Mozilla ceased development of the suite between 20 in favour of stand-alone applications, and as a consequence Netscape's series of suites were also discontinued. 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. Released in 1995, it was the first mail reader (or Usenet reader) to support native display of HTML messages. 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. In the 4.x series, it was rewritten as two separate programs known as Netscape Messenger and Netscape Collabra. In the 2.x and 3.x series, it was bundled with the web browser. From appearance options to reading offline messages everything can be configured to some extent from that area of the program.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 2.0 to 7.2.
Insofar as the customization is concerned, Netscape Communicator offers a wide choice of settings which are available from the 'Preferences' menu of the application.
There is a handy quick access toolbar that makes it possible to open the needed module with a single click. Keeping track of contacts can be easily done, thanks to the Address Book component, while keeping in touch with friends is a couple of clicks away, with the Netscape Instant Messenger. Other features like accessing the preferred newsgroups or editing HTML code are also provided by Netscape Communicator and they can be opened from the dedicated menu, regardless of the application in the suite the user is currently working on. Inside the Communicator users can find an e-mail client which provides pretty much all the necessary functions for sending, receiving and managing messages. Nonetheless, the modern standards in HTML and other technologies make the old Netscape included in this suite obsolete. The Navigator is the primary tool and it is equipped with many features for getting useful information from a friendly interface.
Netscape Communicator was one such software solution and its popularity was due to the numerous extra options that came by default in the package. Just as most users these days, a decade or more ago the majority of those who went online looked for an application to help them with more than opening webpages.
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