Netscape Mail & Newsgroups

This article is about the original Netscape Messenger and Collabra programs. For the formerly upcoming new release, see Netscape Messenger 9.
Netscape Mail and Newsgroups

Netscape Mail 7
Developer(s) Netscape
Initial release 4.5 (October 1998)
Last release 7.2 (August 17, 2004) [±]
Preview release n/a [±]
Written in ?
Operating system Cross-platform
Available in English
Type E-mail and news client
Website browser.netscape.com

Netscape Mail and Newsgroups, commonly known as just Netscape Mail, was an email and news client produced by Netscape Communications Corporation as part of the Netscape series of suites between versions 4.5 to 7.2. It was previously two separate programs known as Netscape Messenger and Netscape Collabra between Netscape Communicator 4 and 4.5.

Features

Netscape Mail & Newsgroups features support for relevant protocols such as IMAP, POP3 and SMTP, a built-in Bayesian spam filter, support for multiple accounts, etc.

Initially its development was overseen in-house, but following AOL's purchase of Netscape in 1998, its codebase development was handed over to the Mozilla Foundation, originally initiated by Netscape, and therefore became based upon the Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups component of the open-source Mozilla Application Suite. Mozilla ceased development of the suite between 2004 and 2006 in favour of stand-alone applications, and as a consequence Netscape's series of suites were also discontinued. In 2005, Netscape released Netscape Browser 8, based upon Mozilla Firefox, which did not include an email client, therefore the latest version inclusive of a mail client, version 7.2, became unsupported.

The development of Mozilla Mail and Newsgroups has now been continued as SeaMonkey Mail and Newsgroups.

Re-generation

Main article: Netscape Messenger 9

In 2007, after the release of stand-alone browser Netscape Navigator 9, Netscape confirmed that it would once again develop an e-mail client, now named Netscape Messenger 9. The new release was to be based upon Mozilla Mail's successor, Mozilla Thunderbird.[1]

Additionally, after an official poll posted on Netscape's community support board in late 2006, speculation arose of the Netscape 7 series of suites (including the Mail client) being fully supported and updated by Netscape's in-house development team once more, including major bug fixes and security issues.[2][3][4]

However, development of Netscape Messenger (and any speculation of an update of Netscape 7) was ended when AOL announced they would end development and support of Netscape Navigator and Netscape Messenger.[5] Support ended on March 1, 2008.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Netscape Mercury/Messenger 9 in progress Retrieved on 2007-06-11
  2. ↑ Netscape Community Announcement - Netscape 7.2 Retrieved on 2007-02-08
  3. ↑ Netscape Community poll - Should Netscape continue to update 7.2? Retrieved on 2007-02-08
  4. ↑ Mozillazine - Netscape 9 announced Retrieved on 2007-02-08
  5. ↑

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