Download Pegasus Mail 4.62

Pegasus Mail is an email program that has been around for over twenty years. It was ahead of its time in the beginning, but its success has waned since Microsoft ships Outlook Express as standard with Windows. 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 good in. Version 4.62, most likely the last release in the 4.x series, should, among other things, fix HTML rendering issues in Internet Explorer 9. Below are the release notes for this release:

Pegasus Mail v4.62 Interim Release

Version 4.62 mainly concentrates on fixing late-breaking incompatibilities in HTML rendering caused by the release version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 browser. V4.62 users should experience reliable, high-quality HTML display using this version, with the quality of rendering being even higher than in previous versions.

• Updated editor – V4.62 also uses a heavily-updated version of the editor module we use, and has numerous changes in the way editing buffers are constructed, meaning it should now be able to edit and reply to much more complex HTML message formats than previous versions, and editing should be much more reliable.
• Open link in background – You can now Ctrl+Click on any link in a message to open that link in your web browser without bringing the browser to the foreground. This allows you to open a succession of links then work with them when you’re ready.
• Signatures overhauled – The way signatures are handled has been totally overhauled, and you should now find they work considerably better when you insert them at compose-time.
• Faster POP3 downloads – POP3 downloads should be significantly faster when you have chosen to leave mail on the POP3 server.

Finally, quite a few small bugs, some of them quite long-standing, have now been fixed.

We expect this to be the last release in the V4 family of Pegasus Mail, with the next release being the first iteration of the V5 family.

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