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- Date: 26 Sep 93 12:52:00 EST
- From: "Troen, Bruce" <BRUCE.TROEN@med.umich.edu>
- Subject: Pegasus Mail Information (long)
-
- In Info-Mac Digest V11 #191, Achim Voermanek asks about Peagasus. Here is a
- posting from the author. At present, Pegasus for the Mac requires a Novell
- Netware server. Apparently a future version will not.
-
- Bruce R. Troen
- bruce.troen@med.umich.edu
-
- _____________________________________________________________________________
-
-
- +----------------------------+
- | Pegasus Mail Information |
- +----------------------------+
-
- Current versions:
- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
- Program: Archive Filename Version
- -------------------------- ---------------- ---------
- Pegasus Mail for DOS: (PMAIL235.EXE) 3.0 (R1)
- Pegasus Mail for the Mac: (PMMAC202.HQX) 2.0 (R2)
- Pegasus Mail for Windows: (WINPM101.ZIP) 1.0 (R1)
- Mercury Mail transport: (MERC110.ZIP) 1.1 (R0)
- PMPOP POP3 Gateway: (PMPOP100.ZIP) 1.0 (R0)
-
- Availability:
- -=-=-=-=-=-=-
- Pegasus Mail and Mercury can be obtained as follows:
-
- * Via anonymous FTP on the Internet - from:
- risc.ua.edu, in /pub/network/pegasus
- tyr.let.rug.nl, in pub/pmail
-
- (These are my officially supported sites, although other
- FTP sites also carry PMail including wuarchive.wustl.edu).
-
- * From CIS (CompuServe Information Service)
- In the "NOVUSER" library forum. To get to NOVUSER, type "GO
- NOVUSER" at any CIS "!" prompt. After entering the forum, choose
- "Library" from the menu, or type "lib" to get to the library
- files. Search for the keywords "David" "Harris" or "Pegasus" to
- find the most recent files.
-
- * By sending a diskette, a self-addressed envelope,
- and US$10 (postage and handing) to:
- Pegasus Mail, Box 5451, Dunedin, New Zealand.
-
- Overview
- -=-=-=-=
-
- Pegasus Mail is an electronic mail system for PCs and
- Macintoshes connected to Novell NetWare Local Area Networks. It
- is full-featured, easy to install and maintain, and best of
- all, it is completely free - you can use it on as many servers
- and PCs as you wish without any charge or obligation. It has
- its own transport agent which can deliver between servers
- without gateways, has full support for SMTP mail via either the
- Clarkson Charon SMTP gateway or my own Mercury Mail Transport
- System, and has full native support for NetWare SMF transports
- such as NetWare MHS and NetWare Global MHS. All standard mailer
- features are present, and a number of enhancements. Here is a
- partial list:
-
- * CC, BCC, Copy-to-self, Reply-to fields supported.
- * Message encryption using a very secure algorithm
- * up to 64 attachments per message (attachments to the
- Internet are automatically uuencoded/uudecoded).
- * Comprehensive editor with spelling checker (60,000 words)
- * Minimal installation (copy two files to the server), and
- no maintenance (uses the NetWare Bindery for userids, and
- the SYS:MAIL directory structure for mailboxes), unless you
- are using NetWare SMF transports.
- * Newmail filtering rules - automate new mail processing.
- * Delivery and proof-of-reading confirmation supported.
- * Extensive supervisor controls on system features
- * Direct access to user lists from the NetWare Bindery,
- NetWare MHS NETDIR.TAB file, and SMF-71 extract file.
- * Extensive address book features with aliasing.
- * Extremely user-configurable
- * User-defined gateways - design your own mail transport
- and teach Pmail how to use it.
- * Keystroke macros
- * Autoforwarding (except for NetWare MHS)
- * Save messages in progress for later retrieval
- * PostScript support, and printing direct to NetWare queues
- * Extremely comprehensive context-sensitive online help.
-
- ... and a raft of other features and capabilities. Despite its
- range of features, most users say they find Pegasus Mail very
- easy to use.
-
- Note: at present, the Mac version of Pegasus Mail requires a
- connection to a NetWare server to run - it cannot run over plain
- Appletalk. The next version of PMail/Mac will support TCP/IP
- protocols if you have MacTCP or LAN Workplace for Macintosh and
- will no longer require the NetWare connection.
-
- --
-
- Mercury is a mail transport system which provides comprehensive
- SMTP mail services for TCP/IP networks. It runs as a set of NLMs
- on NetWare 3.11 file servers using the standard NetWare TCP/IP
- transport services provided with NetWare. Mercury provides the
- following capabilities:
-
- * Transparent support for Internet/RFC822 electronic mail using
- Pegasus Mail and compliant systems; users can simply send mail
- directly to any Internet-format address without worrying about
- gateways, unusual address formats or other complications.
- * Full RFC821/822/1123 compliance, with support for some RFC1425
- (Extended SMTP) extensions.
- * Full POP3 (RFC1225) server built-in
- * Comprehensive mail server provides file transfer, distribution
- list management and user lookup and verification services.
- * Powerful distribution lists with support for list moderation,
- automatic subscription and unsubscription, review and more.
- * Very low memory and load overheads for the server.
- * Relatively simple installation.
- * Automatic reply feature - allows replies to be sent in response
- to incoming mail (very similar to the Unix "vacation" program).
- * Comprehensive support for aliasing.
-
-
- Users Group
- -=-=-=-=-=-
-
- A users group for Pegasus Mail operates via e-mail. You can
- subscribe to the group by sending a message to:
-
- Internet: listserv@ua1vm.ua.edu
- Compuserve: >internet:listserv@ua1vm.ua.edu
-
- with a message body which says
- "subscribe PMAIL Firstname Lastname"
-
- Discussion, questions, answers and other general traffic should
- be sent to:
-
- Internet: pmail@ua1vm.ua.edu
- Compuserve: >internet:pmail@ua1vm.ua.edu
-
- The Pmail users group is operated by James Ford and the
- University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, who have my lasting thanks
- and appreciation for the amount of work they do running it.
-
-
- Manuals
- -=-=-=-
- Pegasus Mail is free software, and is provided with enough
- documentation and online help to be easily usable, but no
- formal manual is provided.
-
- In order to support the costs of hardware and software involved
- in developing Pmail, I sell printed manuals. There is no
- obligation to purchase manuals - none whatsoever. Purchasing
- manuals does, however, help me in my work and also gives you a
- tangible asset for your money. The manual is provided loose-leaf
- in a protective folder, ready for copying. The quality of the
- manual is high. Please DO NOT feel obligated to purchase manuals
- - money is much less important to me than having people use and
- enjoy Pegasus Mail.
-
- I sell manuals in three ways:
-
- * 5-user manuals: you get one printed manual with a license to
- make up to 5 further copies. This costs US$125 (US$150 for
- WinPMail).
-
- * Site-licensed manuals: you get one printed manual with a license
- to make as many copies as you wish for one site. One site is
- defined as the extent of any organization in any one city or
- town, so if you have two branches in the same town, one site
- license will cover both of them. As well as the manual, site
- licensees get a diskette with RTF and ASCII versions of the
- manual. Site licenses cost US$275 (US$325 for WinPMail).
-
- * One year update license: this is a site license with automatic
- updates: any time there is a new release of the software or
- manual up to one year from the date of the license, it will be
- automatically mailed to you at no further cost. Update licenses
- cover all versions of Pegasus Mail, even those which do not exist
- at the time of purchase. Update licenses cost US$1000, and can
- be renewed each year for US$250.
-
- Any type of manual can be upgraded to the next level for the
- current difference in cost between the two levels.
-
- To order a Pegasus Mail Manual license, please print and fill
- out the order form supplied with the Pmail distribution as
- ORDER.FRM, then send it with your cheque or purchase order to:
-
- Pegasus Mail, c/- David Harris,
- P.O. Box 5451,
- Dunedin, New Zealand. (or Fax +64 3 453 6612)
-
- Purchase orders are accepted from any educational or charitable
- institution or government department, and from companies with a
- paid up capital in excess of $30,000.
-
- Payment must be made in US dollars, drawn on a US bank. There
- is usually a delay of around 2-3 weeks before a manual can be
- sent out, and I reserve the right to hold your order if a new
- release is pending (so you can get the new release).
-
- PLEASE, PLEASE! Remember to enclose the order form: I'm not
- psychic, and I can't guess at delivery addresses from a cheque
- alone...
-
-
- Contacting Pegasus Mail's Author
- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
- You can contact the author of Pegasus Mail in the following ways:
-
- * By e-mail (preferred)
- Internet: david@pmail.gen.nz
- CompuServe: >internet:david@pmail.gen.nz
- MHS: not currently accessible (working on that)
-
- * By fax (preferred if you don't have e-mail access)
- +64 3 453 6612
-
- * By phone (least preferred of all)
- +64 3 453 6880. PLEASE NOTE! New Zealand is GMT+1200 - this
- means that when it's 10am in California, it's somewhere around
- 4am in New Zealand, and I really DO get grumpy about being
- woken by the telephone at that time of day...
-
-
- I hope you enjoy using Pegasus Mail - I really enjoy making it
- available to people, and welcome your feedback and suggestions.
-
- -- David Harris --
-
- ------------------- David Harris -+- Pegasus Mail --------------------
- Box 5451, Dunedin, New Zealand | e-mail: david@pmail.gen.nz
- +64 3 4536880/Fax +64 3 4536612 | CIS: >internet:david@pmail.gen.nz
-
- Thought for the day:
- "Madam, there's no such thing as a tough child - if you parboil them
- first for seven hours, they always come out tender."
- -- W. C. Fields
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