Netscape Mail Newsgroups
This article is about the original Netscape Messenger and Collabra programs. For the formerly upcoming new release, see. Netscape Mail and NewsgroupsNetscape Mail 7Initial release?(August 17, 2004) ?Englishand news clientWebsiteNetscape Mail and Newsgroups, commonly known as just Netscape Mail, was an and news produced by Netscape Communications Corporation as part of the series of between versions 4.5 to 7.2. It was previously two separate programs known as Netscape Messenger and Netscape Collabra between 4 and 4.5. FeaturesNetscape Mail & Newsgroups features support for relevant protocols such as, and, a built-in Bayesian spam filter, support for multiple accounts, etc.Initially its development was overseen in-house, but following 's purchase of Netscape in 1998, its codebase development was handed over to the, originally initiated by Netscape, and therefore became based upon the component of the open-source. 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, based upon, 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.
Main article:However in 2007 after the release of stand-alone browser, Netscape confirmed that it would once again develop an e-mail client, now named. The new release was to be based upon Mozilla Mail's successor,.Additionally, after an official 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.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. Support ended on March 1, 2008.
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See also. Netscape 7.References.