Software Update: Pegasus Mail 4.5.2

Pegasus Mail is an e-mail program that has been around for twenty years. In the beginning, it was way ahead of its time, but after Microsoft shipped Outlook Express as standard with Windows 98, its success waned. Its appearance has hardly changed since the early days and it lacks a calendar and newsreader. So the program is only for e-mailing, but that’s it very good in. Version 4.52 is fully compatible with Windows 7 and was created with a newer version of Microsoft Visual Studio, meaning it no longer works under Windows 9x. Below are the release notes for this release:

Pegasus Mail v4.52 Release

Pegasus Mail v4.52 is an update that provides support for the new Windows 7 operating system from Microsoft. All known Windows-7-related issues in v4.51 have been addressed, in particular the annoying problem where toolbar buttons would sometimes not appear correctly. As well, the program can now correctly register itself as a system mailer under Windows 7, meaning that it is now possible to click mailto: links in web pages and have them open in Pegasus Mail.

This has actually been a more major update than we expected, involving a shift between versions of the Microsoft Visual Studio development environment we now use that ended up being quite difficult. The development schedule is now back to normal, though, and work is progressing on a number of interesting new features in the program, many of which will be released this year.

Pegasus Mail screenshot, click on the image for a larger version.