BrianH Posted April 12, 2004 Share Posted April 12, 2004 Use it? Used to use it? I won't even ask if nobody got skills with this.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdj Posted April 13, 2004 Share Posted April 13, 2004 I use it and have for years because it's the standard at work and can run on both a PC and Unix. I don't claim to be particularly knowledgeable about it though Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Posted April 13, 2004 Share Posted April 13, 2004 It's a good solid mail client. No bells and whistles like Outlook, but not very many of the viruses either. It's integrated very well with the Netscape browser and if you used both instead of Outlook and IE you would be less likely to get bit by Outlook and IE specific intrusions. Netscape also has pop-up blocking which alone is worth the change from IE. All in all, a good piece of software. Doesn't generate "Explorer has generated errors" notices like another browser I know does. If you have a high speed connection, Go Here & Get It -- Regards, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reneet Posted April 13, 2004 Share Posted April 13, 2004 HAve used it for years at work and home and prefer it infinitely over Outlook and Eudora. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianH Posted April 13, 2004 Author Share Posted April 13, 2004 I was wondering if anyone had problems with a mail account "hanging". I am using Netscape to access 2 email accounts, suddenly one of them will identify mail on the server, and when I tell it to download the mail it says "downloading 1 of whatever" and just hangs there. I was just wondering if anyone ever had this or a similar problem, or could possibly point me in a direction. Server settings seem fine....I think this all started with the friggin DSL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reneet Posted April 13, 2004 Share Posted April 13, 2004 No problems here but I'm using one of the older versions. Had a few problems with one of the newer ones ... 6.? so quit using it. I'm currently using 4.7 I believe for e-mail only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincent Posted April 13, 2004 Share Posted April 13, 2004 I've used Netscape and now Mozilla for email for almost 10 years. Now I use Mozilla the open source code base used for Netscape. You may want to try a Mozilla build as they are usually more up to date than the Netscape builds. The current production version is Mozilla 1.6. http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/ I have had the problem you described be caused by a very large message in the mailbox. It appears to hang but it is actually trying to download the large message. This is usually a problem over dial-up not DSL. What version of Netscape are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdj Posted April 13, 2004 Share Posted April 13, 2004 Try monitoring Network and CPU usage (Task Manager will do this if you are using a recent Windows, something like top if you are on Linux) and see if it's active, busy idel or idle hung. My first guess would be that there's a message that is big enough to hit some limit somewhere in the chain and you're not being told about it, and it's causing something to hang or retry. Does this happen consitently at a specific point or truely randomly? Kevin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianH Posted April 13, 2004 Author Share Posted April 13, 2004 Ver. 7.1 Happens every time, only one email server (the other works fine), I can SEND mail through it, but receiving mail (no matter how big or small) will just sit there and try to process it indefinitely. I like the integration with Netscape, which I started using cuz I began having security issues with Xplorer and those mail programs. But I may try something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianH Posted April 13, 2004 Author Share Posted April 13, 2004 Now I can't even SEND mail! Something really got hosed somewhere! Outlook Express does the same thing. It says it's downloading messages but just sits there. It's the friggin GoDaddy server. I need to get my tech down here and straighten this all out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgnoyes Posted April 14, 2004 Share Posted April 14, 2004 If your ISP offers a web-based method of looking at your email (a lot of them do: Comcast, Bell South, Earthlink), go look and see if there's anything out there in your inbox of huge size. That way you can determine if you really want it and, if not, whack it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianH Posted April 14, 2004 Author Share Posted April 14, 2004 Looks like the Godaddy mail server is fvukt up. That's what's not allowing outgoing mail. The incomimg mail prob was a corrupt header on one of my messages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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