOCK.DLL if found = N
Seconds between POP3 new mail checks = 300
Seconds between regular new mail checks = 60
Secondary organization name =
Timezone for internal transport = -0500
Refuse confirm-read requests (internal) = Y
Telltale window mode = 0
Telltale window control word = 6
Location of TLC of telltale window = 0 0
DList Manager window rectangle = 0 0 0 0
Noticeboard Manager window rectangle = 0 0 0 0
Header printing setting = 323
Extensions manager window rectangle = 0 0 0 0
WAV file for new mail sound alert =
Folder manager window rectangle = 0 0 0 0
Omit message headers when replying = Y
Use custom header when replying = Y
Custom header format string = On ~D at ~T, ~F wrote:
Font to use in folder manager window = MS Sans Serif, 13, 0
Quick folder definition =
Quick folder definition =
Quick folder definition =
Quick folder definition =
Quick folder definition =
Quick folder definition =
Quick folder operating flags = 0
MHS directory service window rectangle = 0 0 0 0
Use system colours = Y
Display hot URLs in reader = 3
Web browser commandline =
Message reader format options = 4610
Message editor format options = 99360
Message editor autosave interval = 1
Default settings values = 00000028000040001000000000000000
New mail folder column widths = 0 0
Combined multipart reader rectangle = 0 0 0 0
General system flags = 0
Default mail folder name = Main folder
Last run version = 1123 1 1 0
Commandline for dialling =
Commandline for hanging up =
Dialling flags = 0
System message reporting level = 15
Message reader wrapping margin = 0
Styled message editor margin (mm) = 145
Styled message editor tab width (mm) = 12
Automatic formatting settings = 17
Reader hyperlink display limit = 30
Margin for Ctrl-J operations = 74
Preferred layout for normal messages = 0
Integer preference block 1 = 12319 1200 17 4 11 0 0 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Colours = 32768 32768 128 0 0 16777215 16777215 14024661 14875646 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Custom colours = 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Printing banner = ~P
POP3 Definition = POPIUQ4N.PND, 1
POP3 Definition = POPM3L3X.PND, 0
SMTP Definition = SMT7CJIJ.PND, 1
SMTP Definition = SMT6RPLK.PND, 0
Internet E-mail Address =
Default TCP/IP timeout value = 30
Favourite directory =
Personal Name (UTF-8 version) =
Whitelist max count = 500
Whitelist flags = 3
[Pegasus Mail for Windows - Run Info]
Program version = Version 4.63 (Win32), Dec 22 2011
Language resources = Standard UK English resource set
Time and date run ended = Sun, 28 Jul 2013 22:48:22
Running in standalone mode? = Y
Internal username = Single-user mode
Working home mailbox location = C:\PMAIL\MAIL
New mailbox location = C:\PMAIL\MAIL
LAN-based SMTP gateway status = Disabled, not preferred, not 'use always'.
MHS status = Disabled, not preferred, not 'use always'.
MHS directory path = /
MHS operating mode = SMF-70
[Pegasus Mail for Windows - Identities]
Thanks for replying. The SMTP*.pnd and POP*.pnd have more of the info if we wanted to just check your settings, however its LOOKING LIKE a Pegasus error. I Installed the latest and tested the other day and after turning on full diagnostic options the log file shows its not liking the negotiated key. As I mentioned in my earlier reply this reminds me of an error caused when to fix security problems with SSL they tended to send the key in multiple packets. Older code (e.g. the code used in Microsott Visual C++) didn't handle this right and needed to be updated with a patch.
I couldn't find anyone reporting this on Pegasus Forums, but someone who uses this regularly needs to try a get help from Pegasus support. I know they are a relatively small operation, and don't know how much they will help for free.
Working on that. Emailed someone on a Pegasus forum asking for tech support. No reply as yet.
My email to Pegasus "support" has gone undelivered. Help appears unlikely. Such being the case, what is a good email client to use with Windows 7? I absolutely do not want to use any type of web based email - Thank you Microsoft and Verizon.
I am currently using Thunderbird as my primary mail client on Windows 7. Up until I had been using (and still have installed) Windows Live Mail
@tns_2 wrote:I am currently using Thunderbird as my primary mail client on Windows 7. Up until I had been using (and still have installed) Windows Live Mail
Like TNS_2, I have both Windows Live Mail and Thunderbird installed. After quite a bit of experimentation I decided that I much preferred Windows Live Mail. Both are free, I suggest you install both and see which you like. And if you don't like either, then you should be able to find on the Internet a number of additional email clients to try.
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Justin
FiOS TV, 25/25 Internet, and Digital Voice user
QIP7232, QIP7100-P2, IMG 1.9.4
Keller, TX 76248 (VHO 1)
Kudos to both of you. Installed Thunderbird (MoMail, I call it). Easy setup, working like a champ. Thanks again.
After some work figured it out for now--just keep the same settings--incoming is pop.verizon.net put in new aol password Port 995 Outgoing smtp.verizon.net port 465
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