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August 2025 - Pegasus Mail v4.91 is finally out!
Not a long progress update this time - the subject says it all really.
After more complications than I would ever have believed possible, the beta team and I are pleased to announce that Pegasus Mail v4.91 is now – at last – available. You can retrieve it from our Downloads page.
Please note that downloads may be a little slow at the moment — we're still trying to resolve some performance issues that are a result of being forced to move our web presence from the East Coast of the USA to our home site in New Zealand. Please bear with us if your downloads take a bit longer than you expect.
Version 4.91 won't seem very different on the outside if you've previously used v4.80 or the v4.81 beta with GMail OAUTH2 support... But internally more than 100,000 lines of code have changed as we go through an arduous process of modernizing the Pegasus Mail source code to work better on more modern versions of Windows like Windows 11. Many of these changes are essential even if they don't necessarily result in new functionality or capability in the program, but with them done, it will be easier to add new functionality in future.
If you have any problems with v4.91, please raise them on the Pegasus Mail Community Site - both I and my testers are active there and it is definitely the best way to bring problems to our attention.
June 2025 - Well, THAT was interesting... *sigh*
Back at the start of November last year, I announced I would be putting out monthly progress updates. Then, in December, when I went to put up the second update, I found that Amazon, who handled the hosting for my pmail.com web site, had effectively locked me out - they had, for reasons that I still don't understand, removed my ability to write to the site. Since that time, I have been going through a process of moving the hosting of my web site back into my home domain - something that has proven more complicated than I expected, and which has been hampered by a number of other issues.
During that time, I *have* been putting up regular updates, but the only place I could do that was the Pegasus Mail Community site. Rather than rehash those updates, I have transcribed them here - you can read them using the following links:
November 2024 progress update – "The Very First Update"
December 2024 progress update – "DKIM at last"
January 2025 progress update – "Web hosting emergency"
February 2025 progress update – "Web server development, WinPMail futures"
March 2025 progress update – "Pruning the WinPMail settings tree"
April/May 2025 progress update – "April is the cruelest month"
Not having control of my website has sown chaos in most of my plans for this year: not only could I not issue progress reports, but I couldn't distribute new versions of the programs (I was locked out of that by the same problem that locked me out of the main site). In order to regain control, I have had to do what I frequently find myself having to do these days, which is to compensate for a lack of resources by spending time developing my own solution: while this isn't entirely a bad thing – it has resulted in a lot of new Mercury code that I believe a number of sites will find handy – it has the effect of pushing all my other work (and there's plenty of it) into the background for a while.
What this episode has mainly taught me is that being as under-resourced as I am leaves me close to disaster all the time. I am currently doing what I can to improve things like development hardware and network speed (important now that I'm doing my own hosting), but with limited means this is always going to be a struggle. While that possibly sounds like a thinly-veiled plea for donations, it's not – my users are already donating as much as they can, and I would not willingly ask for more from them; but if any company was willing to offer a small annual sponsorship for the programs, I would love to talk to them about that to see if there is some mutually beneficial deal we could make.
With all of this fiasco now hopefully behind me, I can finally return to the work that has been stalled by it. Expect to see new releases of both programs very soon – a consolidation release in the case of WinPMail, and a feature release with DKIM support and all the work I've done to get my hosting going again in the case of Mercury.
That's about it for now - watch out for the next progress update at the start of July.
All my best to you,
Cheers!
-- David --
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