Pegasus Mail is a proprietary email client developed by David Harris.
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13 Facts About Pegasus Mail
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Early versions of Pegasus were installed on MS-DOS or Mac workstations on a Netware network, and supported only mail between network users; for external the Mercury Mail Transport System for Netware was required.
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Pegasus Mail is suitable for single or multiple users on stand-alone computers and for internal and Internet mail on local area networks.
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Pegasus Mail has minimal system requirements compared with competing products, for instance the installed program for version 4.
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Significant feature of the Microsoft Windows version of Pegasus Mail is that users have the choice not to use Microsoft Internet Explorer's HTML layout engine when displaying HTML email.
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Malicious HTML tends to be highly dependent on the exact target application and OS, therefore by avoiding both the ubiquitous HTML renderer supplied with Windows and not allowing automation commands such as ActiveX and JavaScript to execute from within an email in its inbuilt renderer, Pegasus reduces substantially the risk of infection from viewing email.
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Pegasus Mail pioneered many features now taken for granted with other email clients, such as filtering and simultaneous access to multiple POP3 and IMAP4 accounts.
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Trends in interface design changed over the years, and Pegasus Mail did not follow those changes, still having essentially the same user interface it had in its first Windows version, with very few later additions.
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At the time Pegasus Mail was first conceived, its extensive array of features coupled with a simple user interface provided an ideal mix for most users' needs.
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Pegasus Mail's takes an "old-fashioned" approach with advantages for knowledgeable users with complex email usage patterns, or who need special features.
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Until 2006 all versions of Pegasus Mail were supplied free of charge, and printed user manuals were available for purchase.
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In January 2007 it was announced that distribution and development of Pegasus Mail had ceased due to inadequate financial support from the sale of the manuals.
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Since February 2009 Pegasus Mail has had its own Wiki, used as an on-line knowledge resource.
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