First published: 31st January 2007
David Harris, the creator of the Pegasus email client and Mercury email server, has announced that development and distribution of the software has ceased because of “ongoing difficulties with funding”. First launched in 1990 supporting DOS clients and Netware servers, development expanded this to Windows 3.1, then Win32 clients; and NDS and Windows for the server. Additional capabilities include POP3 and IMAP, system–wide folders, noticeboards, spam filters and managed mailing lists. Indeed, this newsletter is distributed through a Mercury–based mailing list.
Mercury and Pegasus have not been plagued by the vulnerabilities found in other, higher–profile, mail systems.