Pegasus Mail

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Pegasus Mail is the designation for one, by the New Zealander David Harris since 1989 developed, free e- mail program.

Functions

User interface

Pegasus Mail has a choice of English or German -language graphical user interface. For the current version 4.x there are language packs for French and Italian. Language packs for Dutch, Czech and Catalan are available for the v3.12 is available.

Since version 4 Pegasus Mail offers as an alternative to the traditional multiple-document interface (MDI ), the known Outlook Express and Netscape Communicator Three windows view with mail preview.

E -mails can be sorted by drag & drop folder, otherwise the program can be operated with the mouse. For almost all functions keyboard shortcuts exist to operate the program using the keyboard. Also Pegasus Mail has many command-line functions.

The messages in a folder, as in other mail programs usual, by date, subject, theme, size, color or sender will be sorted. In addition, the messages after days, weeks, months or threads can be grouped. A display in a tree structure ( threading ) as Mutt is not present for Pegasus Mail, however.

Protocols

Is Does the E -mail delivery for Novell's MHS or SMTP. Authentication is possible via SMTP - after- POP, and SMTP Auth.

There may be multiple POP3 and IMAP accounts are queried. The Selective mail download even when only a preview of the POP3 mailbox, and offers a choice which messages you want to download. Automatically filter is possible without the e -mails full download. It is possible, via POP3 retrieved e -mails do not delete after picking up, but to leave on the server. News of an IMAP folder Pegasus Mail can save locally in a cache. It has such a faster access to the messages and can work offline.

The TLS variants of these protocols are supported.

It also supports the LDAP protocol and PH.

For MAPI and RSS there a plug-in.

Filter functions

In Pegasus Mail filter the possibility of e- mails was introduced in 1991. Can be filtered out automatically when you open or close a folder or on triggering by the user. Download filtering directly on the server, without the whole e -mail, is possible. Applies a filter condition to, actions such as moving, coloring, an external program, redirecting or forwarding the e- mails start to run. The individual filter criteria can be logically linked. Pegasus Mail supports regular expressions whose syntax, however, regular expressions differs significantly from the specified in the POSIX standard Basic and Extended in the rule set for filters. About Anchor links can filter rule sets contain minimalist program logic.

Pegasus Mail also has an evaluation based filter option, called the content control. To combat spam already a predefined rule set is given for the content control at Pegasus. There is a self-learning or trainable Bayesian filters since version 4.41.

MIME

Pegasus Mail supports Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions ( MIME). Thanks to the GNU libiconv library Pegasus Mail can handle numerous international character sets and encodings, including all ISO 8859 character sets, KOI8 -R, KOI8 -U, UTF -8 and UTF- seventh

With Pegasus Mail messages to be encrypted and digitally sign. For the Support of Pretty Good Privacy ( PGP) and GNU Privacy Guard ( GPG) free plugins exist.

HTML e -mails can be both created and shown. The presentation is done by either using the rendering engine of Internet Explorer or alternatively regardless of the Internet Explorer using its own rendering engine called Bear Html. It will run no active content. To protect the user's privacy from tracking pixels, images, style sheets or script files are loaded only on the user from the internet command. The addresses of trustworthy organizations to register in a whitelist, however, so that images in the newsletters of these organizations are automatically recharged.

For security reasons, Pegasus Mail prevents direct execution of attachments ( attachments) that are executable under Windows and therefore potentially dangerous. Attached images in the JPEG, GIF, BMP, WMF and EMF formats can be viewed directly in Pegasus Mail. External viewer for files can be in Pegasus Mail regardless of the settings of the operating system to set.

Mail folder

In the basic settings Pegasus Mail contains the following folders: In the New Mail folder new mails arrive after picking up, regardless of which POP account the mail comes. The junk mail folder and Suspicious sorted out emails that are detected by the content control. Using the Recycle Bin, a corresponding folder is created. It is also useful to set a default folder for read mails. Pegasus Mail allows you to create multiple mail folders and drawers that contain subfolders. Also, virtual folders are supported by Pegasus Mail.

Pegasus Mail has its own backend storage of e -mails: New e -mails are saved as a file with the extension CNM in the mail directory and appear in Pegasus Mail in the Inbox folder ( New Mail Folder). All other folders consist of two files: a file with the extension PMM contains all the mails in a folder in ASCII format. Individual emails are separated by the control characters Ctrl -Z. A same file with the PMI is the index file to the appropriate folder.

There is a rudimentary support for the mbox format folder. Since this folder format by many email programs - such as Thunderbird, Opera M2 - is used, it is suitable for import and export of e-mails.

Others

  • The roaming mode facilitates the operation of the mail program on a USB stick. Started with the command line option - ROAM, Pegasus Mail runs independently of the drive letter that is assigned to the media on which the program is installed.
  • Pegasus Mail provides operating system-independent multi-user support one. Each of these users in turn can create several different identities. Identities may differ in name, the specified e- mail address, or in many other settings.
  • Templates
  • Management of up to 10 different signatures, either in plain text or HTML format. When composing an e -mail can be exchanged between these signatures in the editor is open.
  • Phishing Protection
  • Distribution lists

Revision history

The freely available program was developed in 1989 for the exchange of messages within the Novell Netware network of New Zealand's University of Dunedin. 1990, it made ​​David Harris first available worldwide through an FTP server. In combination with the mail server program Mercury Pegasus Mail was very popular for a long time in university and corporate networks. The program, however, can also operate in single user mode.

Pegasus Mail, there were originally only available in English. In 1993, the first version was released for the Microsoft Windows operating system. With the release of the Windows version of Pegasus Mail was then translated by users in other languages ​​, including German.

The development of version for the Apple Macintosh in 1997 reinstated. Also, the program version for Microsoft Windows 3.x ( 16 -bit) is now no longer being developed.

In contrast, because of its low resource requirements which can be used even on very inefficient computers DOS version has been further maintained with updates at longer intervals, even if that care is essentially limited to the elimination of the errors found. Pegasus Mail for MS- DOS is currently available in the version 3.50 and is compatible with any version of MS- DOS or PC-DOS version 5.0.

In shared on December 14, 2005 Release 4:31 for the 32 -bit operating systems Microsoft Windows 9x/ME/NT 4.0/2000 was a completely new HTML rendering engine ( " Bear Html " ) as well as support for UTF -8 character sets, protections against phishing attacks, and more. implemented. (The complete list of code changes compared to the previous version includes more than 1500 entries. )

In June 2006, Pegasus Mail appeared to 4:41 in four languages. The most important innovations were the Baysche filter named Spam holder and a global whitelist for all filters included in Pegasus Mail. Windows 95 is no longer supported by this version.

Since June 2009, there are 4.51. The changes from the previous versions is primarily to modernize the program base in such a way that the program code was instead with the Borland compiler for the first time with Visual C translated. As part of this change hundreds of small bugs were eliminated. Furthermore, additional features were introduced, such as an automatic filter function for folders or the optional block set for writing messages.

In the published in February 2011 Version 4.61, the appearance of the symbols has been completely redesigned. You can now choose between a based on the Internet Explorer HTML display and the previous Bear Html. In addition, can be set, at what size are denied their own attachments.

The published in July 2011 Version 4.62 offers mainly an improved HTML rendering, numerous bugs were fixed in the published in January 2012 Version 4.63.

Since its release in March 2014 Version 4.70 OpenSSL is used for encryption, also Hunspell is used for spell check dictionaries in multiple languages ​​and further improvements have been made.

For version 5, a complete revision of the address book and a new mail folder format are planned.

Financing

David Harris announced in 1993 his secure job at the University of Otago in Dunedin and earns his livelihood since exclusively with the development of its programs. The development was financed primarily through the sale of manuals and support contracts as well as memorabilia and donations.

Since 2007, he has changed his business model on donations income for Pegasus Mail and commercial licenses ( only for commercial use, for non-commercial use the author asks for donations ) for Mercury.

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