What is SeaMonkey?
SeaMonkey is an open-source email client provided by Mozilla Foundation. It can be launched on Windows, Mac, and Linux OS. It contains a browser, an email and newsgroup, IRC Chat, HTML editor, and web development tools.
More Info. About Spicebird
- Spicebird uses MBOX file format to store emails and other items.
- This MBOX format is used by multiple email applications like Thunderbird, Eudora, The Bat, Pocomail, and many others.
History and Technical Information
Mozilla Foundation declared it will not come up with any official versions of Mozilla Suite beyond 1.7 but the foundation emphasized that it will provide infrastructure to community members to continue the development. Then, it is decided that now SeaMonkey council continues its development instead of Mozilla foundation. It is also decided that its new name would be SeaMonkey.
SeaMonkey's first version was released in January 2006. Now, find the technical information about SeaMonkey below –
- Developer – SeaMonkey Council
- Licensed – Open source
- Software type – Complete Internet suite, news client and E-mail
- First release – January 30, 2006
- Language support – 26 languages across the world
- Latest release – 14 March, 2016 version 2.40
- Platform supported – Windows, Linux, and OS X
Protocols used by Mozilla SeaMonkey
SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol for sending emails.
POP3 – Post Office Protocol for receiving messages.
Location of folder and profiles in SeaMonkey
SeaMonkey stores the profile and folder in different locations on Windows, Mac, and Linux OS.
In Windows OS
- For Windows XP and 2000 –C:\Documents and Settings\Windows login user name\Application Data\Mozilla\SeaMonkey\
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For Windows 7, 8, 10, etc. – Users\
\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\SeaMonkey
In Mac OS
~/Library/Application Support/SeaMonkey
In Linux and UNIX systems
~/.mozilla/SeaMonkey
File Formats supported by Mozilla SeaMonkey
Email folders of SeaMonkey are stored in .mbox file extension and address book contacts in .mab file extension. Other file extensions are also used by SeaMonkey –
- .MAR – Mozilla Archive
- .EML – Single Email Message
- .MSF – Mail Summary File
- .MAFF – Mozilla Archive File format
- .XBL – Extensible Binding Language file
- .XUL – XML User Interface Language file
- .RDF – Resource Description Framework File
Features of SeaMonkey
Features of SeaMonkey Suite –
Browser
- With tabbed browsing, you don’t need to open one page at a time. In one click, several pages can be opened at once.
- Also, Undo closed tab or window will help you come to the page where you were working, which was close mistakenly.
- SeaMonkey’s Add-ons Management provides lots of possibilities to extend your internet experience. You can easily develop your own extensions and provide them to SeaMonkey community.
- Unique Data Manager serves as a central management interface for all kinds of site – specific data, cookies, passwords, preferences, etc.
- Unique Data Manager serves as a central management interface for all kinds of site – specific data, cookies, passwords, preferences, etc.
- Lightweight themes
- Safe mode helps you to solve your problems e.g. incompatible add-ins.
- Popup blocker to surf web without interruptions from ads.
Mail & Newsgroup
- Tabbed Mail will help you to manage your emails and folders.
- Junk Mail controls protect your emails from spammers.
- Manage your emails on single interface with multiple accounts
- It includes enterprise-ready features such as S/MIME, address books, LDAP support, digital signing, etc.
Composer
- HTML editor keeps getting better with image and table resizing, instant insert and delete of table cells. Composer is all you need for your documents and website projects.
IRC Chat
Chat on IRC networks is powerful. Multiple networks and channels are easy to keep track of in a familiar interface.
You can change the look of the chat with motifs, inbuilt, downloaded, or by creating your own.
IRC Chat
JavaScript Debugger helps you to debug JavaScript code on your websites. SeaMonkey has a suite of various debugging tools.
Conclusion
The article described what is Mozilla SeaMonkey, its key features, history, file location, file formats used to store the database, and much more.
