Turnpike is a software suite for Microsoft Windows, originally written by Chris Hall and Richard Clayton. The suite, which comprises an email client and a news client, was acquired by Demon Internet in 1995 and supplied to their customers free of charge. It also has a small following of non-Demon users. Its advocates claim it to be it more straightforward to use and less buggy than the equivalent Microsoft product. The current version is version 6.06, and further major revision is unlikely. Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... Demon Internet is a British Internet Service Provider. ...

The suite comprises two principal components, Connect, which interfaces with the modem driver or LAN, and Turnpike, which controls, sorts and displays mail and email. Prior to version 5 the Turnpike component was a stand-alone executable, from version 6 onwards it is implemented as a Windows Shell namespace extension. Mail filtering can be done using Unix-like regular expressions. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Special Folders. ... In computing, a regular expression is a string that is used to describe or match a set of strings, according to certain syntax rules. ...

Versions 4 and beyond were 32-bit, and early versions of 5 included PGP. PGP is a computer program which provides cryptographic privacy and authentication. ...

Although no Linux versions were produced, all work satisfactorily under packages such as Win4Lin and VMware. Versions up to and including 5 also work quite well under Wine, but the display in Turnpike 6 is Windows Explorer based and has proved less easy to use in this way. Linux (IPA pronunciation: ) is a Unix-like computer operating system family. ... Win4Lin is a software application for Linux which allows a user to run a copy of Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000 or XP applications on their desktop. ... VMware Inc. ... It has been suggested that WineTools, Wine-Doors, and WineXS be merged into this article or section. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Windows Shell. ...

There is an active support newsgroup: demon.ip.support turnpike. In spite of its name, this is not restricted to Demon customers; it is made available to all news servers that wish to take it, and can also be found on Google groups. Google Groups is a free groups and mailing list service from Google. ...