[Bug 8773] New: Mercury Mail doesn't recognize admin user?

[Wine Bugs]

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8773

           Summary: Mercury Mail doesn't recognize admin user?
           Product: Wine
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
               URL: http://www.pmail.com/downloads_maine_t.htm
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: download
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-misc
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs(a)winehq.org
        ReportedBy: dank(a)kegel.com


In
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.pegasus-mail.ms-windows/msg/331fb7a...
a user says:

I'm an ex-windows user, and I switched to Linux (Debian) a couple of
weeks ago.  I've been using Pegasus Mail in windows for some years now,
and I decided to switch to Thunderbird in Linux for my e-mail client, and
to convert all my old Pegasus e-mail messages and folders over to
Thunderbird.  

Part of the reason for the switch is that windows will no longer boot
(there's a bit of a story to this too, but I'll skip this for now).  So I
decided to try copying all the old Pegasus files/folders into the new
hard drive, where I have linux installed.  Then I installed wine (kind of
a compatibility layer that allows linux users to run many windows
programs; reportedly, pegasus and mercury both work under wine).  Then I
installed Mercury (at the time, version 4.01).  So, everything is running
on one hard drive, in one computer, with IP address 192.168.0.2
(computer's name is Rohan).  Both Pegasus and Mercury are in their
respective default directories under the default wine directory ~/.wine/
drive_c.  This "drive_c" directory should just appear to be the root
directory C:\ to Pegasus and Mercury when running them with wine.  Each
of them appears to run normally, without any freezing or crashing or other
weird behavior.  I've also configured Thunderbird to try to access an
IMAP server running at 127.0.0.1 at port 143.

I thought I'd configured everything properly, but when I tried to login
to the Mercury IMAP server using Thunderbird, I just got a message saying
that my password has been rejected.  Since then, I've installed (not
updated) Mercury version 4.51, updated Pegasus to version 4.41 (using
wine), made several changes to the Thunderbird account that I'm trying to
use to login into the Mercury server, changed the IMAP server port number
to 144 (and did the same for the port number that Thunderbird is using for
the login), changed the IMAP server address in Thunderbird from 127.0.0.1
to Rohan.local and still no go.  Password keeps getting rejected.

In Mercury, after I try to log in from Thunderbird, the IMAP4 window
shows the following:

Password failure, user 'admin', from 192.168.0.2

One thing I was struck by is that Mercury seems to be behaving as if it
doesn't recognize any user "admin", and so will not accept any password
from someone trying to log in as "admin".  I went into Mercury's
configuration menu, selected "Local users", and there are no users listed
there.  I thought this was odd, since Mercury is supposed to use the file
PMAIL.USR from the C:\PMAIL\MAIL directory.  The contents of this file
are as follows:

; PMAIL.USR Pegasus Mail user database.
A;Admin;Mail Administrator

So I tried adding this user "admin" in Mercury, and it didn't take.  No
error message, or anything, but after filling in information for the user
admin, and then clicking on "Add", the list of users is still blank.  
Just doesn't seem to work, not sure why.

Another odd thing is that when installing Mercury (both for version 4.01
and 4.51) I'd specified the location of the Pegasus Mail installation.  
But when I went into Mercury's configuration menu, and clicked on
"Pegasus Mail", it shows a blank for "Directory for Pegasus Mail .EXE
file".  When I type in C:\PMAIL\MAIL, and then restart Mercury, this
entry is blank again.

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