I like his comments on http://www.pmail.com/devnews.htm:

"I'll resist the urge to let loose, though, and simply say that (1) "Less-secure applications" is crude scare-mongering by Google that means little and is mainly intended to serve their political agenda, and that (2) OAUTH2 is among the most poorly-standardized and ill-considered hacks I've ever encountered in thirty years of serving the Internet."

I would like to read his full rant about OAUTH2 for email authentication!

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.

Oh, pmail <3

My personal anecdote: In 1994, I was a junior PC/Novell sysadmin in the Israeli Airforce headquarters in Tel-Aviv (as part of my mandatory military service). Generally speaking, security was kind of a big deal, but somehow there was a copy of pmail running around, and it became the de-facto standard internal email communication tool across the entire airforce headquarters (and probably beyond?). I remember later even plugging it via SMTP into one of the mainframe systems, so we could send and receive messages from pmail to the mainframe.

I doubt the author got paid for all those copies, but he definitely deserved to be paid generously for it. pmail was simple and just worked. I don't remember the specifics, but I remember the joy of using it even now.

Wow, here's a name I didn't expect to ever see again (and neither did I realize that they have such a long history)

I never used Pegasus much but many moons ago worked at a place that used Mercury MTS as a mail server. It worked wonderfully, and of all the software that particular server ran, Mercury was the least fussy and fairly easy (for sysadmin me, anyway) to set up. (Though IIRC leave the server window open, I think it was easy to accidentally kill it by closing the window. Surely that's fixed now)

Nice to see that they're still being updated, and that the author is still around, cares about, and is supported by his work. Seeing stuff like this gives me hope for the future as jobs become seemingly more and more bureaucratic and proprietary cloud stacks swallow up many of the things that I enjoyed

I have a product that has lasted for a little over a decade. I use it daily. Others use it daily. But I have had to keep up with the times.

A website from 12 years ago does NOT look the same as today's websites. There are navigation conventions/expectations for downloadable products. For example, screenshots? It would be good to update the website to follow modern conventions. For example, compare Microsoft from a decade ago to today: https://web.archive.org/web/20080101150414/http://www.micros... https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows/

Unless it is purely a volunteer effort that is.

I still use it today on my main Win 10 machine. I used it first when netscape communicator announced end of live. Anyway - must be over 20 years now. Why not? Never change a running system - I guess...

One has to tip his hat to a developer that keeps his project alive for three decades.

Wow. I used it on Win 3.1 on an old 486sx25. It was both powerful and lightweight. I loved it.

Until I switched to google for my email, Pegasus Mail was my go-to client. Amazing to see it still kicking after all these years, and still updating! Kudos to him for keeping up with it!

I setup Pegasus Mail at a company in 1994, had no idea it was still around. Amazing dedication to keep it going all this time. NetWare came and went pretty quickly.

This certainly brings back some nostalgia. The university group I worked with back in my college days in the mid 90's used Pegasus mail. Reminds me of simpler days of school work and a summer spent upgrading Netware from 3.x to 4.x and moving from Charon to Mercury Mail. Not seen those since I graduated, but glad to see the developer still has active development and support for those programs.

Pegasus Mail is still alive? I worked for a small nuclear energy consultancy that used it circa 1998 on Windows 3.1 and 95 on a Novell Network.

I had a couple of my larger clients in the 90's running Pegasus into the early/mid 2000's, especially since it worked so well with Netware. Seldom gave me any problems even if the UI grew to be a little dated. I'd learned all kinds of management tricks around the databases, most of which I have forgotten now but I'm so glad this project still exists.

Thirty years of history should mean lots of screenshots over the years, but the author hasn't supplied any. Anyone can help?

Anyone still running it? I'd love to see the current screenshots. Unfortunately I couldn't find them on the page.

Oh, my first email program! On DOS (in a Win95 sub-system) connected to some Groupwise shit. Memories.

Is Mercury Mail a reliable SMTP server for your personal domain with a few emails defined.

oh wow.. I was a pmail user back when i was a Windows user :)

i wonder if there's a linux port!!!

Anyone using this on Windows 10 in a corp environment?