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The text now says: "Version 5.0 is now scheduled to be released in the beginning of 2006. It remains to be seen whether it will fix the 'feature' that prevents a user from doing a 'reply all' and forces the user to re-enter recipients individually" (where "now" means March, 2006).
As far as I understand this description, I think it is not correct. When using Pegasus Mail, you may want to follow these steps and find out for yourself:
One of those options enables the user to choose to whom the reply is to be sent. You can choose either "All recipients of the original message" or "Recipients selected using the controls below" (when choosing the latter, you have some additional options to choose from). The first option should do a reply-to-all.
Pegasus Mail's help file contains a similar description. Its help page titled "Options for replies" says that the first option "tells Pegasus Mail to attempt to send your reply to every person who received the original message."
To answer the question: I think Pegasus Mail does not prevent the user from doing a reply-to-all. --
Thomasnimmesgern 21:10, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
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I have been a Pegasus Mail user for over 10 years, and while I agree that "it should be up to the users to determine how to use their e-mail," in practice all too often e-mail clients do that for them and produce results not intended by the user. Outlook Express is particularly notorious for that: one of the many issues I have with that program is that its design always underestimates users' intelligence and "decides" many things for them, or at least does not make clear what exactly it is going to do.
In that respect, the "reply-to-all" feature is particularly emblematic: I have lost count of how many times I saw someone (not incidentally, mostly an Outlook or Outlook Express user) send a message to many people at once (not using "Blind carbon copy" as would be advisable in such cases), then one of the recipients meant to reply to the sender, but the reply was sent again to all the original recipients instead. This can be very irritating, not to mention wasteful of resources and a potential cause of social embarrassment and security breeches (as sensitive personal comments and confidential information can reach people who were not meant to read that).
I believe this is what David Harris meant by saying that "reply-to-all" is "the single most abused feature on the Internet." Having been annoyed and clogged by such messages countless times (including a particularly nasty case this very week, when I got TENS of replies I did not want or need to read), I can hardly disagree, even though "abused" would imply that users do that on purpose, which is often not the case.
Pegasus Mail was not originally intended to be an e-mail client for "power users," but the way things happened throughout the years, it ended up being exactly that - and, in my opinion, it remains the best e-mail client for users with special needs and with knowledge to harness the extremely powerful features it offers. Those niche users are knowledgeable enough to let Pegasus Mail reply only to the sender by default and perform that extra operation only when needed - which should be an exceptional and occasional case, rather than the rule, otherwise e-mail would be simply not the best means of communication for that user's needs. Setting up a discussion group or on-line forum (for example) would be more appropriate in most such cases.
The latest Pegasus Mail version at the time I'm writing this (4.41) still does not include a "reply-to-all" button. I hope version 5.0 does not, either! :-)
-- UrsoBR 15:45, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
The text now says: "Version 5.0 is now scheduled to be released in the beginning of 2006" (where "now" means March, 2006).
That is programmer's time :-). At the time of writing, Pegasus Mail 4.31 has been released, and
David Harris is working on the new features of Pegasus Mail 5, especially the calendaring- / schedule-module.--
Thomasnimmesgern 21:10, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
On November 30, 2006, David Harris posted an announcement [ [1]], which says that he is scaling back his involvement due to financial concerns. It appears that version 5 is postponed indefinitely. Instead, "...a Vista-ready version of Pegasus Mail v4.4 will also be made available. This work will be completed by the end of January 2007." I applaud his efforts, and wish him good luck.
Now, as for the version 5 entry, I think we can dispense with that and put in something about "Vista-ready" instead. Also, I wish to remove the remark concerning "reply all," since it is written in a non-neutral manner. Rbstrand 01:44, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
Apparently development has resumed. -- THE FOUNDERS INTENT PRAISE 15:05, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
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Pegasus Mail is one of the very early email clients designed for both technical and non-technical audiences, and is thus one of the trailblazers of modern email. I'd like to add a (modest) history section to this article about Pmail and its technical ecosystem. Are there good reasons not to do so? Wefa ( talk) 17:03, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
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There is an interesting Independent review in InfoWorld, December 6, 1993 of v1.0 on pages 84 and 88 (6 Dec 1993 ISSN 0199-6649 Published by InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.) Djm-leighpark ( talk) 13:52, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
The announcement by David Harris, the developer, is here, at https://community.pmail.com/index.php?u=/topic/11559/pegasus-mail-v4-80-released
The download page, updated for version 4.80, is at here, at http://www.pmail.com/downloads_s3_t.htm
I have downloaded and installed it, and it seems to be working fine, so the Wikipedia article should probably be updated.