[Pimmy] Version 4.0 beta 1a - mail/news/rss

[Angelo Donatiello]

Hello everybody.

It's a pleasure to announce the first beta of Pimmy 4.0, available in
English and Italian on our web site www.geminisoft.com.

Non-English speaking users may download this beta and configure Pimmy to
use two language files, so that Pimmy will use English only for new menus
and sentences. Please refer to the manual for details.

Before installing this version, please carefully read the "What's new"
chapter of manual, available online too, and in particular the paragraph
"Migrating from Pimmy 3.5".

This beta test version will expire on April 30, 2005, when a new beta will
be available. By the way you can go back to Pimmy 3.5 in any moment without
loosing your settings.

Pimmy 4.0 will be a commercial product: selling terms have not been
determined yet but the price will be affordable by everyone. We would like
to thank who in the past contributed to our donation program, a few people
that of course will receive a free license for the final release.

We also thank who have contributed to improve Pimmy, and we are sure to
have responded in these years with a better product. We hope you would like
to prefer us for the near future too.

Ok, after the "commercial" matters, these are the news features of Pimmy
4.0.

- Individual read / unread messages management with bold font for unread
messages.
- IMAP4 protocol support.
- Faster folders management.
- Cache management (local copy) for mailboxes and newsgroups to be able to
view the list of messages already downloaded or displayed.
- RSS / ATOM channels support for news reading and blogs.
- Messages import from Outlook Express, Thunderbird and other mail
programs.
- Some changes to user interface.

We look forward to receiving remarks and suggestions from you.

Thank you very much. Bye.

-angelo & antonio-
www.geminisoft.com

 

[jo]

This beta test version will expire on April 30, 2005, when a new beta will
be available. By the way you can go back to Pimmy 3.5 in any moment without
loosing your settings.

Pimmy 4.0 will be a commercial product:

Seems Pimmy is going off topic :-(

 

[jason]

Seems Pimmy is going off topic :-(

Bah!

 

[burnr]

Hello everybody.

It's a pleasure to announce the first beta of Pimmy 4.0, available in
English and Italian on our web site www.geminisoft.com.

This beta test version will expire on April 30, 2005, when a new beta
will be available. By the way you can go back to Pimmy 3.5 in any
moment without loosing your settings.

Pimmy 4.0 will be a commercial product: selling terms have not been
determined yet but the price will be affordable by everyone.
We look forward to receiving remarks and suggestions from you.

Thank you very much. Bye.

-angelo & antonio-
www.geminisoft.com

The freeware version is a very nice app. Will you continue to provide a
download of 3.5 and the language files?

 

[Jeff Needle]

Seems Pimmy is going off topic :-(

I was going to download this. Now I won't bother.

 

[Alan Connor]

Hello everybody.

It's a pleasure to announce the first beta of Pimmy
4.0, available in English and Italian on our web site
www.geminisoft.com.

Pimmy 4.0 will be a commercial product: selling terms have
not been determined yet but the price will be affordable by
everyone.

Is it open-source?

<snip>

AC

 

[Angelo Donatiello]

Is it open-source?

No, it isn't.

Bye,

 

[Henry The Mole]

Hello, Angelo!
You wrote on Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:58:08 +0100:

Pimmy 4.0 will be a commercial product: selling terms have not been
determined yet but the price will be affordable by everyone.

Speravo proprio che questo gioiellino rimanesse freeware, non tanto per
l'esborso (che per un programma valido è comunque giustificabile) quanto per
il principio.

Mi auguro di poter avere il vostro permesso per continuare a mantenere
l'attuale versione gratuita sul mio sito web.

Un saluto.

 

[Angelo Donatiello]

Mi auguro di poter avere il vostro permesso per continuare a mantenere
l'attuale versione gratuita sul mio sito web.

Nessun problema.

Ciao, grazie.

 

[Angelo Donatiello]

The freeware version is a very nice app.

Pimmy 4.0 comes from the freeware version... so I think it is nice too

Will you continue to provide a
download of 3.5 and the language files?

Not yet decided. At the moment we continue distributing and supporting
Pimmy 3.5 until final Pimmy 4.0 will be available. Then we will decide how
to proceed.

Bye,

 

[Alan Connor]

Alan Connor <[email protected]> wrote:

<from his original post and my response to it: Angelo Donatiello
wrote:>

Hello everybody.

It's a pleasure to announce the first beta of Pimmy
4.0, available in English and Italian on our web site
www.geminisoft.com.

No, it isn't.

Bye,

So it costs money and isn't open source.

Guarantee I can find software to do the same job, as well
or better, that is both free and opensource.

Bye.

AC

 

[Angelo Donatiello]

So it costs money and isn't open source.

Guarantee I can find software to do the same job, as well
or better, that is both free and opensource.

I am sure you can at present and this is not a problem for us.

Bye

 

[Alan Connor]

I am sure you can at present and this is not a problem for us.

The amount of free and opensource software available is
staggering, and there is more everyday.

To say that this is not a problem for you is either disengenuous
or you are an idiot.

If everyone who had software to sell advertised on the Usenet,
there wouldn't be room for anything else.

Certain newsgroups are devoted to commercial activity, this
one, comp.mail.misc, isn't. Most of them aren't. Their charters
indicate whether such posts are permitted. If the subject isn't
mentioned, they aren't.

We don't sell software here, we give it away.

And give _free_ advice on using and configuring and
trouble-shooting mail tools of all sorts.

AC

Bye

Where have I heard that before.

 

[2poor]

Cousin Henry The Mole wrote:

Translated for the Italiano-impaired.

Hello, Angelo!

What up, Dog?

You wrote on Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:58:08 +0100:


Speravo proprio che questo gioiellino rimanesse freeware, non tanto
per l'esborso (che per un programma valido è comunque giustificabile)
quanto per il principio.

I hoped just that this gioiellino remained to freeware, not as well as for
the expenditure (than for a valid program how much for the principle is
however justifiable).

Mi auguro di poter avere il vostro permesso per continuare a mantenere
l'attuale versione gratuita sul mio sito web.

I augur myself of being able to have your permission in order to continue
to maintain puts into effect it them free version on my situated one web.

Un saluto.

A salute.

 

[Angelo Donatiello]

To say that this is not a problem for you is either disengenuous
or you are an idiot.

ok ok, dont' become too nervous, it is not necessary.

If everyone who had software to sell advertised on the Usenet,
there wouldn't be room for anything else.

Pimmy has always been announced on these newsgroups, so to reach all of our
users we have thought to post a message here. In addition, to be clear from
the first beta, we have stated that Pimmy is going to become a commercial
product. It was not mandatory because all the betas will be "free", but we
thought it was better to say it asap.

It's not our intention to use these newsgroups to advertise our activities,
in fact we won't post more messages.

Your opinion is appreciable, but you should appreciate our clearness and
honesty too.

That's all.

 

[Mark]

Sure sounds like the decision has already been made.

 

[NetworkElf]

To say that this is not a problem for you is either disengenuous
or you are an idiot.

Anyone else just have a stong vision of a bird pecking at it's reflection
in a window pane?

I'd write more, but my black pots and kettles just escaped confinement and I
must go round them up again.

 

[The name with no man]

I bet you've got the biggest and best nob too

 

[bassbag]

Hello everybody.

It's a pleasure to announce the first beta of Pimmy 4.0, available in
English and Italian on our web site www.geminisoft.com.

Non-English speaking users may download this beta and configure Pimmy to
use two language files, so that Pimmy will use English only for new menus
and sentences. Please refer to the manual for details.

Before installing this version, please carefully read the "What's new"
chapter of manual, available online too, and in particular the paragraph
"Migrating from Pimmy 3.5".

This beta test version will expire on April 30, 2005, when a new beta will
be available. By the way you can go back to Pimmy 3.5 in any moment without
loosing your settings.

Pimmy 4.0 will be a commercial product: selling terms have not been
determined yet but the price will be affordable by everyone. We would like
to thank who in the past contributed to our donation program, a few people
that of course will receive a free license for the final release.

We also thank who have contributed to improve Pimmy, and we are sure to
have responded in these years with a better product. We hope you would like
to prefer us for the near future too.

Ok, after the "commercial" matters, these are the news features of Pimmy
4.0.

- Individual read / unread messages management with bold font for unread
messages.
- IMAP4 protocol support.
- Faster folders management.
- Cache management (local copy) for mailboxes and newsgroups to be able to
view the list of messages already downloaded or displayed.
- RSS / ATOM channels support for news reading and blogs.
- Messages import from Outlook Express, Thunderbird and other mail
programs.
- Some changes to user interface.

We look forward to receiving remarks and suggestions from you.

Thank you very much. Bye.

-angelo & antonio-
www.geminisoft.com

Good luck in your commercial venture.I used pimmy for many years , and
have always recieved instant support via email whenever there was a
problem (which there rarly was).I for one will be trying v4.I hope there
will be an evalution period , though ,as i did have problems with pimmy
and other software i was running at one time.
me

 

[Angelo Donatiello]

Good luck in your commercial venture.I used pimmy for many years , and
have always recieved instant support via email whenever there was a
problem (which there rarly was).I for one will be trying v4.I hope there
will be an evalution period , though ,as i did have problems with pimmy
and other software i was running at one time.

Thank you for your message.

About evaluation period, beta 1 expires on april 30 2005. Final release
should have classical evaluation period of 30 days, to let people try all
features and test in in their daily situation before buying.