| Pegasus Mail (PMail), by David Harris, is a free POP3 and IMAP email system for Windows, DOS, and Mac OS. It can run on a direct Internet connection or on any other network, and has many functions and feratures that typically are found only in server software. It supports multiple users, multiple address books, multiple distribution lists, extensive filtering, and much more. The latest version for Windows has: Three spam control tools; Filtering of mail on the server before downloading; Many mail sorting options and combinations; Macro capability; Integrated mail merge; Unicode character support; Improved HTML rendering; Excellent help files; and much more. Addons by a number of authors expand its capabilties in many directions. |
| Languages / character sets supported include Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish. Right–to–left languages are supported. |
| Pegasus Mail is free. Manuals, formerly given only in return for paid registrations, are free also. Users are now asked to make donations to support continued development of this great program. |
| Win32 |
| PMail 4.41 for Win98/Me/NT/2K/2K3/XP/Vista, features Spamhalter, a Bayesian spam filter; improved mail merge and Win98 support; and other new features and fixes. Complete installation program. Download (6.9MB) from: US — Switzerland — Russia — Australia |
| The PMail 4.41 Manual is now freely available. It remains copyrighted by Davis Harris, but a registration fee is no longer required to download and use it. Note that the license and distribution information in the manual's introduction have not yet been revised, but don't worry about it. PDF format, ~2MB when unzipped. Download (1.5MB) from: US — Switzerland — New Zealand |
| PMail 4.41 auf Deutsch und Englisch komplett für Win98/Me/NT/2K/2K3/XP/Vista (PMail 4.41 auf Englisch mit einem deutschsprachigen Modul). Installationsprogramm. Download (8,9MB) aus: US — Schweiz — Neuseeland |
| Module de langue française pour PMail 4.41 pour Win98/Me/NT/2K/2K3/XP/Vista. La traduction complète. Installateur automatique. Téléchargement (2,6MB): US — Suisse — Nouvelle Zélande |
| Modulo della lingua italiana per PMail 4.41 per Win98/Me/NT/2K/2K3/XP/Vista. La traduzione della interfaccia, guida contestuale inclusa. Programma di installazione. Scarica (1,7MB) da: US — Svizzera — Nuova Zelanda |
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| PMail 4.31 for Win95/98/Me/NT/2K/2K3/XP is the last version that supports Win95. Complete installation program. Download (5.8MB) from: US — Switzerland — Russia — New Zealand |
| Deutschsprachiges Modul für PMail 4.31 für Win95/98/Me/NT/2K/2K3/XP. Die komplette Übersetzung ins Deutsch der Benutzeroberfläche. Installationsprogramm. Download (1,7MB) aus: US — Schweiz — Neuseeland |
| PMail 4.31 auf Deutsch und Englisch komplett für Win95/98/Me/NT/2K/2K3/XP (PMail 4.31 auf Englisch mit dem deutschsprachigen Modul). Installationsprogramm. Download (7,8MB) aus: US — Schweiz — Neuseeland |
| Module de langue française pour PMail 4.31 pour Win95/98/Me/NT/2K/2K3/XP. La traduction complète. Installateur automatique. Téléchargement (1,8MB): US — Suisse — Nouvelle Zélande |
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| PMail 3.12c for Win95/98/Me/NT/2K. If you don't need all the new features of PMail 4.x, or if you need language modules that are not available for 4.x, try this version. It's smaller, a bit easier to learn and still does a good job (e.g., on a network where the server does the heavy spam and virus filtering). Installation program. Download (3.3MB) from: US — Germany — Australia |
| Deutschsprachiges Modul für PMail 3.12b/c für Win95/98/Me/NT/2K. Die komplette Übersetzung der Benutzeroberfläche. Installationsprogramm. Download (1,4MB) aus: US — Schweiz — Australien |
| Deutschsprachiges Modul für PMail 3.12b/c für Win95/98/Me/NT/2K. Die komplette Übersetzung der Benutzeroberfläche. Zip-Archiv für Installation 'von Hand'. Download (1,2MB) aus: US — Schweiz — Australien |
| Module de langue française pour PMail 3.12b/c pour Win95/98/Me/NT/2K. La traduction complète. Téléchargement (469K): US — Suisse — Australie |
| Český jazykový moduly pro PMail 3.12b/c pro Win95/98/Me/NT/2K. Kompletni uzivatelsky interface. Stažený (1.3MB) z: US — Nemecko — Nový Zéland |
| Mòdul Català per PMail 3.12b/c per Win95/98/Me/NT/2K. Traducciió de la interfície d'usuari, incloent l'ajuda en línia. Programa d'instal-lació. Labaixada (964K): US — Suissa — Nova Zelanda |
| Mòdul Català per PMail 3.12b/c per Win95/98/Me/NT/2K. Traducciió de la interfície d'usuari, incloent l'ajuda en línia. Arxiu ZIP per instal-lació manual. Labaixada (672K): US — Suissa — Nova Zelanda |
| Nederlandse module voor PMail 3.12c voor Win95/98/Me/NT/2K. Vervolledig overzetting van het gebruikersinterface, inclusief online hulp. Download (394K) van: US — Nederland — Nieuw-Zeeland |
| For WinPMail |
| Martin Ireland's Pegasus Mail Helper Applications Page has another fine collection of utilities that expand PMail's power, and perform other mail–related tasks. BEARHTML is the HTML renderer for WinPMail 4.3+, and is updated separately from PMail and more often. Originally by David Baldwin. Program messages can be in choice of English, French, Italian, German, or Hungarian. Help can be in choice of English, French, Italian, or German. Pegasus info: The v4.31 package has BEARHTML 2.5.5, and the v4.41 package has BEARHTML 2.7.6 — both should be upgraded to the latest available version. Also available: VIRSCAN, for WinPMail 3.x (16– or 32–bit) or 4.x, launches antivirus checking and reporting, in any of five languages, on messages and attachments (works with user's choice of AV program). VIRPROT is similar to VIRSCAN, but works with the Mercury Mail Transport System (network mail server). MAILMERGE is an expanded replacement, with improved attachment handling, for the Mlmrg32 extension that is standard in 32–bit WinPMail 3.x and in 4.x up to 4.31 (v4.41 has a new, integrated tool). NewsMail converts UseNet news postings to mail digests or separate messages, readable in PMail for any OS. NewsPost converts PMail messages into NNTP Newsgroup postings. RSSMail converts RSS summary data into a mail message, readable in PMail for any OS. PM2MSM extracts and saves the contents of a folder on a MAPI mail server (MS Exchange/Outlook or other). Saved contents are text message files, readable in PMail for any OS. |
| Spamhalter, by Lukas Gebauer, is a Baysian spam filter. It is part of the WinPMail 4.41 package, but is updated separately from WinPMail and more often. A new version is available now at the Community for Pegasus Mail and The Mercury Mail Transport System Add-Ons page. |
| Gerard R. Thomas has PMail extensions and other utilities. The Application Launcher (runexe) sets up toolbar buttons that start any executable files that you specify. Requires Win32, but works with 16– or 32–bit WinPMail, and can call any program that runs under Win32. QDPGP integrates PGP encryption, and QDGPG integrates GnuPG encryption into WinPMail. Other utils process PostScript files, add custom headers to outgoing WinPMail messages, and more. |
| Lexacorp Ltd. has another nice bunch of addons for PMail. A few of them: MsgCount reports the number of folders and messages in mailbox, the total size of all messages and total size of the mailbox directory. LstExpnd creates a plain text list of the addresses in a mailing list, and their address book entries. AttchWrn, an administrator's tool, prevents users from opening executables. It can also strip names from a list containing addresses, and sort the list. MailStrip has options to strip selected parts of a text file consisting of multiple saved messages. Get these and more, plus other programs that perform a variety of tasks for Windows and DOS: File uploading, IP address display, logging, and more. |
| Plato, The Quote Manager, by Leon Salters, organizes lists of quotations, for insertion into messages. It edits the lists (using any editor you specify), feeds them to PMail's rescom.exe compiler, and sorts them into folders. Multiple display options, exports to text file & more. Requires 32–bit Windows and WinPMail. Download (541K). |
| Thalia , from BitBuilt Software, is another quotation formatting tool. It edits quotations with its own internal editor, feeds them to PMail's rescom.exe compiler, and sorts them into folders. Thalia can "steal" lines from the Windows clipboard, and has a cataloging function. Works with 16– or 32–bit WinPMail. Requires Win32 and the Application Launcher PMail extension (included, but get a newer version from its author's site). Download v1.37 (330K). |
| PGP für Pegasus Mail / PGP for Pegasus Mail, by Michael in der Wiesche, is an extension that integrates PGP encryption (v6.5.x – v9.x) into PMail for Windows. Versions auf Deutsch / in English. |
| Oscar Vermolen's Toolbar buttons & Utilities for Pegasus Mail has more goodies. A few of them: RFC822 Converter converts a message with content–type Message/RFC822 for easy reading in PMail. MailReset removes message headers that have been added by PMail, POPFile, K9 and SpamWall. Use it to "clean" spam messages, so as to be able to use them to compare, test or train several anti–spam apps. charset changes a message's MIME character set from ISO–8859–1 to Windows–1252. EditMessage sends a message to any text editor. Message Notify alerts the user when a message arrives. |
| AntiSpam 3.0, from Toast Freeware, is a plug–in that probes selected messages, and extracts email addresses or domains. The extracts are then inserted into complaints that get sent to spam.abuse.net. Requires 32–bit Windows and PMail 3.12c or later. Download (544K). Get more info, in English and German, at the AntiSpam page. Source code is available at the File Releases page at SourceForge. |
| Helper Applications for Pegasus Mail for Windows, from The Navas Group, make PMail the default mailer for Netscape, hang up the phone, integrate PGP encryption into PMail, and much more. |
| WSendTo redirects the HTML mailto from a browser to WinPMail 3.x, making it your default emailer. Requires Win32, but works with 16– or 32–bit WinPMail. Note: If you have WinPMail 4.x, you don't need this — every 4.x package contains its own version. Download (177K) from: US — Switzerland — Australia |
| The Large US English dictionary is an optional replacement for the smaller UK and US dictionaries in PMail packages for DOS and Windows. For WinPMail, place it in the program directory, and it will be available in the spellchecker's dictionary list box with the small ones (deletion of the small US dictionary is recommended to avoid confusion, but is not required). For DOSPMail, rename it PDICT3.PMD, to replace the default small UK dictionary with that filename. Download (1MB) from: US — Switzerland — Australia |
| unix2pm, by James A. Perreault, is a DOS program that converts Unix mail folders to PMail folders or to separate message (incoming mail) files. Package includes executable and C source code. Download (20K) from: US — Switzerland — Australia |
| EConv, from A.N.D. Technologies, consists of two DOS utilities that convert mail folders, address books and other data from Eudora to Pegasus formats, and from Pegasus to Eudora formats. Download (35K). |
| Pegasus Mail Addon Programs for DOS and Windows, from Dragon Computer Consultancy, convert email data files to/from PMail, Eudora, Netscape, etc.; turn PMail into a file server; and more. |
| Just the FAQs, by Michael Bernardi is an index to a high quality collection of Internet manuals and links lists. Especially useful is the Guide to Pegasus Mail Addons List, a big catalog of diverse supplements to the DOS, Windows and Macintosh versions of PMail, with descriptions and source locations. Go to its Web page, or get it in plain text. Note: Use only this link for the current plain text version – the link in the Web page is old (2003). |
| Help & Info |
| The Official Pegasus Mail Site has the latest versions of Pegasus and the Mercury Mail Transport System for networks, downloads, email list signup, development news, language modules, FAQs, and more. This is also the place where you can make a donation to support continued development of Pegasus Mail. |
| The new Community for Pegasus Mail and
The Mercury Mail Transport System has program info, downloads, help forums, developers' blogs, FAQs and more. Whether you are a new or old user of Pegasus Mail, you will find something to like here. |
| Han's Pegasus Mail Site is a major source of everything for PMail, with a large and diverse collection of utilities and addons, news, info, and links to other interesting sites. |
| Il Sito Italiano ha tutto per PMail nell'italiano: Novità, informazione, istruzioni, diversi altri documenti, links, ecc. |
| Al Centro de Documentación de Pegasus Mail hay todos sobre PMail en español, otros sitios y más. |
| (In)Offiziele deutschsprachige Support Seite an der Technischer Universität Graz. Software, Wissensbasis, Entwicklungsgeschichte, Neues und Newsgruppe, andere Web–Seiten und Quellen der ganzen Welt. |
| (Un)Official Pegasus Mail Support Site at Graz Technical University, Austria, in English: Software, knowledge base, development history, news and news groups, links to other Websites and sources around the world. |
| Mag. Hermann Schrammel hat Hilfe, Tips, Einführung, wie verwendet man Pegasus als Standard-Mailprogramm mit Netscape oder Opera, und mehr. |
| Officiella Scandinaviska Site. Filer, support på svenska. |
| Scandinavia Site in English. Files, support. |
| E–mail for DOS, English — Nederlands, by Richard Kroonen, is a detailed guide to the software components of a complete PMail system, and how to put them together. |
| Setting up Email in DOS with today's ISP using a dialup PPP TCP/IP connection, by Dan Komáromi, is somewhat out of date, but is still a useful guide to setting up PMail for DOS. |
| At Free Software for DOS, the Communication & Internet and the More Resources pages have links to useful info & software for Internet users. Go back up to this page's Main Menu and select a Page One in or near your country. |
Download Sites
Also see the Alternate Downloads Page to see a large table of sites, with active links to programs listed on this page. |
Current sites
These have the latest and older versions of PMail, language modules and other addons, and the Mercury Mail Transport System for networks. |
| Official sites |
| US |
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University of Southern Maine, ftp — http (Primary download and mirrored site) |
| New Zealand |
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The Open Polytechnic, ftp — http (For Western Pacific region only) |
| Mirrors |
| Austria |
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Goodie Domain Service at Vienna University of Technology, ftp — http |
| Austria |
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University of Vienna, ftp (Windows & Mac PMail only) |
| Germany |
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Free University of Berlin, ftp |
| Poland |
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Rzeszów University of Technology, ftp — http (Windows PMail only, up to v4.31) |
| Switzerland |
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Swiss Education & Research Service, ftp — http |
Other Sites
These have not been updated recently, but are still good sources for older versions of PMail, language modules, utilities, and other stuff. |
| Australia |
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Planet Mirror, ftp — http |
| Australia |
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AARNet, ftp 1 — ftp 2 — http 1 — http 2 |
| Australia |
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FreeBSD, ftp — http |
| Estonia |
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Manitu Trading, ftp |
| Germany |
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University of Heidelberg, ftp |
| Germany |
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University of Jena, ftp |
| Hungary |
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EUROWEB Internet, ftp |
| Netherlands |
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Demon Internet Services, ftp |
| Spain |
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SunSITE RedIRIS (Interconexión de los Recursos InformáticoS), ftp — http |
| UK |
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SunSITE Northern Europe at Imperial College London, ftp — http — rsync |
| UK |
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Demon Internet Services, ftp 1 — ftp 2 (Different contents) |
| Network Connections |
| DOS programs that work with PMail for DOS, but do not require it. |
| DOS PPPD, by Antonio 'Toni' Lopez Molero, is a complete Internet connection kit, with dialer, packet drivers, and other tools that display stats, manipulate the serial port, debug & more. It runs on any PC from an XT up, and handles serial port speeds up to 115,200bps, as well as Ethernet connections. A very useful (but not required) helper app is SETUP for DOS PPPD, by Alfredo J. Cole. Also available: DOS PPPD's source code with extended manuals. The docs in the full packages are in English only — documentation in Spanish are available separately. Downloads: DOS PPPD v0.6 (320K) — Source & manuals (594K) — Docs in Spanish (20K) — SETUP for DOS PPPD (137K). |
| LSppp, by David Lindauer / LadSoft, is a PPP packet driver that handles Ethernet or serial port connections. A dialer is built in, but will not operate if LSppp detects a live connection. Small – a single executable takes up 28K memory. Parameter values are set in configuration files, or at the command line, or in an environment variable. ASM source code in package. Download v1.0 (97K). More info at the LSppp page. |
| Mail–related |
| DOS & Windows programs that work with PMail, but do not require it. |
| FDSMTPOP for DOS, by Yuri Semënov and John Zappe, is an (E)SMTP/POP3 mail send/receive gateway that supports current SMTP and Extended SMTP authentication protocols – PLAIN, LOGIN, and CRAM. It works with any DOS email setup. Package contains executable and Borland/Turbo C source code. Download v0.35 (134K). |
| YPOPs! (formerly YahooPOPs), is a Windows program that, when used with any emailer, provides free POP3 and SMTP access to an account at Yahoo! Mail's US and Japan sites (yahoo.com and yahoo.co.jp). Available for Win32, MacOS, Linux, Sun Solaris at the YPOPs! Website. Excellent online support. |
| POPFile, for Windows, is one of the best spam control programs, with many happy users. It is a Naive Bayesian email classifier, highly reliable because you can train it to do things your own way. Get versions for Windows and other OSes at its Download page. For more info in several languages, go to the POPFile Documentation Project. Note: A Bayesian system is already built into WinPMail 4.41. |
| Fentun, by Marc Seter, is a Windows program that reads Microsoft Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (TNEF) mail attachments. Works with browsers, emailers, or drag & drop. Available for Win32 and for Linux. Get downloads and complete info, including screenshots, at Fentun's Home Page. |
| ftp |
| Not a comprehensive list, just our favorites for Windows. Go to Free Software for DOS for DOS ftp clients and other file transfer programs. |
| WS_FTP LE, by John Junod, is an ftp client that automates downloads, uploads, directory sorting and updates, and lots more. Installation and full use are possible only under the Windows GUI, but some operations can be run from the command line (Win32 version only). The LE, or Limited Edition versions available here are free for non–commercial users. Current commercial versions (with free trial) are produced and released by Ipswitch, Inc. Downloads: v5.06 for Win16 (793K) — v5.08 for Win32 (540K). |
| FileZilla is an ftp / sftp / ftps (SSL/TLS) client, the best free one that we have seen, and competitive in power and quality with similar commercial programs. Features: Explorer interface; Organize site lists in a folder tree; Resume uploads/downloads; Custom commands; Keep Alive system; Timeout detection; Firewall support; SOCKS4/5 and HTTP1.1 Proxy support; SSL secured connections; Upload/Download queue; Drag&Drop; Multi-language support; GSS authentication and encryption using Kerberos; Import/export of site lists; and much more. Binaries are available for v2.2.22 (last for Win9x/Me) and v3.0.x (current for Win2K/XP/Vista, 32- and 64-bit Linux, Mac OS X on x86 & PPC). Source code is also available. For downloads and complete info on FileZilla Client and the companion FileZilla Server, go to the Home page, and to File Releases at SourceForge. |
