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Pegasus Mail
- oliyoung 10y agoWow, Pegasus is still a thing?
- ronilan 10y agoApperantly. But it's outdated. I moved to Eudora. Never looked back.
- kylebenzle 10y agoJuno offers a free address too!
- guiambros 10y agoLOL, indeed. I ran an ISP in the 94-99 era, and we used to distribute Pegasus for the first couple of years. But it was buggy and not very friendly, so we migrated to Eudora, and indeed users never looked back.
- soufron 10y agoYes but Eudora was quite heavy. 486 owners did not really have a choice, but Pegasus was quite cool on it. I have fond memories of it.
- hackuser 10y agoWhat about it is outdated?
- Avshalom 10y agoThe joke is that Eudora is also 'ancient'.
- bradknowles 10y agoNo joke. It is ancient. Not quite as old as I am, but not that far off.
- FireBeyond 10y agoYeah, I remember my university using it with Novell Netware 3 in 1995...
- dlehman 10y agoWow, that's a blast from the past...
- jasonjayr 10y agoThere's a developer news update for April 2017: http://www.pmail.com/devnews.htm http://www.pmail.com/devnews.htm
- bootload 10y agobest read, new product written while maintaining ability to read old message formats.
- Valodim 10y agoI really wasn't sure whether this post is an April fool's joke at first. Besides the WaP lightheartednes, the list of things he has already done sound like a huge amount of work. Assuming he just ricked me with the date, what a trooper! Kudos
- hackuser 10y agoThunderbird also seems to be facing a massive rewrite.[0] Are there any good FLOSS, local (with a local mail store, if desired), cross-platform, secure (with security protocols implemented) email clients that support standard features and have a reliable future? And any of those that I could give to non-technical end users? I know the names of a few, but I haven't tried them: Sylpheed, Claws, Evolution (cross-platform?), Kmail (cross-platform?), N1 by Nylon, MailPile (FLOSS?) ... [0] See this discussion, for example: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/tb-planning/2017-March/005298.html https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/tb-planning/2017-March/00...
- VSpike 10y agoA friend of mine swears by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH_Message_Handling_System
- cJ0th 10y agoUh ... Thanks for sharing the link as I didn't know that! Fortunately, they say they aim to be as close to the current TB as possible. So that gives me some hope. I worry that some highly individual use-cases will probably not work anymore in the future, though. For example, if they move the content of the RSS feeds into a database (They'll keep RSS feeds .. right?) my two-line bash script for automatically downloading videos from links contained in one feed wouldn't work anymore ;)
- ryanmarsh 10y agoCheck out the email etiquette page http://www.pmail.com/etqtte.htm http://www.pmail.com/etqtte.htm
- Waterluvian 10y ago"This will often help a postmaster recognize the real recipient of the message if the address is invalid." There were services where humans actually sometimes tried to manually route an email?
- sundvor 10y agoYou must be new here. postmaster@domain.tld used to be working mailboxes. :) EDIT: Ah, http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2821.html http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2821.html states it should still be so.
- Waterluvian 10y agoI had no idea. So cool.
- bradknowles 10y agoSee also the USENIX Short Topics in System Administration booklets, specifically "#15: Internet Postmaster: Duties and Responsibilities". Sigh.
- sundvor 10y agoCool - I just tested sending an email to postmaster@ my Fastmail domain, and they had indeed implemented a redirect to my username@. Smiles :)
- gweinberg 10y agoI used pegasus, back in the 20th century.
- arde 10y agoStill Windows-only. Too bad the author didn't take the opportunity of rewriting it into portable code.
- astrodust 10y agoNobody's happy until everything's an Electron app.
- giarc 10y agoIs this the same as PGMail? I remember using PGMail back in elementary school on what was probably Windows 1 or something. It was all blue and you would Ctrl-Enter to send a message.
- darbari 10y agoWe used to have it as PMail .. back in the mid 90s at uni .. used it for a bit, then shifted to Mutt, and finally to Thunderbird and stuck to it till now :(
- n4r9 10y ago> you would Ctrl-Enter to send a message Don't most email clients have that? That's how I send emails on Gmail and Outlook.
- unicornporn 10y agoHa!!! That header image has been there for a while, I can tell you https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20000510165803/http://www.pmail.com/ https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20000510165803/http://www.p.... If I recall things right this had a built in email list management. I had acquired a CSV of all the student and staff addresses. While I was goofing around with this I accidentally sent out a to a really strange email to everybody (but it kind of looked like it was addressed to them because everybody was in BCC). Next day at school was terrible.
- itomato 10y ago>The other major issue with Pegasus Mail is that it uses a proprietary third-party product as its core editor, and I would not be able to take that product with me into an Open Source environment. Portability issues aside, that's a questionable foundation.
- mseebach 10y agoYeah, it seems a bit short sighted that he didn't just grab one of the many free, open source, fully featured cross-platform text editors available in 1993.
- stuaxo 10y agoWe had pegasus in college at in about 1996 ... everyone went mad using it basically as an instant messenger clogging up all the computer rooms.
- blowski 10y agoWe used it as well. One of the kids in my year searched for "e" in the address book, and then sent a mass email saying "You have an 'e' in your name". He repeated that with all the vowels and some other letters, and then the server crashed.
- HenryBemis 10y agothis!! I remember how much I disliked using it in Uni!!
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- fisheye13 10y agoWorking at a technical university in germany right now. Our secretary is still using pegasus.
- i_feel_great 10y agoI distinctly remember David Harris at Auckland University, and I think this is the same guy who wrote PegasusMail. Nice, unassuming geeky dude. Surprised this is still working.
- shdon 10y agoHeh, I still use Pegasus as my primary email client. Not so much because I really like it (though I can't say that I dislike it, as I've gotten used to it in the past 21 years), but mostly because I haven't found any other email clients that are better. Pegasus Mail is quite slow with IMAP even on a LAN and has some weird issues, but its mail filtering ability is really flexible. I've tried Thunderbird, Sylpheed, Outlook, Outlook Express, even Windows Mail and Apple Mail, and every one of those annoys me no end. For me, Pegasus Mail is not necessarily the best, but still the route of least annoyance.
- dddw 10y agogive mailmate (osx) a spin, has nice filtering options
- shdon 10y agoThanks, I'll give it a try. I only use Mac OS at work, though, where my needs are a little different. In the documentation for MailMate, I don't see the kind of filtering that I use with Pegasus Mail. This is one of the things I miss most in all other clients: I prefer to collect the mails in my inbox, without filtering. When I close the inbox, Pegasus runs a large ruleset with hundreds of rules, moving all the read mail to archive folders and leaving the unread mail in the inbox. I've not yet seen any other client capable of doing this.
- narag 10y agoI had no idea it still exists. I stopped using it like more than 15 years ago after too many corporate server obstacles. I believed that it had been discontinued... or maybe it was Eudora?
- bshimmin 10y agoDo a view source on that page to get some lovely 90's era HTML nostalgia. (If you're wondering why the in-page menu behaves like that... it's because they're images, swapped out for their hover state with JavaScript, with the off state actually an animated GIF!)
- roemerb 10y agoNo CSS! Fantastic
- timkeller 10y agoPegasus was my introduction to email in the 90's. Glad it's still around.
- hyyypr 10y agoUnrelated but their website is remarkably well rendered in w3m. http://imgur.com/a/QOdMd http://imgur.com/a/QOdMd
- drannex 10y agoIf I had just seen that, I would have just assumed that was the site!