If this is going to be the thread of official defections, you can increment the count by one. I began a "test" of openSUSE 11.3 Linux in July after a problem with Windows XP looked fixable only by a full system reinstall, and I basically haven't been back in Windows since.

I'm using Kontact/Kmail now, and while there's some polish I miss from pocomail, there's also some nice modern features - and an actual announced development timeline, and actual development!

While Pocomail runs fine in Linux using the WINE windows libraries, I think I'm going to finish porting all of my old messages over and pull the plug on Poco and Windows together.
It's rather a shame. I'm assuming this Slavin person has another job from whence his income derives so he has no motivation to worry about Poco - or salaries to pay. I used to be part of a company with only two full-time employees, and went as far in the time before affordable cell phones to install a tech support line in my home (due to customers being on the other side of the continent it was not unusual for them to have questions at 8PM my time), carry a beeper, and even not take vacation for eight years in case I was away and one of our customers had a problem! The folks behind Poco might be great developers, but they're poor business people. At this point I wouldn't use a product from Poco systems no matter how good it was due to the clear way they treat their exceedingly loyal (and patient) customers.
"From the correspondence I had with him in the past few months, I understand that Pocomail will continue being supported and developed, no sign of the opposite."
Development doesn't count unless something's actually released. If not, there's no functional difference between "in development" and "discontinued". Duke Nukem Forever was "in development" for 10+ years, but that didn't mean anything to the fans who never got a finished game.
I was the sole developer using the same tool past versions of Pocomail were written with (Delphi) while also providing all the technical support and doing analysis work for clients, and it certainly didn't take years to produce software that was used in Fortune 1000 companies. If Poco Systems couldn't deliver in a timely fashion, the business decision to bring on extra help or engage outside contractors or Delphi developers to assist with parts of the development should have been made. Delphi is a rapid application development platform and numerous third-party components exist for all sorts of functions (Poco's existing HTML engine is actually a third-party component and not written by Poco, for instance). There can't be even one developer working on it 4+ hours a day for over a year with nothing to show for it. There have been 13 Twitter posts over the past few days, coming from a Mac, no less.

There's no excuse in the world for not posting information here or in an e-mail to existing users. He's busy? Fine. Then simply don't go home/to bed until it's done. Present and past employees of small businesses know what it's like to pull an all-nighter and get to bed at 5AM in order to meet a deadline.
Here's a hint to remaining users/faithful: when a thread about the current status of a product includes the line "In December 2009 I did have contact with Slaven, so that does mean something, I think", it's safe to consider your product discontinued. When Waldo has been spotted more recently than your developer, you know you're in trouble.

As it is, my previous e-mail program was the ahead-of-its-time MailCat, and I finally had to concede that support for it was pretty much dead and it was time to look for a new program when its fix for the year 2000 bug didn't appear until February 2000.

It was no fun sending e-mails for two months that were dated in the year 1900.
MonBidoux, there are some current and many former (like me) Delphi developers who would love a crack at PocoMail's code. It could blow the leading open source Thunderbird out of the water. I tried Thunderbird and was quite disappointed to observe that it couldn't even minimize to system tray without a third-party plugin.
To everyone else, good luck with Pocomail still doing whatever you need it to do, and when it reaches the point that it can't, finding a viable replacement. It was quite a piece of software, and ranks on my top five programs of all time for its combination of extreme power and customizability. I hope to see y'all in 2019 as we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the last Pocomail update!
