On 11/09/2014 09:29 PM, GenealogyPro wrote:
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.
And those are?
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.
I did not know there was an email client packaged in the Chrome and
Internet Explorer browsers. There is a Yahoo browser?
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.
Who are they and what are their programs?
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.
After all that I don't think anyone knows what it is you want to do. How
did you "hack" Netscape?
SeaMonkey and Thunderbird
<https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all.html> are excellent email
applications that run on Windows, Mac and Linux.
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