# Mail clients:  Netscape8.2 vs. Mozilla 1.1

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mail-clients-netscape8-2-vs-mozilla-1-1/135191>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 4, 2002, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mail-clients-netscape8-2-vs-mozilla-1-1/135191 "2002-11-04T09:00:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![honkytonkwillie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@honkytonkwillie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/honkytonkwillie)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2002, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mail-clients-netscape8-2-vs-mozilla-1-1/135191/1 "2002-11-04T09:00:53Z")

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Why can’t I get Mozilla’s email client to recognize my IMAP account like Netscape does?

Mozilla 1 doesn’t support IMAP mail, but 1.1 does. As a matter of fact, 1.1 upon startup automatically found all of my user profiles from Netscape 6.2 and seamlessly imported bookmarks, email accounts and their settings, and even security preferences - all without prompting. Pretty slick I must say.

But when I try to get new messages on the IMAP account, all I get is a “server not found” error even though the server name, username and port settings are identical.

Ideas anyone?

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**Author:** ![Urban\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Urban\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urban_Ranger)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2002, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mail-clients-netscape8-2-vs-mozilla-1-1/135191/2 "2002-11-04T11:42:45Z")

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Maybe the server was down? Just a thought.