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@winehq.org ReportedBy: dank@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.