Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups (also referred to as Mozilla Mail/News or simply Mozilla Mail) was an

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and

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that was part of the

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. Mozilla Mail & Newsgroups featured e.g. support for relevant protocols such as

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and

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, a built-in

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, support for multiple accounts, etc. The feature set was mostly comparable with that of the stand-alone alternative,

Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source email client that also functions as a personal information manager with a Digital calendar, calendar and contactbook, as well as an RSS feed reader, chat client (IRC/XMPP/Matrix (protocol), Matrix), ...

. This was because the two applications shared the same codebase for most things except the

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. Mozilla Application Suite has been superseded by

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and the email and news client is now SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups. A re-packaged version of Mozilla Mail and Newsgroups was also included in

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versions 6 and 7, known as

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, and also appears in

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External links

Mozilla Suite homepage

Mozilla Mail/News
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