Pegasus Mail & Mercury

I use PMail since middle 90th at home - and I didn't want use anything else. But LOTS of bugs in 4.41 (especially with national alphabets) AND absense of new release made me angry.

A'm almost ready to change for Mozilla Thunderbird - I use it at work.

But I read blogs, I see message about 4.5 and I need answer to question - WHEN IT WILL BE DONE? How long I have wait for it? How stable it will be (after moving from Borland to VC++)? Will be annoying bugs removed?

This is a question about - to live PMail on my home computer - or to die? I'm not kidding!

In the announcements forum yesterday David Harris posted that the beta of Pegasus 4.5 would be made available to the community shortly.   I'm looking forward to beta testing it at home myself but I probably will not roll it out at work until the release is available.

I really must get round to trying Pegasus with WINE too so that I can migrate away from Windows at home.

Ok then... Good news

Where I'd better post some most annoying bugs to be tested at first time? Can I do that in this thread?

About WINE - if only me developed this program - I'd rather turn not to Visual C++ but to GNU C++ and use TrollTech/Nokia Qt 4 for most things... It's damn powerfull! And of course then I'd release PMail under GPL.

A small mis-understanding: 4.5 Will not be released as Beta. The opening of the beta process will take place immediately after Pegasus Mail 4.5 is out. Opening for a public beta of 4.5 will delay the formal release, and David has a personal fixed deadline to get 4.5 out the door.

Current closed beta activity regarding 4.5 VC18/RC1 yielded 34 messages yesterday and 39 messages so far today - meaning: the Pegasus Mail v4.5 testing activity is very intense since the release of Mercury/32 v4.62

Here's a small snippet of beta conversation:

On 6 Aug 2008 at 11:17, Thomas R. Stephenson wrote:

> There are still a lot of broken SMTP servers out there that
> advertise CRAM-MD5 but then reject all authentication using this
> option.  Is it possible to add the ability to bypass the CRAM-MD5
> even though the host advertises it? I'd like WinPMail v4.5 to be
> able to bypass this like MercuryC? 

I've added this option tonight - look for it in the "Security" page of the 
SMTP definition editor in the next RC.

Cheers!

-- David --

------------------ David Harris -+- Pegasus Mail ----------------------

"improperly" means - in wrong charset

 exactly in European instead of Cyrillic

Have you tried clicking the "V" button to swap modes from/to Plain/Fancy?

yep, tried - result was the same, nothing changes after "V" pressing