I am not certain how to title this support request because however I do so in other forums, I invariably am recommended the very programs I stipulate, with the reasons why, I had already tried and rejected. I work with multiple PCs and am in need of an email client which will first an foremost, run on each of them, regardless of OS. I have been using Netscape 4.61 because, first I bought the program on CD so am not dependent on the download being where I can find it, and second, it continues to allow me to drag and drop the program and its associated files not just between computers, but even operating systems without the necessity of having to reconfigure the program, but roughly two years ago, my ISP made changes to its web-mail client that prevent my being able to send email composed in Netscape, though I can still download. I had similar problems even with downloading, but with the assistance of the support staff at my ISP, I was able to make the necessary configuration changes, but not this time. Every email client, including those packaged with Chrome, Yahoo and Internet Explorer, I have tested as a replacement for Netscape 4.61, will not allow me to drag and drop the the files. As a result, I am forced to update files on a back-up wholesale rather than only those that have actually changed. That task is made more difficult because the programs insist that my data files be not just in a directory which is a subdirectory of a subdirectory of a subdirectory of a....., but that hierarchy is also a subdirectory of Program Files. With Netscape, I have been able, regardless of the operating system, to have a directory at the root with Netscape as one of the subdirectories, and other subdirectories for an editing program, a professional search engine I use and my browser. Further, I dislike their "insistence" that I use "their" programs for importing and exporting of graphics, audio, text and other types of files, because began working with other programs well before their versions, and in some instances the data files of my programs are not compatible with those programs, so I have chosen, to the extent the same has been possible, to disable the integration. I have taken to composing my messages in my web-mail client, but the problems there, among others, are: 1)I cannot use if "off-line"; 2)its does not recognize mail composition as being active use, so will go into a sleep mode, which disables the auto-save function while allowing me to continue to compose a mail, the result being that portions of the message are lost; 3)I also can lose significant portions of messages when my browser freezes on me, which is one reason why I am looking at SeaMonkey over all other programs, as I want nothing to do with Internet Explorer, Chrome, Yahoo or Safari, and like that it has a similar pedigree to my current browser, Opera (which has moved away from many of the aspects that differentiated it from Internet Explorer).; and 4)having to have my browser open to use the web-client is a resource hog. I am not a programmer, but to the extent I have been able to "hack" Netscape in the manner I have, it strikes me as possible to "hack" SeaMonkey, which claims Netscape as its "ancestor", perhaps simply by adding so coding in the Windows registry, but I clearly need assistance to do so, as I do not know where that code would need to be added or what that code might be.
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