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Pegasus and Mercury Circling the Drain

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the check-is-in-the-mail dept.

Daemon Duck writes "One of the web's oldest and most respected email clients is flickering out of existence. Pegasus mail and its companion SMTP server, Mercury32, have been discontinued due to lack of funding for the ongoing development. On the website, the author David Harris states that if some funding becomes available he would consider opening the source code or continuing the development."

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  1. Gmail, anyone? by calderra · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'm done with POP mail pretty much altogether- I'm tired of server settings, and odd issues with clients connecting, and updates to a program freaking out my connection to the mailserver, etc etc. I use Thunderbird at work only because it's the reccomended method (read: ensures no one can claim delays any different from the rest). When I pop onto Gmail (with lots of auto-spam filtering) or indeed Hotmail (set to Exclusive mode for registrations, etc), my mail just works.

    And I can check it at work, or at home, on pretty much whatever OS I please and I never have to worry about carrying my settings, or what client is available, or whether my mails are deleting from the server, or firewalls- unless freemail is blocked of course, in which case POP mail certainly would be as well anyway, making it a moot point.

    As far as I'm concernt, POP mail altogether needs to be seen as a dinosaur. There has got to be a better way. Personally, it's Gmail.