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Version: Pegasus Mail 4.12a
"The most powerful email client in existence"
Summary: Since is quite a widely used program(5 millionish users) I thought it deserved a more thorough review than the cursory and quarter-assed glance CNET gave it. It had little to no discussion of Pegasus mail's features or flaws. Yes, the mail folders have non-standard names. If you can stand the initial, overwhelming wave of confusion and fear "Copies to Self" invokes, it will take you, 1, maybe 2mins to adjust. Or, for you technological savants out there you could... rename the folder. Tools|Options|Copiestoself. You can have pretty much any arrangement of mail folders/sentmail you want: multiple mailboxes, multiple copies to multiple folders, automatic filing of sent mail based upon any attribute you want. The filtering is the best of any email client in terms of power and stability, you can filter mail by the breakfast of the person who sent the mail. No fooling, it is that good. You can sort your mail by any combination of these attributes: priority, size, header, length, attribute, encryption, read-only, html and use regular expressions. You can use these filters to remove senders from list, mark as read, play a sound, except from other rules, pop up dialog boxes. It has control-flow statements so you can repeatedly apply filtering variations to folders or messages. The address book is another strong point. Certainly you have to tweak the spam protection(like any spam filter it won't work perfectly out of the box). It is tiny in terms of system resources, 4-8mb ram, 4 HDD, and never ever crashes. Security is also great, the most secure client out there. Dodges all the viri written for MS stuff and won't execute scripts. What sucks: attachments: you can drag-and-drop into, but not out of. Also, you can't drag-and-drop messages onto the desktop. The address book is well-designed, but how to export/import to/from other apps, files is not readily apparent. Overall, it is a very powerful program, that if you have some basic familiarity with, will make you emailing easier and quicker.
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When you open the address book window an additional menu item will appear called 'Addressbook' offering various ways of importing/exporting. You can import/export your address book using .csv files. Such files can be imported/exported by Microsoft Excel.
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