Pegasus Mail - Advanced Features

Advanced Features

Pegasus Mail's takes an "old-fashioned" approach with advantages for knowledgeable users with complex email usage patterns, or who need special features. Some examples include:

• support for three encoding standards (MIME, uuencoding and BinHex);
• a powerful filtering system, so much so that it is possible to run a fully automated client-based electronic mailing list (including processing subscriptions, unsubscriptions and forwards to moderation) using solely Pegasus Mail;
• the ability to automatically select which email address to send a reply from, based on the mail folder containing the original received message;
• the ability to include custom e-mail header lines (useful for tracking emails, for example);
• the ability to delete attachments without deleting the message's text body, or to delete the HTML version of a message while keeping the plain-text version, or vice versa, saving disk space;
• easy access to a message, including all headers, in raw form, which is difficult or impossible in some other clients;
• a "tree view" of the structure of a multipart message with all its sections and attachments, giving access to view or save any of the parts separately.

The drop in usage and funding slowed development, and features that were initially to be included in version 4 were not implemented. Some of these features are scheduled for inclusion in version 5.