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My company in 1996-99 used Pegasus mail extensively to manage emails besides mutt, Eudora mail. Also provided mercury mail as a standalone small mail relay and

My company in 1996-99 used Pegasus mail extensively to manage emails besides mutt, Eudora mail. Also provided mercury mail as a standalone small mail relay and newsletters servers to some companies as it supported mailing list management by a file which was generated from a web app. Just in the subsequent jobs moved away from Pegasus as mutt and Thunderbird being open source were preferred by the team. Later with Fortune 500 moved to lotus notes and outlook with exchange and both were a horrible experience. Pmail is one of the best email client on windows, much better than outlook and lotus notes. Congratulations to the author to be able to keep this client and server alive and constantly updating it.

rhabarba 7y ago
Admittedly, the developer has slowed down a bit - Pegasus Mail 5 has been announced since 2006 - and I wonder how the next incarnation will look and feel. But it is calming to know that the world where web browsers are not the best option to read and write e-mail messages is not going to go away soon.
- dragonsh 7y ago
  Even though developer slowed down, he did not abandon the project and continue to develop it in spite of not making it open source. This requires tenacity and persistence, which is at display in this project. I moved away from this programs since MS Windows is not important for my company or my customers. My teams and I on personal level didn't touch any MS windows OS or machine for over 6 years now. No one in my team even wants to touch anything with Microsoft OS, they prefer either FreeBSD, Linux or Mac OSX (mostly used as unix with a good peripheral device support). In a rare case if some customer wants some support on windows the first thing to do is to install WSL with Ubuntu and then it becomes useable.
brazzledazzle 7y ago
Lotus notes seemed like some neat ideas that we're allowed to mutate and harm each other before being packaged up. I didn't use it much since it was a bit before my time but when it wasn't hosed it was weird and confusing.

rhabarba 7y ago

Admittedly, the developer has slowed down a bit - Pegasus Mail 5 has been announced since 2006 - and I wonder how the next incarnation will look and feel. But it is calming to know that the world where web browsers are not the best option to read and write e-mail messages is not going to go away soon.

dragonsh 7y ago
Even though developer slowed down, he did not abandon the project and continue to develop it in spite of not making it open source. This requires tenacity and persistence, which is at display in this project. I moved away from this programs since MS Windows is not important for my company or my customers. My teams and I on personal level didn't touch any MS windows OS or machine for over 6 years now. No one in my team even wants to touch anything with Microsoft OS, they prefer either FreeBSD, Linux or Mac OSX (mostly used as unix with a good peripheral device support). In a rare case if some customer wants some support on windows the first thing to do is to install WSL with Ubuntu and then it becomes useable.

brazzledazzle 7y ago

Lotus notes seemed like some neat ideas that we're allowed to mutate and harm each other before being packaged up. I didn't use it much since it was a bit before my time but when it wasn't hosed it was weird and confusing.