Notes on Smtpop --------------- Smtpop is a "mail transport agent" for Pegasus Mail. Pegasus is a native Novell Netware application, and internally supports Netware's mail handling methods. To deal with Internet mail protocols (SMTP and POP) instead, Pegasus requires an external program called a "mail transport agent." The default Internet mail transport agent for Pegasus is Pmpop, but Pmpop does not work for some people because it is incompatible with their ISPs' POP or SMTP server software. Smtpop is an alternative for such people. You do not need to be connected to set it up. I recommend you use Pmpop if you can; it runs from inside Pegasus, which in my opinion is simpler and more intuitive. Hence, I will assume in the following that you have followed my instructions for installing Pegasus Mail and Pmpop and found that Pmpop doesn't work. Here are some things that might make you want to try Smtpop: (1) Email doesn't get deleted from your server, in spite of the fact that you are set up for that. You configured Pmpop to "Delete messages once downloaded", but you still keep getting the same messages over and over again. (2) When you select "Get new POP3 mail" from Pegasus' "check for New mail" menu, you only get one message, no matter how many there are. For example, you are on IRC with jpIRC and /STATUS HB tells you that there are 10 messages waiting for you, but when you try to get them in Pegasus, you only get one. (3) It takes a long time to get a bunch of small messages. You have 20 messages, none of which is more than a page or two, but it takes Pmpop 20 minutes to retrieve them, and you know that your modem is faster than *that*. (4) You can receive but not send mail. Some ISP's are reported to require that an SMTP upload be preceded by a POP download, so that the POP userid and password authenticates the SMTP as well. Unlike Pmpop, Smtpop does both at the same time, so it might solve that problem. Those might be symptoms that Pmpop is incompatible with the POP server software your ISP is running. Pmpop is fairly old, and some newer servers are trying to do fancy things that it doesn't support. Smtpop is reported to correct those problems. To install Smtpop, decompress it into your Pegasus Mail directory: E:\INTERNET\PMAIL331> pkunzip ..\smtpop12 Edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT file and add the following line: SET SMTPOP=E:\INTERNET\PMAIL331 (Change it to match the directory where you installed Pegasus.) Reboot to let the new AUTOEXEC.BAT take effect. Since you installed Pmpop already, you already have a valid WATTCP.CFG file, so you don't need to worry about that. You can use the same WATTCP.CFG for Smtpop. Complete the configuration by running Smtpop in "Maintenance mode": E:\INTERNET\PMAIL331> smtpop12 -m Now how you proceed depends on whether your SMTP and POP servers are the same machine, or whether they are different ones. If your SMTP and POP servers are the same machine, proceed as follows. For "Server", enter your POP server name as given to you (it is not necessarily the string to the right of the "@" in your email address). For "User ID", enter your POP userid. For "Password", enter your POP password. For "Action", say B to both send and retrieve mail. For "Delete Mail?", say Y. For "Drive", give the drive where you have Pegasus installed, in my example, E. For "Mail Dir.", give the full pathname, minus drive, of the directory where you installed Pegasus, in my example, "\INTERNET\PMAIL331". You can leave "Full Name" blank. Hit to make the buttons blink, then hit S to save. When it asks for a "Server" again, hit until the buttons blink again, then hit C to exit maintenance mode. If your SMTP and POP servers are different machines, proceed as follows. For "Server", enter your POP server name as given to you (it is not necessarily the string to the right of the "@" in your email address). For "User ID", enter your POP userid. For "Password", enter your POP password. For "Action", say R to receive mail. For "Delete Mail?", say Y. For "Drive", give the drive where you have Pegasus installed, in my example, E. For "Mail Dir.", give the full pathname, minus drive, of the directory where you installed Pegasus, in my example, "\INTERNET\PMAIL331". You can leave "Full Name" blank. Hit the to make the buttons blink, then hit S to save. It will ask for "Server" again. Hit until the buttons blink, then press O for other. You will be asked again for a "Server". This time, enter your SMTP server name (again, it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with your email address). For "User ID", give the part of your email address before the "@". "Password" you can leave blank. Set "Action" to S to send mail. Leave "Delete Mail" blank. For "Drive", give the drive where you installed Pegasus again. Set "Mail Dir." to your Pegasus Mail directory again. "Full Name" can be blank again. Hit the again, then hit S. When it asks you the fourth time for your "Server", just arrow down until the buttons blink again and hit C for cancel. Run Pegasus and compose some mail. Note: with Smtpop, you do *not* use the "Get new POP3 mail" or "Send all mail messages" menu items in Pegasus. Instead, you exit Pegasus, run Smtpop to transfer your mail, then run Pegasus again to read the new mail and compose replies. Use this command to transfer your mail: SMTPOP12 -a On my system, it goes by very fast.