Netscape Tips, Tricks and Secrets

If you have an IMAP account, then I'm sure you appreciate how you can access it from anywhere and always see the latest mails. But what if you'll be without net access? Here's how to take your emails with you in Mozilla or Netscape nevertheless.

Send and receive encrypted and signed emails comfortably with Netscape and Mozilla.

Build your Netscape address book with ease and two clicks by adding the senders of incoming mails instantly.

You don't have to sit and wait for Netscape 4 to download large messages.

Let Netscape or Mozilla save you bandwidth and download time by telling it not to fetch large emails automatically.

Access mailboxes fast from your Netscape bookmarks.

Share your priorities with the recipients of your emails written in Netscape 4.

Set the right priorities in Netscape and Mozilla: change the priority level of the emails you send easily.

Only open the Netscape 4 email component when you do have new messages (which you know because Netscape is checking in the background and announces new mail using an icon).

Stop hitting the "Get Msgs" button. Netscape or Mozilla can do that for you, automatically and comfortably.

For a fast way to have Netscape or Mozilla fetch new mail in all your accounts, try this keyboard shortcut.

Don't let not using the Netscape or Mozilla spell checker be your biggest mistake.

Okay, okay you won't type faster; but you'll start typing a new message faster in Netscape or Mozilla with this tip.

Compose a message to an entry in your Netscape or Mozilla address book easily.

Deliver mail to a group of people easily with Netscape or Mozilla by setting up a simple, but useful mailing list.

Tweak all hidden settings in Netscape and Mozilla by editing your personal configuration file.

Change your Netscape and Mozilla message labels to any text and color you like.

Delete consequently with this Netscape and Mozilla keyboard shortcut. It lets you remove messages immediately without putting them in the Trash.

Protect your privacy by preventing email messages from setting personally identifiable cookies in Netscape and Mozilla.

Prevent My Sidebar from obscuring your mailbox view in Netscape or Mozilla.

Even templates can change. Here's how to edit message templates in Netscape and Mozilla.

If your contacts are in Mozilla or Netscape but this is not where they should be, you can save them to a CSV file, which in turn allows you to import the email addresses and other details in another program.

As attachments, the emails you forward with Netscape or Mozilla will be sure to arrive in tip-top shape at the recipient.

Send emails on and on and on and on and... with Netscape.

To the mail, quickly! Here's a smart keyboard shortcut that will bring up (or to the front) your Netscape or Mozilla Mail window immediately.

All your mail deserves highest priority, and that's why I have programmed Netscape (and Mozilla) to assign the highest priority to all emails from you automatically. Here's how you can do the same...

Browse through your new messages fast in Netscape and Mozilla.

See all the important stuff at once in Netscape and Mozilla by grouping flagged messages.

Fancy HTML formatting is nice, but it can also be a risk to privacy and security (and, honestly, some of the fancy formatting isn't worth it anyway). Fortunately, you can make Netscape or Mozilla display emails using plain text only. Here's how.

If spam and good mail are mixed nicely in your Netscape or Mozilla Inbox, you can clear up the display by hiding all the spam with two clicks.

Want to add your fancy "X-Y: Z" header to emails or need to set the "Sender:"? Here's how to add any header to emails you send with Mozilla or Netscape.

Send your message to more than one recipient easily with Netscape.

Only compact folders are good folders. Here's how to compact your mail folders in Netscape or Mozilla and reclaim wasted disk space.

Use a more comfortable and powerful message editor in Netscape, and add inline images, custom fonts and other formatting fancy to your emails.

Setting up a filter for future messages from the same sender is easy in Netscape.

Away with all distractions in my Inbox! Here's how to hide all read mail in a folder in Netscape or Mozilla.

Netscape includes highly effective junk mail filtering. Make sure it's turned on so you can profit from a much cleaner Inbox.

The Templates folder in Netscape is useful, even for message templates!

Two keys to a larger font size when composing a message in Netscape or Mozilla.

Link to anywhere on the Net freely and easily with Netscape or Mozilla.

Make Netscape speak your language (or make Netscape make you speak another language).

Mark messages to-do, personal, important, or whatever you like easily in Netscape and Mozilla.

Read everything (or, at least, make it look like you're read everything) in a Netscape or Mozilla folder with a few key strokes.

See it all on the wide screen in Netscape and Mozilla by maximizing the with of the message preview pane.

Let Netscape keep your Inbox clean by automatically moving incoming mail that's determined to be spam to a special 'Junk' folder.

Here's how to maximize new messages automatically in Netscape or Mozilla.

Send a couple of email messages to the printer easily with Netscape or Mozilla.

Read mail more comfortably by zooming it to a larger font in Netscape or Mozilla.

Do you already know that you can have a webmail account from Netscape? Here's how to get rid of that "FREE WebMail" fake account in Netscape.

Avoid a lot of typing and save a lot of time with email templates in Netscape and Mozilla.

If you're looking for a fast way to search for messages in a folder or folder hierarchy in Netscape/Mozilla, the context menu is a good bet.

Why send only links when you can send the page itself with Netscape or Mozilla?

Send an email to a group of people easily with Netscape or Mozilla.

Make sure you're not confusing older email programs or alienate recipients who don't like HTML messages by sending a plain text only email with Netscape or Mozilla.

Share the good (and the bad) sites with your friends and with ease (and with Netscape) (or with Mozilla).

Don't send huge emails, point to the location of the image on the web instead. Here's how to send your images inline in emails without attaching them with Netscape or Mozilla.

Collect all outgoing Netscape or Mozilla mail in a special folder, move it to your Inbox, or wherever.

Make sure your messages contain only walleyed words in Netscape.

Checking the spelling of a message subject in Netscape or Mozilla? You can't. But you can. Here's how.

How to tell the spell checker in Netscape or Mozilla to leave URLs in emails alone.

Tell Netscape or Mozilla how spam looks like, and what good mail is, and it will detect both reliably.

If you open the Mail component in Netscape or Mozilla, you probably want to read your mail and not some other page. Here's how to turn off the Mail start page.

Get rid of that unnecessary dialog that comes up when you send an email with Netscape or Mozilla by tweaking a hidden setting.

Create the fanciest email messages in Netscape and Mozilla with a simple tool: custom HTML tags.

He dropped me like a contact! Here's how to address messages quickly by drag and drop in Netscape or Mozilla.

Open your Inbox in Mozilla or Netscape and find it pre-classified and organized by smart filtering.

Make Netscape or Mozilla send mail through mail servers that require authentication.

Hey Netscape (hey, Mozilla), show me everything, in plain text.

The latest from Netscape (or Mozilla) Mail: 89203 messages and counting.