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David Harris posted Sep 15 '12 at 12:59 am

On September 6th, Thomas Stephenson passed away in his sleep. Many of you will have encountered Thomas over the years - for over 15 years now, he has been a major driving force behind Pegasus Mail and Mercury, particularly in supporting those people who use them. Thomas was capable of handling support loads that to this day I can barely understand: having burned myself out on support years ago, it was always a source of ceaseless amazement to me that he could continue offering his help day after day without apparently ever tiring of doing so. In this role, he will be missed.

Thomas was a vocal supporter and driver of the programs. When I had my "meltdown" in 2007, Thomas was one of the key steadying voices who helped me through the bad times, and his input into the shape and form of the programs for over 15 years simply cannot be measured. In this role, he will be missed.

A few years ago, Thomas, and his wife, Donna, visited me in Dunedin, where I live. I had the privilege of spending most of a day with them, showing them around Dunedin and having lunch with them at a little restaurant by the beach. It is surprising how few of my long-term beta testers and supporters I have ever actually met in person - a fact that makes me quite sad any time I think about it, but at least I was fortunate enough to meet Thomas. In the fifteen years that I knew him, I came to regard Thomas as a real friend, and while that would have been true even if I had never had the opportunity to spend some time with him, the memories will be that much stronger and better for having done so. And it is in this role, as a friend, that he will be most missed of all.

Rest easy, and rest well, Thomas.

-- David --

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PiS posted Sep 12 '12 at 12:00 am

From Facebook, Mary Stephenson Su, 9/5/12:

To the friends of Thomas R Stephenson: Tom (my dad) 
passed away last night from end stage lung cancer. He died 
peacefully in his sleep at home 2 months after his cancer 
diagnosis. He was joking up until the end.

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David Harris posted Jan 3 '12 at 1:04 pm

Pegasus

Mail v4.63 is now available from our download pages -


  


Although I

intended that v4.62 would be the last v4.x version of Pegasus Mail, it became

apparent that there were numerous small problems that would be best fixed by

another interim release, rather than waiting until the first iterations of

Pegasus Mail v5. As a result, we have put together v4.63, which has over 70

small changes, bug fixes and corrections. The modifications are mostly internal,

and there are few visible external or cosmetic changes in the program. It should

be very stable, and it is our intention that it serve as the formal release

while the v5 beta process takes place over the course of 2012. A parallel

release is being made of both German and English versions, with other

translations to follow soon.


It's also

worth noting that the Pegasus Mail installer and executable files are now

digitally signed, using my name ("David Harris"). If your browser or installer

complains about them being unsigned, or tells you that they have been signed

with a signature that does not use my name, then the files are not authentic. A

small security measure, but we believe it is quite

worthwhile.


And last,

but definitely not least: a very Happy New Year to you all!


Cheers!


-- David

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David Harris posted Jan 3 '12 at 1:03 pm

Mercury/32

v4.74 is now available from our download pages at -


   


I had

intended that v4.73 be the last in the v4.x family of Mercury versions, but at a

certain point it became clear that there needed to be another update to fix a

variety of small problems before beginning the migration to version 5. V4.74

contains over 40 small fixes, and two rather more significant corrections: a

problem where messages deleted by IMAP-based clients were not actually deleted

and reappeared on the next connection has been fixed; and an issue where a site

had more than 3 MX mail servers declared but the first three were all

unavailable (which could cause Mercury to attempt to connect to the wrong host

for delivery) has also been addressed.


It's also

worth noting that the Mercury installer and executable files are now digitally

signed, using my name ("David Harris"). If your browser or installer complains

about them being unsigned, or tells you that they have been signed with a

signature that does not use my name, then the files are not authentic. A small

security measure, but we believe it is quite worthwhile.


Finally, I

would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year for 2012!


Cheers!


-- David

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David Harris posted Sep 6 '11 at 8:15 am

September 5th 2011: Pegasus Mail v4.62 now available for public distribution

Version 4.62 mainly concentrates on fixing late-breaking

incompatibilities in HTML rendering caused by the release version of

Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 browser. V4.62 users should experience

reliable, high-quality HTML display using this version, with the quality

of rendering being even higher than in previous versions.

  • Updated editor  V4.62 also uses a heavily-updated version of

    the editor module we use, and has numerous changes in the way editing

    buffers are constructed, meaning it should now be able to edit and reply

    to much more complex HTML message formats than previous versions, and

    editing should be much more reliable.

  • Open link in background   You can now Ctrl+Click on any link

    in a message to open that link in your web browser without bringing the

    browser to the foreground. This allows you to open a succession of links

    then work with them when you're ready.

  • Signatures overhauled   The way signatures are handled has

    been totally overhauled, and you should now find they work considerably

    better when you insert them at compose-time.

  • Faster POP3 downloads   POP3 downloads should be significantly faster when you have chosen to leave mail on the POP3 server.

Finally, quite a few small bugs, some of them quite long-standing, have now been fixed.

We expect this to be the last release in the V4 family of Pegasus

Mail, with the next release being the first iteration of the V5 family, which we plan to release in a staggered pattern to ensure more regular updates.

I apologize to everyone for the length of time it has taken to get v4.62 out the door - many of the changes it required were quite subtle, and testing has taken a lot longer than we initially expected. I am trying hard to adjust the way development is conducted to allow more regular releases to be made, and hope you will bear with me in the meantime.

Cheers!

-- David --

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David Harris posted Apr 1 '11 at 2:21 am

Mercury/32 v4.73 has now been released. This new version contains significant new capabilities and a number of important fixes, especially for the MercuryI IMAP server.

V4.73 is the final iteration in the series of incremental upgrades to

Mercury v4.7 that has come out since its release, and will be the last

release in the v4.x family, with development proceeding to Mercury/32 v5

from this point on. We hope to release V5 sometime in 2011.



The following changes are present in v4.73:

  • Selective SSL options  The MercuryS SMTP

    server now has options that allow you to enable SSL support on the

    primary and alternate SMTP ports selectively (so, you can have SSL

    enabled on the secondary, but not on the primary, ideal for submission

    by your remote users). There are also new Access Control permission

    settings in the MercuryS ACL editor that allow you to enable or disable

    SSL based on the IP address of the connecting client.

  • ACL range corrections  In previous

    versions of Mercury, access controls would not work correctly if the

    address range exceeded 256 addresses, and would occasionally work

    incorrectly with particular address ranges. These problems have now been

    fixed.

  • Duplicate message suppression  You can now

    create an empty file called MSGIDS.MER in any mailbox directory (i.e, a

    directory where a .CNM file gets created), and this signals to Mercury

    that it should suppress duplicate messages in that mailbox. Duplicate

    detection is based on a combination of sender and message-ID, and only

    the last 200 messages delivered to the mailbox are actually remembered.

  • MercuryC forced sender option  This option

    allows you to specify a single address MercuryC should use as the

    source of the mail it is sending when it is negotiating with the

    upstream "smart host". This option is quite technical, being buried in

    the depths of the SMTP transaction itself, and does not affect the

    "From" field in the message, or alter the contents of the message in any

    way, other than altering the Return-Path header that the smart host

    will write into the message. It is primarily aimed at users of services

    such as Yahoo Premium Mail, which require the SMTP "MAIL FROM" address

    to be the address of a known subscriber.

  • Extended POP3 lockout detection  MercuryP

    now locks out any account with too many login failures for five minutes

    regardless of the address from which the lockout occurred. So, once any

    system has failed logging into a POP3 account, all systems are prevented

    from attempting to login to that account for five minutes. This feature

    is primarily aimed at botnets that attempt to crack passwords by

    logging in from successive different systems and trying

    username/password combinations until they fail, and is automatic.

  • Fixes for MercuryI IMAP  MercuryI now

    saves UID lists any time they change: this should prevent UID

    synchronization problems from occurring, but may introduce small extra

    processing delays with very large folders. There have also been some

    changes in the way the IMAP SEARCH command is handled that should

    improve performance and reliability in a number of search scenarios (in

    some cases spectacularly), and MercuryI now caches FETCH data which

    should significantly improve performance and reduce load when clients

    like Apple Mail fetch messages a chunk at a time.

  • MBXMAINT updated  The mailbox maintenance

    utility MBXMAINT has been heavily updated. It now fixes a wider range of

    problems, and can also correct folders where messages contain duplicate

    message identifiers (important for more reliable IMAP operation). The

    program has been split into a commandline version, MBXMAINT.EXE and a

    user-interface version, MXBMAINT_UI.EXE. Both versions have considerably

    better reporting and output.

  • Random filename generation fixed  A very

    long-standing problem where the "random" filenames generated by Mercury

    were not very random and tended to repeat has finally been found and

    corrected. Mercury should now generate much more "random" filenames and

    the possibility of filename collisions should be dramatically lower as

    of this version.

to go to the Pegasus Mail home downloads page and retrieve v4.73.

Cheers!

-- David --

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David Harris posted Feb 24 '11 at 12:54 pm

Pegasus Mail v4.61 is now available for public download in English, German and Italian versions: the French version will be released shortly.

Version 4.61 is an interim release

– not quite version 5, but part of the way there. We're releasing it

primarily because it incorporates some important bug fixes, but it has

some extremely worthwhile new capabilities too.

  • New HTML renderer  HTML has

    become increasingly common in e-mail, even though it is actually not

    especially well-suited to the medium and is technically challenging to

    implement there. Version 4.61 includes a new HTML renderer that uses the

    built-in power of Internet Explorer to render HTML. Developed by

    Michael in der Wiesche, this renderer has been exhaustively tested and

    secured, and we believe it meets all our very high standards for

    security. For people who really don't trust Internet Explorer, though,

    Martin Ireland's BearHTML renderer has also been improved and can be

    used instead with a single click of a button.
     

  • New graphics, updated interface

     Version 4.61 sports beautiful new graphics designed by Sven Henze. The

    program is also most of the way towards a redesigned user interface with

    a more "modern" 3D look. We believe the combination of Sven's graphics

    and the new look make the program very attractive in a classical way.
     

  • Numerous bug fixes  including,

    but not limited to the following: HTML messages with very long lines

    will now render correctly; mailto: specifiers are now removed correctly

    when adding addresses to addressbooks and lists; fixed crashes caused by

    various types of malformed message; corrected the colour selector for

    filtering rules; allowed folders to be dragged onto closed trays when

    rearranging the folder hierarchy... and many more.
     

  • Accent expansion in the glossary

     you can now create accented characters using the Glossary Expansion key

    (Ctrl+E in the English version). Simply type the base character

    followed by the accent you want added, then press Ctrl+E. For example,

    to create an e-acute character (é) simply type e' then press Ctrl+E. For

    a complete table of the accented characters that can be created,

    consult the full Pegasus Mail help file.
     

  • Confirm-reading prompts  You can

    now have Pegasus Mail prompt you for whether or not a

    confirmation-of-reading message is sent when a message contains a

    request for one (the original options for always and never sending them

    remain available as well). Make this change in the "Advanced" settings

    page.
     

  • Size column for drafts and queued mail  The window that displays draft messages and messages in the sending queue now includes a size column, by popular request.
     
  • Attachment size controls  System

    administrators wanting to control the maximum sizes of attachments sent

    with the program can now do so by running the LIMITS.EXE program

    supplied with the system. LIMITS.EXE allows you to specify both soft and

    hard limits (a "soft" limit pops up a warning but still allows the user

    to add the attachment, while a "hard" limit does not allow the

    attachment to be added). LIMITS.EXE places values in the Windows

    Registry, and system administrators may wish to remove it from the

    installation directory to a location not accessible to users.
     

  • Commandline and GUI versions of MBXMAINT

     The Mailbox Maintenance utility, MBXMAINT, now comes as two versions:

    MBXMAINT.EXE is a commandline utility that can be used in scripts, while

    MBXMAINT_UI is the traditional GUI version of the application. Both

    have also been slightly improved in the types of error conditions they

    can handle.

to go to the Pegasus Mail home site downloads page, where you can find the v4.61 release.

 

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Phons posted Feb 13 '10 at 4:00 pm

Hello community,

I've loaded up a nice '20th Anniversary of Pegasus Mail'-button Gold; spread and use them on your site and in your signature.

http://pmail.praktit.se/files/folders/community_add-ons_for_pegasus_mail/entry21916.aspx

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David Harris posted Jan 23 '10 at 2:01 pm

Pegasus Mail v4.52 is now available for public download.

V4.52 is all about allowing the program to work well under Windows 7: it can now use the new Microsoft mechanisms for registering itself as a system-level mail program (meaning it can be used to launch mailto: links from your web browser), and corrects a number of minor issues in previous versions, in particular the problem with some toolbar buttons either not displaying or displaying incorrectly. There are also some internal reliability fixes to do with the way certain types of folder damage are handled.

Producing a Windows-7-capable version of the program required migrating the Pegasus Mail source code from Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 to Visual Studio 2008: we expected this process to be easy and quick, but we were wrong - Microsoft made it much more difficult than should ever have been necessary. This is the main reason it has taken us as long as it has to get this release out the door. An unfortunate side-effect of this is that Visual Studio 2008 generates applications that cannot be run under Windows 98 or ME. As a result, v4.52 no longer works on these older versions of Windows. As I've noted in the information on the main Pegasus Mail site, we will see what we can do about putting together at least a matching version of v4.52 that *can* run under Windows 98 and ME, but it's clear that we are not going to be able to support these systems for very much longer.

Pegasus Mail v4.52 can be downloaded from the main Pegasus Mail web site, at : it will be made available here on the community as soon as humanly possible.

Cheers!

-- David --

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David Harris posted Jul 3 '09 at 2:07 am

Pegasus Mail v4.51 is now available for unrestricted public distribution - please visit for downloads and information, or check the download pages here at the community. The release version has had significant work since the public beta at the end of last year, and has some powerful new capabilities, most notably the addition of autofiltering folders.

The release of v4.51 marks the end of one of the most difficult development periods in the history of the program, and it seems appropriate that it should coincide with my attempts to ensure the long-term survival of the package: from here, development should be both easier and faster, and I do not anticipate ever again having such a long delay between releases. Your assistance is crucial to making this happen though, and if you haven't already done so, I would ask that you read the open letter at the main web site and see if you are able to help. To all of you who have already pledged your support, I offer my sincere thanks.

No version of Pegasus Mail has ever been as extensively or exhaustively tested as v4.51 - it's been a huge job, but ultimately rewarding, and my test team and I hope that you really enjoy using it.

Cheers!

-- David Harris --
July 3rd 2009.

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David Harris posted May 26 '09 at 11:22 am

A release candidate for Mercury/32 v4.71 is now available at . We intend to make this available only at the community site for a week or so before releasing it on an unrestricted basis.

The big news in v4.71 is the ability to run as a native Windows Service: we (the test team) have been using it extensively in this mode for quite some time and it's really quite cool. There are quite a few other small new features in there, and over 200 fixes and corrections.

Feedback is welcome in the Mercury beta forum here.

Cheers!

-- David --

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PiS posted Feb 15 '09 at 1:13 pm

2009-02-14
Wiki On-Line
Today we welcome you to the all new pmail Wiki!

A Wiki is an on-line documentation repository, where you can contribute. The wiki supports both Pegasus Mail and Mercury MTA, and it is multilingual. Try it out at
.


For a while there has been a wish to be able to extend the documentation of Pegasus Mail and Mercury Mail Transport Agent, plus concentrate information from various sources into one general repository. Today we proudly invite all users to contribute into creating the definitive guide to e-mailing in general, and about how the programs work in particular. All this will during 2009 be concentrated to http://wiki.pmail.com

In short time the knowledgebase documentation will be transferred onto the wiki, as well as the official software documentation, including help subsystems and development guides. Currently the closed beta team members concentrate in their free time on merging the documents, but this is a vast task. Pegasus Mail exists in several languages, but Mercury does not. Translation has always been a rather gigantic task. Both programs are used all over the world. Wiki.pmail.com therefore supports multiple languages, and you are all encouraged to pitch in and extend the documentation into your language.

Developers of daemons and extensions are most welcome to publish their how-to guides and accompanying documentation in this one place repository.

The basic idea of a wiki, is that anyone can suggest and contribute to completing the information. Seldom are the ones with deepest information equiped to write guides on how to use things, as the users themselves. At http://wiki.pmail.com anyone can add, correct or extend the information so that it is as comprehensible and complete as can be.

For those not so familiar with wikis, you may want to look at the original http://wikipedia.org site and you'll find a world of information. We have built http://wiki.pmail.com according to the same syntax, and on the same platform - to ease the use and contribution, and it is our hope that the pmail wiki will be of benefit to you all. The wiki contains a sandbox, were you can familiarize yourself with editing and contributing.

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PiS posted Dec 8 '08 at 12:11 am

Community.Pmail.Com now has native support for the following languages, Dutch, French, German, Italian and Swedish, besides English.

We have also added international Community support forums in Dutch, French, German and Italian. The aim is to make community.pmail.com a natural point of interest and a global repository of information regarding the products: Pegasus Mail and Mercury Mail Transport System.

To enable your preferred languague, you have to set your language in your profile. Your profile is reachable by clicking your name, which is displayed at the top right of all community pages.

We've also made some minor changes to the forum names, and merged some quite similar forums into more obvious forums.

It is my personal hope that you find this change easier and more appealing in your use of the forums.

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Pmail.Com posted Sep 3 '08 at 3:58 pm

Downloads are now available from the community.


Pegasus Mail Public Beta v4.51 (German)

Please use the Beta forum for any discussions regarding the beta versions.
Forum posts will be moved when they relate to the beta and have been published in the wrong forums. We are aware that moving forum threads creates trouble for those that keep up with unread posts, so please adhere to this policy.

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David Harris posted Aug 4 '08 at 3:15 am

As many of you have noticed ( <wry grin> )  the time between releases has in recent years been getting longer and longer, both for Pegasus Mail and Mercury.

The long period between releases does not, however, mean that nothing is happening: there are numerous reasons for the longer development cycles, many of which I have covered in my blogs, and in the background, there are many, many releases of beta versions of the program that are only ever circulated to members of the current closed beta test teams. To give you an example, there have been 22 formal betas of Pegasus Mail v4.5, and numerous informal betas where I wanted to try out a specific feature.

After consultation with my closed test teams, we've reached the conclusion that the community and the quality of the programs would be best served if we opened up the beta testing process: making betas available publicly would allow wider testing, as well as giving a clear, visible indication that the programs are alive and in active development.

Accordingly, after the release of Pegasus Mail v4.5 (which will be very soon now - we're testing release candidates at present), I will be opening the beta process. Most betas will be made publicly available on this community for both programs, and forums will be provided for feedback. Betas will be provided without support, typically will not include installers, and will be intended to be installed only by experienced users.

Watch this space for further announcements.

Cheers!

-- David --

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