[pmpgp-announce] Pegasus Mail v4.1 released
- From: "Michael in der Wiesche" <idw.doc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pmpgp-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 10:06:22 +0200
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The first of a number of releases of Pegasus Mail for Windows planned for
2003, Pegasus Mail v4.1 is now available. Version 4.1 is a major release
with some sophisticated new capabilities that set it apart from all
previous releases - one highlight, for example, is full support for
secure connections via SSL, using Peter Gutmann's superb cryptlib
encryption library (we will be making considerable use of cryptlib in
Pegasus Mail in the course of the remaining releases this year, by
providing S/MIME support, encrypted file formats and more). As well as
new functionality, version 4.1 also has many, many fixes and corrections,
and the incremental process of improving HTML rendering and reliability
without compromising security has continued. Click here to go to the
downloads page, where you can retrieve v4.1.
Here is a brief list of what's new in Pegasus Mail v4.1: note that it is
by no means complete - as you use the program, you'll find many other
small changes and improvements as well.
Content control This powerful new feature allows you to apply rigorous
testing to the content of the e-mail you receive. It is primarily aimed
at trapping spam, but can be used for much more if you wish. A basic
content control definition is provided with v4.1: simply by turning it on
(one click) you will find that the spam in your new mail folder is
reduced by anywhere from 50 - 90% (depending on the type of spam you most
commonly receive).
SSL Support Pegasus Mail now supports secure connections using SSL on
all the major protocols it supports - IMAP4, POP3 and SMTP. Using SSL
minimizes the chance that your e-mail can be intercepted during download
or sending, and Pegasus Mail's certificate fingerprint management ensures
that you are warned if someone attempts to masquerade as your server (a
so-called Man in the Middl
e attack). Strong encryption, with keys using 192 bits or even more if the
server supports it, is standard. SSL is configured on the Security page of the
configuration dialog for each protocol where it is available.
Rewritten POP3/SMTP code Pegasus Mail's POP3 and SMTP mail routines have been
totally rewritten for V4.1: you can now have multiple POP3 mailboxes active at
any time, can apply Pegasus Mail's powerful filtering rules to messages on the
server before they are downloaded, and there are several new and revised
features for controlling how much mail is downloaded from the server at any
given time.
Grouped views Pegasus Mail v4.1 provides you with a powerful new way of
organizing the mail within your folders: grouped views create a hierarchy
within your folders, allowing you to construct any of ten different
organizations of mail. Of particular note is our active threads grouped view,
which sorts messages into threads, then sorts active threads (those which have
new mail) to t
he top of the list. To experiment with grouped views, look on the Messages menu
if you use Pegasus Mail's preview mode, or on the Folder menu if you use
Pegasus Mail's classic mode to browse your folders. [ Personal note from David
Harris: to me, this is the best addition in v4.1 - I can't understand how I
ever lived without it ]
New skipping modes for the message reader Coupled with the new Grouped Views
feature is a set of skipping modes for the message reader: located on the
Reader menu under the section Next/Prev skipping modes, these options allow you
to tell the message reader to skip over read or uncoloured messages when you
click the Next or Prev button in the message reader. The new skipping modes h
ave convenient hotkeys so you can turn them on and off quickly.
Attachment browser in preview mode If you run Pegasus Mail in its three-pane
"preview" mode, you can now view and manipulate the attachments to your
messages simply by pressing the <F7> key to switch to attachment view. You can
switch back to the message view at any time by pressing <F8>. There are also
buttons on the preview window's ribbon bar to change views.
Template editor Pegasus Mail's Template Support (mail construction from a
pre-written script) is one of the most powerful features in the program, and
prior to now has been one of the least-used, because of its complexity. Pegasus
Mail v4.1 includes a powerful template editor that vastly simplifies the
process of writing and maintaining templates. With full editing assistance, it
al
lows you to build templates without having to worry about the details of the
template scripting language. It is accompanied by extensive additions to the
online help that describe the template scripting language.
Windows XP Look and Feel, improved status indicators Pegasus Mail v4.1
will automatically use the Windows XP "Look and Feel" if you run it on
Windows XP, and the folder and preview mode windows now have new, more
intuitive status indicators to show what each message in the folder is.
New option for creating default folders and files You can now create a
folder called DEFAULTS in the directory where Pegasus Mail is installed
and place in that directory any files that should be automatically copied
into the mailboxes of new (first-time) users. As installed, the directory
contains three default folders, a default addressbook and a default
Content Control set, but you can use it to add distribution lists, other
addressbooks, templates - any type of Pegasus Mail data file residing in
the user's home mailbox directory.
Improved multi-folder searching Searching through multiple folders has
been considerably improved in v4.1, with options to limit the search to
only messages falling within a particular age range, and to require all
search terms to match. These changes can dramatically decrease the time
it takes to search across all your folders for mail.
Michael
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