Default settings for WinPmail
Bill Kuntz
Greetings,
In the DOS version of Pmail, we were able to put the file
defaults.pm in the Pmail directory to set the default values for the
users Home Mailbox Location. Is there a similar feature in the
Windows version? I have looked through both the WGUIDE and the
online help and have not been able to find the answer. We need to
do this for 3500 student accounts, so a one-by-one approach is
obviously not desirable
Thanks for any help you can provide,
Bill
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Thomas R. Stephenson
The file is now called pmdflts.ini for both the DOS and Windows
versions.
Defining default settings for your users:
In previous versions of Pegasus Mail, a file called DEFAULTS.PM was
used to manage default settings for new users. DEFAULTS.PM offered
only a very limited range of customizations and wasn't generally very
satisfying.
Under Pegasus Mail v3.x for DOS and WinPMail, a new text-based
.INI format is used to store user preferences. The same file format
can be used to default almost any aspect of the program's operation,
using the following steps:
1: Login as a guinea-pig user. You might want to create a temporary
account for doing this.
2: Run Pegasus Mail for DOS and/or for Windows (they share the same
file) and set them up in exactly the way you would like them to
appear to your users. Things you will typically change are
preferences settings, and message settings (such as copy-to-self
and so on).
3: Quit, and change to the guinea-pig user's new mail folder in
SYS:MAIL/USERID. Locate the file called PMAIL.INI.
4: Copy PMAIL.INI to the same directory as PMAIL.EXE and
WINPMAIL.EXE under the name PMDFLTS.INI.
5: Edit the file using any text editor and remove the "Personal name"
setting. We also recommend that you remove the Window positioning
settings for the Windows version of Pegasus Mail, and any
references to local drives on your machine.
That's all there is to it! New users will now pick up all the
settings in this file the first time they run Pegasus Mail for DOS or
Windows.
Thomas R. Stephenson, CPL Phone: (408) 743-6608
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John Ritson
> In the DOS version of Pmail, we were able to put the file
> defaults.pm in the Pmail directory to set the default values for the
> users Home Mailbox Location. Is there a similar feature in the
> Windows version? I have looked through both the WGUIDE and the
> online help and have not been able to find the answer. We need to
> do this for 3500 student accounts, so a one-by-one approach is
> obviously not desirable
The Pegasus Mail Network Administrator's Guide (paper only)
says that a PMDFLTS.INI file now replaces DEFAULTS.PM
The best way too create this is to set up an ordinary user, modify
the deafults as desired and then save the resulting PMAIL.INI file to
the shared Pegasus directory as PMDFLTS.INI (taking care to edit out
user-specific details).
This also permits the use of command-substitution statements such as
Home mailbox location = F:\MAIL\~8
which would be invalid in a PMAIL.INI file.
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John Blickenstaff
How does one get a copy of the Pegasus Mail Network Administrator's
Guide?
On 17 Feb 97 at 8:16, John Ritson wrote:
> The Pegasus Mail Network Administrator's Guide (paper only)
> says that a PMDFLTS.INI file now replaces DEFAULTS.PM
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Comes as a part of the WinPMail manuals from David Harris. Check out
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Thomas R. Stephenson, CPL Phone: (408) 743-6608
Lockheed Martin Technical Operations Fax: (408) 743-0681
Technical Operations Engineering Services O/M2-21 B/158
P.O. Box 61687 Sunnyvale, CA 94088-1687
Net: thomas.s...@lmco.com
Member Pegasus Mail Support Team
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