For those who don't yet know (there have been no real mail announcements - not even to pm-news), you can get the terrible news from: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/05/pegasus_free_email/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_Mail http://www.pmail.com/
Downloads and the rest of the site can still effectively be accessed if you bypass the homepage, like this: http://www.pmail.com/downloads.htm Mercury and Pegasus Mail were not open source (Pegasus Mail used thirdparty proprietary components), so will they ever go on now? David Harris was thinking about Open Source. Financial circumstances were obviously a serious problem, and no wonder. In November he announced the free release of the support-subscription-provided PDF manuals, but his primary mail exchanger (persephone.pmail.gen.nz) has been unreachable since his announcement and my email questions about this (I'm a former support subscription holder) are of course unanswered. Finally, his announcement suggests he will advise people on alternatives; we shall have to see what this means. Pegasus and Mercury were powerful programs and it's no surprise that accmailers take a fancy to them. Me - well, I've been using Pegasus since 1998 and I'm very sorry to see its effective demise. I will not transition unless there is a reason to do so, though, and continue to use it now. For a few years (around 2000-2003) I also used Mercury as my primary mailer (though my demands soon outstripped its capabilities and I'm now using Sendmail with all that Unix power). Once again, solid stuff that'll be missed. Sabahattin PS: since I first posted this, persephone is back up and receiving mail again. I have therefore been able to retrieve my final manual sets. The author has not yet gotten back to us, though, so I'm just going to assume for now that he would rather people not try to download anything. The announce lists are up, but silent. PPS: there's an addendum to the announcement at http://www.pmail.com/ . It may answer some of the above - namely, it is financial difficulty, it might not be a tragedy with the right sponsorship, he may consider opening the source. -- Sabahattin Gucukoglu <mail<at>sabahattin<dash>gucukoglu<dot>com> Address harvesters, snag this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +44 20 88008915 Mobile: +44 7986 053399 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To contribute to the discussion, email to accmail@listserv.aol.com To unsubscribe, email to the *admin* address [EMAIL PROTECTED] with UNSUBSCRIBE ACCMAIL as the message body. WWW: http://emailonly.szs.net/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
