  pegasus mail is a donationware (previously freeware), proprietary, email client that is developed and maintained by david harris and his team. it was originally released in 1990 for internal and external mail on netware networks with ms-dos clients, and was subsequently ported to microsoft windows, which became the most widely used version. a version for apple macintosh also used to be available. == features == pegasus mail (pmail) is suitable for single or multiple users on stand-alone computers and for internal and internet mail on local area networks. pegasus mail has minimal system requirements compared with competing products, for instance the installed program (excluding mailboxes) for version 4.52 requires only around 13.5 mb of hard drive space. since pegasus mail does not make changes to the windows registry or the system directory, it is suitable as a portable application for usb drives. language packs are available for languages other than english. a significant feature of the microsoft windows version of pegasus mail is that by default it does not make use of microsoft internet explorer's html layout engine to display html email. malicious html tends to be highly dependent on the exact target application and os, therefore by avoiding both the ubiquitous html renderer supplied with windows and not allowing automation commands such as activex and javascript to execute from within an email in its inbuilt renderer, pegasus reduces substantially the risk of infection from viewing email. (note that this is not the same as the risk of malicious email or email attachments if opened outside pegasus.) some commentators have described pegasus mail as convoluted and cumbersome to configure, whereas others value pegasus mail for the features it offers. pegasus has the facility, not provided by all mail clients, optionally to download headers only, allowing the user to s
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