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E-Mailing and Web Browsing 22
Reading E-Mail with Mozilla Mail
The Mozilla Mail client program is a full-featured mail and newsgroup reader that comes with the
Mozilla suite on many Linux systems. In general, the Mozilla suite is considered an older application,
replaced by Thunderbird and Firefox, the e-mail and Web browser clients, respectively. Thunderbird
and Firefox were split from the large Mozilla suite and each now runs as a separate application. If
you are used to the older Mozilla suite, now called SeaMonkey, you should consider upgrading to
Thunderbird.
In most respects, Mozilla Mail works like Thunderbird, described previously. The only difference
is that Mozilla Mail, because it??™s an older application, won??™t have all the features of the latest
Thunderbird. This is a big change. In the last year or so, Thunderbird has all but replaced
Mozilla Mail.
You can download the Mozilla SeaMonkey suite from www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/.
Working with Text-Based E-Mail Readers
The first text-based mail clients could be configured quite simply. Mail clients such as mutt, mail,
or pine were often run with the user logged in to the computer that was acting as the mail server.
So instead of downloading the messages, using POP3 or IMAP, the mail client would simply open
the mailbox (often under the user??™s name in /var/spool/mail) and begin working with mail.
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