SillyDog701

[advantagein]

Hi

Netscape email has advantages over other programs but it also has some problems and it would be good if they were overcome. This would encourage many more people to use the software and it should be in the interest of its makers. Please let me know if the newer version of Netscape does overcome any of these 9 problems below. If there are any solutions please let me know how to do it. Currently I am using Netscape® Communicator 4.78 and Windows 2000.

The problems are:

1. When you copy text from a Netscape email window and paste it into other programs such as Microsoft Word there
are line breaks
in unwanted places and if the font size is changed, the text is often like this sentence.

2. If text from Microsoft Word with different colors or fonts is pasted into Netscape those colors or fonts are lost.

3. I cannot view the recipients in the Templates or Drafts folder like I can in the Sent folder. Instead there is a column listing the sender which is a wasted column because it only contains my name for every message.

4. If someone did not reply and you copy or move a message from the Sent folder into the Templates folder often the text changes and the different format means the resent message will have unwanted line breaks in it.

5. I cannot see a setting in the program so every message sent also has a spare copy saved in the templates folder so the message can be easily resent if needed.

6. To my knowledge a number of messages cannot be all automatically sent at about the one time by highlighting several messages in the drafts or templates folder. To send the messages each one has to be opened individually and the send button clicked.

7. Like all other email programs I know there is no known fast, simple way to determine which people have not personally replied to emails you send. I do not mean autoresponers that do not indicate if the person has read and responded to your email. It would be handy if the messages in the sent folder were automatically marked when someone replies and if they did not reply the message could be easily resent. It would be good if there was a setting that enabled you to automatically resend messages that were not replied to after a certain time.

8. It is easy to accidentally send the same message to the same person twice either very soon after sending the initial one or after they have replied. It would be good if there was a setting to warn you if you sent the same message to the same address before.

9. If you import from Netscape into other email programs the replied and flag markings are lost.

Your help will be appreciated
Regards Richard.

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[Antony]

Hello Richard,

Suggestion for your question 1 and 2.
I suggest you use Paste Special then select "Unformatted Text".

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[Antony]

1. When you copy text from a Netscape email window and paste it into other programs such as Microsoft Word there
are line breaks
in unwanted places and if the font size is changed, the text is often like this sentence.

Sometimes, the line breaks are generated by senders. Their emailer automatically create line breaks for them (by default).

In Netscape Messenger, View | (untick) Wrap Long Lines

Otherwise nothing more you can do if the "line break" were there (created by sender).

3. I cannot view the recipients in the Templates or Drafts folder like I can in the Sent folder. Instead there is a column listing the sender which is a wasted column because it only contains my name for every message.

Work around:
Create sub-folders under the Sent. And move your sent emails to those sub-folders under Sent.

4. If someone did not reply and you copy or move a message from the Sent folder into the Templates folder often the text changes and the different format means the resent message will have unwanted line breaks in it.

Go to Edit | (on the left pane) Mail & Newsgroups | Messages | (on the right pane) change the “Wrap outgoing, plain text message at xx charactersâ€

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[mfrenchaga]

One more improvement I would like to see is that the file names of any attachments are automatically listed on the print out of an email (sent or received). This used to be the case with Netscape Communicator 4* but has not worked since Netscape 6. I would like to see it reinstated in any future release and have requested this in the past with no success.

The lack of this feature means that it is not clear from a printed email whether there was an attachment and if so, what it was, unless the sender lists the details in the body of the email. This is a considerable disadvantage in business use where we file printed emails and need this information for our records.

Otherwise I agree Netscape 7 has many advantages over other email clients, not least the junk mail controls which save a great deal of time.

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[advantagein]

Hi Antony

Thanks for your answer. I have Netscape® Communicator 4.78 and I could not find Paste Special on it. I could find paste special on Microsoft Word but still it pasted the line breaks in unwanted places when pasting from Netscape email to Microsoft Word. I am referring to emails that I drafted and not emails that other people sent me. What about pasting from Microsoft Word to Netscape? Is there any way to preserve fonts and colors?

In your answer to question 4, I tried what you said which was “Wrap outgoing, plain text message at xx characters” to a very big number (OR you can try 0)”. But it made no difference. It would not let me use 0 and it needed a number greater than 0 so I tried 1.

Do you think what you said would work on a later version of Netscape?

Do you know anyone else who knows a way around the problems I listed or if they will be overcome in future versions?

Your help will be appreciated
Regards Richard.

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[Fulvio]

future versions?

I don't know of any plans for future version. Not for NS4.x. Even 7.x is questionable. You are working with an already obsolete program.

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[advantagein]

Hi

Thanks for your letter.

Can the current or later versions do any of the 9 things I listed.

Your help is appreciated
Regards Richard.

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[Antony]

[quote="advantagein"]In your answer to question 4, I tried what you said which was “Wrap outgoing, plain text message at xx charactersâ€

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[oldjack]

1. When you copy text from a Netscape email window and paste it into other programs such as Microsoft Word there
are line breaks
in unwanted places and if the font size is changed, the text is often like this sentence.

I don't know whether this would be of interest to you, but there is free software called NoteTab Light (a Notepad replacement & HTML editor) that will remove line breaks from any text. I have to use text from many different sources which sometimes has line breaks that I don't want. I paste the text into NoteTab Light, select "Join Lines" from the "Modify" drop-down, then paste the modified text wherever I need it to go.

It's at http://www.notetab.com/
Remember to choose NoteTab Light, which is the free version.

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[advantagein]

Hi

Thanks for your answers.

However, I could not find a "Send Later" folder in my Netscape communicator. I did click on a send later button but it saved the message in the “Unsent Messagesâ€

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[Antony]

[quote="advantagein"]I did click on a send later button but it saved the message in the “Unsent Messagesâ€

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[advantagein]

Hi

Thanks for your answer.

Most people do not reply and I have had recent problems with email transmission. Therefore lately I have been saving the important messages I send in the Template folder so I can resend them later if I receive no reply. Every so often I go through the messages and determine which ones were not replied to and then I resend them. It takes a while to do them individually so it would be good if there was a way I could send them automatically in one go such as by moving them to the “Unsent Messages” folder. But it seems as though this cannot be done unless there is a way around it by going into Windows Explorer and going to C:\Program Files\Netscape\Users\webmaster\Mail then copy the Templates and Templates.snm files into a blank folder, then rename the Templates file to Unsent Messages and the Templates.snm file to Unsent Messages.snm . Then I could copy these files into the Mail folder to replace the “Unsent Messages” folders. Would that be possible?

Another advantage of the “Unsent Messages” folder is it lists the recipients in a column. The Templates folder does not do this. Do any newer versions enable you to view the recipients in a column of the templates folder instead of the sender?

Your help is appreciated
Regards Richard.

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[Antony]

Most people do not reply and I have had recent problems with email transmission. Therefore lately I have been saving the important messages I send in the Template folder so I can resend them later if I receive no reply.

Well, there are other issues.
People don't read all emails, sometimes they don't bother replying, and sometimes people filter out your emails. Sometimes, they just don't use that email account anymore.

[quote="advantagein"]Every so often I go through the messages and determine which ones were not replied to and then I resend them. It takes a while to do them individually so it would be good if there was a way I could send them automatically in one go such as by moving them to the “Unsent Messagesâ€

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