Pegasus Mail and Mercury Progress Updates
June 2025 - Well, THAT was interesting... *sigh* Back at the start of November last year, I announced I would be putting out monthly progress updates. Then, in December, when I went to put up the second update, I found that Amazon, who handled the hosting for my pmail.com web site, had effectively locked me out - they had, for reasons that I still don't understand, removed my ability to write to the site. Since that time, I have been going through a process of moving the hosting of my web site back into my home domain - something that has proven more complicated than I expected, and which has been hampered by a number of other issues. During that time, I *have* been putting up regular updates, but the only place I could do that was the Pegasus Mail Community site. Rather than rehash those updates, I have transcribed them here - you can read them using the following links: November 2024 progress update – "The Very First Update" Not having control of my website has sown chaos in most of my plans for this year: not only could I not issue progress reports, but I couldn't distribute new versions of the programs (I was locked out of that by the same problem that locked me out of the main site). In order to regain control, I have had to do what I frequently find myself having to do these days, which is to compensate for a lack of resources by spending time developing my own solution: while this isn't entirely a bad thing – it has resulted in a lot of new Mercury code that I believe a number of sites will find handy – it has the effect of pushing all my other work (and there's plenty of it) into the background for a while. What this episode has mainly taught me is that being as under-resourced as I am leaves me close to disaster all the time. I am currently doing what I can to improve things like development hardware and network speed (important now that I'm doing my own hosting), but with limited means this is always going to be a struggle. While that possibly sounds like a thinly-veiled plea for donations, it's not – my users are already donating as much as they can, and I would not willingly ask for more from them; but if any company was willing to offer a small annual sponsorship for the programs, I would love to talk to them about that to see if there is some mutually beneficial deal we could make. With all of this fiasco now hopefully behind me, I can finally return to the work that has been stalled by it. Expect to see new releases of both programs very soon – a consolidation release in the case of WinPMail, and a feature release with DKIM support and all the work I've done to get my hosting going again in the case of Mercury. That's about it for now - watch out for the next progress update at the start of July. All my best to you, Cheers! -- David -- [ Page modified 1 Jun 2025 | Content ? David Harris |
