Pegasus Mail

[queenpictoria]

I am sick of not being able to open attachments in OE.

I am fully updated and I continue to lose documents or pictures that people send me.

 

I was told that Pegasus Mail was very good. However, after looking around a bit on TCH, some use descriptive words such as "clunky" when describing Pegasus. Also I notice that there is no support.

 

If Pegasus is not the first choice, what is?

 

Thanks,

queenpictoria

 

april@queenpictoria.com

[TCH-Bruce]

Welcome to the forums April

 

I used Pegasus but that was so very long ago. It was a great email client back then.

 

I currently use Thunderbird from mozilla.org. It's not my intention to have you switch to Thunderbird, that would totally be your choice.

 

I'm sure others will offer an opinion of what they consider to be the best.

[TCH-Thomas]

I´ve never used anything but Netscape, Mozilla & Thunderbird so I can´t give that much advice but Thunderbird gets my vote of these ones.

[bellringr]

Hubby and I used Pegasus for years, but about 2-3 years ago we switched to OE, and now I've changed to Thunderbird. I will agree that Pegasus is "clunky" compared to other clients.

 

There are some features of OE that I miss, but not enough to keep it with all the security issues.

[stevevan]

Welcome to the forums. I also was one of those who used Pegasus years ago. After trying everything from OE to Pine, I too prefer Thunderbird.

[queenpictoria]

Thanks. I'll give Thunderbird a go.

I appreciate all of the input.

Maybe I can drive this thing.

[djk]

Welcome to the forums April 

 

I used Pegasus but that was so very long ago.  It was a great email client back then.

 

I currently use Thunderbird from mozilla.org.  It's not my intention to have you switch to Thunderbird, that would totally be your choice.

 

I'm sure others will offer an opinion of what they consider to be the best.

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I also used Pegasus until about 8 months ago when I switched to Thunderbird. Pegasus is a good client, but the guy changed the interface in a move he thought was progressive, I did not agree. Thunderbird is a good client also. They are both free and they both work well. One thing I wish Thunderbird had was a "compact all" folders. It's necessary to compact folders since they grow in size and stay that way even if they are empty until you compact them.

[TweezerMan]

Welcome to the forums, April!

 

I still use Outlook Express for a few reasons. Echoing the advice already given here, if I had to switch to another e-mail program, I'd definitely look at Thunderbird first.

[bellringr]

I also used Pegasus until about 8 months ago when I switched to Thunderbird. Pegasus is a good client, but the guy changed the interface in a move he thought was progressive, I did not agree. Thunderbird is a good client also. They are both free and they both work well. One thing I wish Thunderbird had was a "compact all" folders. It's necessary to compact folders since they grow in size and stay that way even if they are empty until you compact them.

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I have an option to compact folders in Thunderbird under File. Is that not what you are talking about?

[djk]

I also used Pegasus until about 8 months ago when I switched to Thunderbird. Pegasus is a good client, but the guy changed the interface in a move he thought was progressive, I did not agree. Thunderbird is a good client also. They are both free and they both work well. One thing I wish Thunderbird had was a "compact all" folders. It's necessary to compact folders since they grow in size and stay that way even if they are empty until you compact them.

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I have an option to compact folders in Thunderbird under File. Is that not what you are talking about?

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yes. thanks.

[Deverill]

There was a poll awhile back with a lot of discussion about email clients. Maybe it will help you find the best client.

 

I use Thunderbird myself for home and Outlook at work. I also used The Bat recently but didn't like their pay-for-upgrade policy. Had some really nice features though.

 

Basically it all comes down to what's best for you.

[annie]

I use a slightly earlier version of Pegasus. Never had a virus, used Pegasus since 1997.

 

One bug: Some e-mails with attachments crash the program. Those are mails routed to the spam folder by SpamAssasin anyway, so no great loss.

[DarqFlare]

I would be using Thunderbird if it offered tasks, notes and a calendar like Outlook. But unfortunately I need to use those features, so no Thunderbird here.

[djk]

I am sick of not being able to open attachments in OE.

I am fully updated and I continue to lose documents or pictures that people send me.

 

I was told that Pegasus Mail was very good.  However, after looking around a bit on TCH, some use descriptive words such as "clunky" when describing Pegasus.  Also I notice that there is no support.

 

If Pegasus is not the first choice, what is?

 

Thanks,

queenpictoria

 

april@queenpictoria.com

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one more thing to consider is that Thunderbird has an awesome trainable spam scanner, Pegasus was a series of manual rules.

[annie]

My ISP's mailserver is doing a wonderful job of catching spam via SpamAssasin. So I just filter for

X-Spam-Flag: YES

 

And that's that!

[carbonize]

I am sick of not being able to open attachments in OE.

I am fully updated and I continue to lose documents or pictures that people send me.

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So tell OE to let you open attachments. It's in the options, under security I think.

 

Anyway my experience with Pegasus mail was short and sweet. Well short anyway. I installed it and it looks very pretty and all. Three days later my computer dies and I have to format. Is Pegasus to blame? Probably not but I refuse to touch it again.

 

The Bat has some nice features like being able to set up exactly how forwarded emails look and replies. Other than that it's ugly and not very user friendly. I never have any problems with OE. I do like Thunderbird and would use it as my default client but there is no point me installing it as my other half just uses OE and we share a machine. Operas mail client used to be good but the new version sucks in my opinion.