The Internet's longest-serving PC email system, still being updated

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Post by francescovaglia » Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 10:54 AM UTC

The Internet's longest-serving PC email system, still being updated
pmail.com

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Post by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK » Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 6:42 PM UTC

I remember setting it up in 1996 for our small company:) Was a replacement for Compuserve :)

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Post by dang » Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 7:44 PM UTC

Related. Others?

Pegasus Mail - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36988047 - Aug 2023 (92 comments)

Pegasus Mail Newsflashes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31413891 - May 2022 (3 comments)

Pegasus Mail, 30 Years On - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21975087 - Jan 2020 (46 comments)

Pegasus Mail - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14144731 - April 2017 (49 comments)

Pegasus Mail: Twenty years and counting... - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2115730 - Jan 2011 (12 comments)

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Post by jjbinx007 » Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 8:47 PM UTC

We used to run this on our Novell Netware system and it integrated beautifully.

I still use it occasionally even now when I want to decode attachments from emails that I only have the plain text of.

We also ran Mercury Mail server for a few years as well. The software always felt like it was a labour of love from the author.

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Post by cgcrob » Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 9:52 PM UTC

Looked after a 1000 seat Pegasus and Mercury installation on Netware in the 90s. Surprised to hear it is still going!

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Post by layer8 » Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 9:54 PM UTC

The progress updates promised on https://www.pmail.com/devnews.htm can be found at https://community.pmail.com/index.php?u=/category/progress-u....

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Post by miles » Sun, Feb 23, 2025, 12:16 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #3

Related. Others? Pegasus Mail - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36988047 - Aug 2023 (92 comments) Pegasus Mail Newsflashes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31413891 - May 2022 (3 comments) Pegasus Mail, 30 Years On - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21975087 - Jan 2020 (46 comments) Pegasus Mail - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14144731 - April 2017 (49 comments) Pegasus Mail: Twenty years and co…

While not receiving any comments or many votes on HN[1], this 4-page article was worth reading too:

I've never been a businessman - https://www.golem.de/news/interview-with-david-harris-i-ve-n...

[1] For 30 years Pegasus Mail has been the project of a single programmer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25526517 - Dec 2020 (0 comments)

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Post by Karellen » Sun, Feb 23, 2025, 12:58 AM UTC

So nice that the site still has an "email etiquette" page - so few of those still around these days!

https://www.pmail.com/etqtte.htm

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Post by felixding » Sun, Feb 23, 2025, 3:51 AM UTC

The website was made using FrontPage 3. Ha, that brings back a lot of memories.

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Post by fulafel » Sun, Feb 23, 2025, 7:32 AM UTC

Anyone have links or something else to relate about what would be the oldest x86 SMTP node?