[Bug 14797] Setting up SSL Email access in Pegasus Mail

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14797

--- Comment #33 from Rob Hills  2010-12-12 09:17:36 CST ---
(In reply to comment #31)
> (In reply to comment #30)
> > http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14797

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> When this bug is fixed, it should allow Pegasus Mail to use SSL to send and
> receive e-mails, even those with attachments, HTML e-mail etc.  It could also
> fix any other Windows programs' which use Peter Gutmann's cryptlib via Wine. 
> Then I can award Pegasus Mail a "Platinum" rating in AppDB and suggest to David
> Harris (the creator of Pegasus Mail) that future releases of Pegasus Mail are
> tested in Wine, so the same Windows binary can work in Linux without any extra
> work on his part.

Sadly, I see much bigger problems on the horizon for the upcoming version 5 of
Pegasus Mail.  Looking at David's developer blog at
http://www.pmail.com/devnews.htm, he talks about using Internet Explorer to
render HTML within Pegasus Mail and an "SQL-based backend" to store contacts
and mail data.  While he doesn't say so explicitly I strongly suspect he's
talking about the embedded version of SQL Server that M$ makes available free
these days.

I hope I'm being unnecessarily pessimistic, but it seems to me that the future
of Pegasus Mail and Wine is not looking rosy.