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See COPYING for distribution information. --> </head> <body> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="center" rowspan="1">Folder Index</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <a accesskey="p" href="cone01folderlist.html" shape="rect">Prev</a> </td> <th width="60%" align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <span class="application">Cone</span> mail client</th> <td width="20%" align="right" rowspan="1" colspan="1">  <a accesskey="n" href="cone03messageview.html" shape="rect">Next</a></td> </tr> </table> <hr/> </div> <div class="chapter" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h2 class="title"><a id="cone02folderindex" shape="rect" name="cone02folderindex"> </a>Folder Index</h2> </div> </div> </div> <p>Highlighting a folder on the folder listing screen and pressing <span class="keycap"><strong>ENTER</strong></span> shows an index of messages in the folder. <span class="application">Cone</span> shows the following information for each message:</p> <div class="itemizedlist"> <ul type="disc"> <li> <p>The message number, starting from 1 and counting upwards. New messages (unread messages), are prefixed with by “<span class="quote"><code class="literal">N</code></span>”. Messages marked for deletion are prefixed by “<span class="quote"><code class="literal">D</code></span>”. On some terminals, new messages are prefixed by a little diamond symbol, and messages are marked for deletion by a crosscheck symbol. Messages that have been replied to are prefixed by “<span class="quote"><code class="literal">R</code></span>”.</p> <p><span class="application">Cone</span> can process groups of messages at once (for example: deleting or moving a group of messages to another folder). This is done by “<span class="quote">flagging</span>” each message, individually, then executing the command. Each flagged message is marked with an asterisk, “<span class="quote"><code class="literal">*</code></span>”. On some displays, flagged messages are identified by a checkmark symbol, instead of the asterisk.</p> </li> <li> <p>The date or time when the message was sent or received. Only the date is shown for messages sent or received over a week ago. More recent messages have their day and time shown.</p> </li> <li> <p>The sender's or recipient's name. Messages sent to multiple people have only the first recipient shown.</p> </li> <li> <p>The approximate size of the message.</p> </li> <li> <p>The message's subject. There's not a lot of room to show the message's subject; <span class="application">Cone</span> shows as much of a subject as possible.</p> <p>Messages that belong to a watched thread, or a subthread, have the “<span class="quote"><code class="literal">≡</code></span>” “<span class="quote"><code class="literal">•</code></span>” character shown, in reverse colors, in front of the message's subject. Terminals that cannot display these symbols will use the “<span class="quote">o</span>” and “<span class="quote">*</span>” characters instead. See <a class="link" href="cone02folderindex.html#watch" title="Watching Threads" shape="rect">“<span class="quote">Watching Threads</span>”</a>, below, for more information.</p> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="id517304" shape="rect" name="id517304"> </a>Folder Index Screen</h4> </div> </div> </div> <hr /><pre class="programlisting" xml:space="preserve"> <B> New Mail: 7 messages CONE </B> 1 29-Jul-2002 Jack Jones (2 Kb) IMAP server bug 2 08-Aug-2002 easyDNS Support (3 Kb) [easyDNS] New security featu 3 25-Feb-2003 Sam Smith (3 Kb) news.pl 4 05-Mar-2003 Bill Black (4 Kb) Re: IMAP server bug 5 27-Mar-2003 Bill@example.com (3 Kb) Suggested changes to README N 6 Mon 06:39 PM Joseph_Brown@computer (54 Kb) Re: your request for a copy N 7 Wed 10:55 AM Dr. Gary Green (2 Kb) Spec file for release 1.7.1, <B> New Mail: 7 messages </B> ; Search B Blind Fwd D Delete J Jump To $ Sort folder C Copy F Fwd ^O mOre </pre><hr /> <p>The highlighted message on this screen designates the current message. Move the cursor using the cursor up/down keys, <span class="keycap"><strong>PgUp</strong></span>, and <span class="keycap"><strong>PgDn</strong></span>. The cursor left/right keys move the cursor to the previous/next flagged message. After running a search with the <span class="keycap"><strong>;</strong></span> command (see below), use the cursor left/right keys to locate the messages found by the search.</p> <p><span class="keycap"><strong>L</strong></span> or the <span class="keycap"><strong><</strong></span> returns to the folder listing screen, or use the following keys:</p> <div class="variablelist"> <dl> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>ENTER</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>Display the current message.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>;</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>Search messages, flag them, then do something to all flagged messages, at once. Additional options will be shown to enter the search criteria, described below.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>$</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>Change the order the messages are shown on this screen. Initially, the messages are shown in the order they were added to the folder. Use this option to set the available sorting order: <span class="keycap"><strong>A</strong></span> - in the order they were added to the folder (default); <span class="keycap"><strong>D</strong></span> - order by each message's sent date; <span class="keycap"><strong>N</strong></span> - order messages by sender's (or the recipient's) name; <span class="keycap"><strong>S</strong></span> - order messages by their subject; <span class="keycap"><strong>T</strong></span> - order messages by threads.</p> <p>The threaded view works best on UTF-8 consoles. It is also not very well suited for machines with limited resources. Computing a threaded view is expensive, and the threaded view needs to be recomputed whenever messages are added or removed from the folder. Machines with limited resources should use a subject-based sort, which is much faster, and gives similar results.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>A</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>Watch replies to this message, or stop watching replies to this message. See <a class="link" href="cone02folderindex.html#watch" title="Watching Threads" shape="rect">“<span class="quote">Watching Threads</span>”</a>, below, for more information.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>B</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>“<span class="quote">Blindly</span>” forward the current message. The message is resent without adding any additional comments, or changing the sender's name. <span class="application">Cone</span> prompt for the recipient's name, or names, and send the messages without changing the message's headers in any way (additional headers may be added by the mail server, of course).</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>C</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>Copy the current message to another folder. <span class="application">Cone</span> temporarily goes back to the folder listing screen. Highlight the destination folder with the cursor and press <span class="keycap"><strong>ENTER</strong></span>.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>D</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>Mark the current message for deletion. The message is not actually deleted. It is marked for deletion by the “<span class="quote">expunge</span>” command.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>F</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>Forwards the current message. <span class="application">Cone</span> opens a screen where a new message may be written. The current message is either saved as an attachment to the new message, or is quoted in the new message's text (<span class="application">Cone</span> prompts to choose one or the other before opening the new message screen).</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>J</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>Jump elsewhere in this folder. Scrolling through a large folder may be a tedious process. This option prompts for a message number, and moves the cursor to that message, scrolling the display, if necessary.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>L</strong></span>, or <span class="keycap"><strong><</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>This option closes the folder index screen, and returns to the folder listing screen.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>M</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>Pressing <span class="keycap"><strong>M</strong></span> closes this screen, and opens the “<span class="quote">Main Menu</span>” screen.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>O</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>Move the current message to another folder. This is similar to the “<span class="quote">Copy</span>” command, except that the message is removed from the current folder after it's succesfully copied to the destination folder.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>R</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>This option creates a reply to the current message. <span class="application">Cone</span> may ask a few questions before creating a reply. <span class="application">Cone</span> knows how to format replies in three different ways. Not every format reply is available with every message. No questions are asked when only one reply format is possible for the message. <span class="application">Cone</span> asks when more than one reply format is available.</p> <p>Proper selection of a reply format is only possible when the main menu's setup screen is initialized with all applicable E-mail addresses. The available reply formats are:</p> <div class="variablelist"> <dl> <dt><span class="term">Reply to a mailing list</span></dt> <dd> <p>If one or more of the recipients of the original message are mailing list addresses, the reply is addressed to the mailing list addresses only, ignoring any sender or carbon-copy addresses.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term">Reply to all</span></dt> <dd> <p>If the message is addressed to or from more than one address, excluding the user's address, the reply is addressed to all original senders and recipients, except for the user's address.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term">Reply</span></dt> <dd> <p>The reply is addressed to the sending party.</p> </dd> </dl> </div> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>S</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>Many mailing lists have “<span class="quote">[subject]</span>” automatically inserted into the subject line of all mailing list messages. Press “<span class="quote">S</span>” to hide/show the so-called “<span class="quote">blobs</span>” from the subject line of messages shown on the folder index screen. The subject line has limited display real estate, and removing the [blob] allows more of the meaningful subject to be viewed on this screen.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>SPACE</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>The space bar is an alternative way to flag or flag individual messages without using the <span class="keycap"><strong>;</strong></span> command. <span class="keycap"><strong>SPACE</strong></span> flags or unflags the current message. It is still necessary to use <span class="keycap"><strong>;</strong></span> in order to actually do something to all flagged messages.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>T</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p><span class="keycap"><strong>T</strong></span> opens a submenu where a message may be “<span class="quote">tagged</span>”. Tagged messages are shown with a different background color. This is merely a visual aid for highlighting selected messages, and nothing more. A color-capable display is necessary for showing tagged messages.</p> <p>The submenu lists nine available tags, selected by pressing a digit <span class="keycap"><strong>1</strong></span> through <span class="keycap"><strong>9</strong></span>. <span class="keycap"><strong>0</strong></span> removes the existing tag on the current message. The colors for the tags are selected from those available on the current display. Some tags will share the same color if the current display has less than nine available colors, in addition to the default text color.</p> <p>The names of each tag may be set by choosing the “<span class="quote">Setup</span>” selection from <span class="application">Cone</span>'s main menu. The default names of the first five tags are the same as message labels used by the Mozilla mail client. With most IMAP servers <span class="application">Cone</span> and Mozilla will see each other's tagged/labeled messages (however <span class="application">Cone</span>'s colors are determined by the console's color palette, and may not necessary match the ones Mozilla uses for the same label). This requires additional IMAP server functionality that may not be implemented by some IMAP servers.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>U</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>The opposite of the <span class="keycap"><strong>D</strong></span> command - removes the deleted mark from the current message.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>V</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>This command opens the screen with a list of attachments to the current message. This is the “<span class="quote">View Attachment</span>” screen. It is a very simple screen: each attachment is listed, giving its MIME type (the type of the attachment), its approximate size, and the attachments's description, if provided.</p> <p>Plain text attachments may be viewed individually, by pressing <span class="keycap"><strong>ENTER</strong></span>. Press <span class="keycap"><strong>S</strong></span> to download and save the highlighted attachment. Use <span class="keycap"><strong>I</strong></span> to return to the folder index screen, <span class="keycap"><strong>L</strong></span> to return to the folder listing screen, and <span class="keycap"><strong>M</strong></span> to go back to the main menu screen.</p> <p>After downloading an attachment it may be optionally deleted, or removed from the message. Press <span class="keycap"><strong>D</strong></span> to delete the highlighted attachment. Pressing <span class="keycap"><strong>D</strong></span> does not delete the attachment immediately, it only marks the attachment for deletion. More than one attachment may be marked for deletion at the same time. Press <span class="keycap"><strong>X</strong></span> to permanently remove all attachments that are marked for deletion. Beforing pressing <span class="keycap"><strong>X</strong></span>, a marked attachment can be unmarked by pressing <span class="keycap"><strong>U</strong></span>. Once <span class="keycap"><strong>X</strong></span> is pressed all the deleted attachments are gone for good, and cannot be undeleted.</p> <div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"> <h3 class="title">Note</h3> <p>Only messages in local mail folders, IMAP folders, and POP3 maildrop folders may have their attachments removed. Messages in POP3 folders and NetNews folders cannot have their attachments removed.</p> </div> <p>When <span class="application">GnuPG</span> is installed, highlighting an attachment that contains GPG/PGP keys and pressing <span class="keycap"><strong>ENTER</strong></span> imports the keys. <span class="application">Cone</span> prompts for a confirmation, then runs <span class="application">GnuPG</span> to import the attached keys. Some versions of <span class="application">Gnu</span> require a special procedure for importing private keys. <span class="application">Cone</span>'s prompt has an explicit private key export option. With other versions of <span class="application">GnuPG</span> this option doesn't matter. Selecting the default import option will import whatever keys were attached, public or private.</p> <p>When running in an X-terminal, highlighting an image attachment and pressing <span class="keycap"><strong>ENTER</strong></span> displays the image in a separate window. This is done by running either Gnome's <span class="application">eog</span>, or KDE's <span class="application">kview</span> image viewer. <span class="application">Cone</span>'s manual page contains instructions for installing hooks for viewing other kinds of attachments, or using a different image viewer.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>W</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>Pressing <span class="keycap"><strong>W</strong></span> opens the “<span class="quote">Write Message</span>” screen. This is the screen where a new message can be typed, and sent. <span class="application">Cone</span> checks for any unfinished messages in the Draft folder, before opening this screen. If the Draft folder contains any messages, <span class="application">Cone</span> offers an option to resume writing an unfinished message, instead of starting a new message. <span class="application">Cone</span> automatically saves a backup copy of the current message being edited, at regular intervals, so that a backup copy can be recovered in the event that <span class="application">Cone</span> is interrupted, or terminated, in a middle of editing a new message. If a backup copy exists, <span class="application">Cone</span> announces the existence of an interrupted message, and prompts to resume writing the interrupted message. An interrupted message must be opened and either: sent, explicitly cancelled, or saved in the Draft folder; before another message can be written.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>X</strong></span></span></dt> <dd> <p>This is the “<span class="quote">Expunge</span>” command. All messages marked for deletion are permanently removed from the folder.</p> </dd> </dl> </div> <div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h5 class="title"><a id="id518424" shape="rect" name="id518424"> </a>Searching messages</h5> </div> </div> </div> <p>Pressing <span class="keycap"><strong>;</strong></span> on the folder index screen brings up an extensive sequence of options to enter a criteria that's used to search messages. After the search criteria is specified, messages that meet the search criteria are shown as flagged (highlighted, and preceded by a “<span class="quote"><code class="literal">*</code></span>” or a checkmark). Messages that meet the search criteria can be quickly located by pressing the cursor left/right keys, which move the cursor to the previous or the next flagged message.</p> <p>Requesting a search when some messages are already flagged shows an additional prompt:</p> <div class="variablelist"> <dl> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>B</strong></span> - Broaden search</span></dt> <dd> <p>Searches the remaining messages that are not already flagged. Any messages that meet the search criteria are also flagged. Existing messages that are already flagged remain flagged. The final result is that messages which meet both the new search criteria and the previous search criteria(s) are flagged.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>N</strong></span> - Narrow search</span></dt> <dd> <p>Searches only messages that are already flagged. Flagged messages that meet the search criteria remain flagged. Messages that don't are unflagged.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>C</strong></span> - Copy flagged</span></dt> <dd> <p>Copy flagged messages to another folder. <span class="application">Cone</span> temporarily goes back to the folder listing screen. Highlight the destination folder with the cursor and press <span class="keycap"><strong>ENTER</strong></span>.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>D</strong></span> - Delete selected</span></dt> <dd> <p>No more searching is done. All flagged messages are marked as deleted (but not actually removed, use the e<span class="keycap"><strong>X</strong></span> command to do that).</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>O</strong></span> - Move flagged</span></dt> <dd> <p>Moves flagged messages to another folder. This is similar to the “<span class="quote">Copy</span>” command, except that the messages are removed from the current folder after they're succesfully copied to the destination folder.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>R</strong></span> - Reset selected</span></dt> <dd> <p>No more searching is done. All flagged messages are unflagged.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>U</strong></span> - Undelete selected</span></dt> <dd> <p>No more searching is done. All flagged messages that are marked as deleted have the deleted mark removed.</p> </dd> </dl> </div> <div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h6 class="title"><a id="id519077" shape="rect" name="id519077"> </a>Search criteria</h6> </div> </div> </div> <div class="variablelist"> <dl> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>A</strong></span> - select all</span></dt> <dd> <p>Press <span class="keycap"><strong>A</strong></span> to select all available messages.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>!</strong></span> - not</span></dt> <dd> <p>Press <span class="keycap"><strong>!</strong></span> to logically reverse the following search criteria. Thus, if the entered search criteria was “<span class="quote">Search the <code class="literal">From</code> header for <code class="literal">troll@example.com</code></span>” the actual search will find messages where the <code class="literal">From</code> header does <span class="emphasis"><em>NOT</em></span> contain this text.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>D</strong></span> - search by date</span></dt> <dd> <p>A date-related search. Additional prompts follow, described below.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>S</strong></span> - search by status</span></dt> <dd> <p>A status-related search. Each message has several status flags that define whether the message is a new message, a deleted message, a replied message, and so on. Selecting a status search shows three options: “<span class="quote">Deleted</span>”, “<span class="quote">Unread</span>”, and “<span class="quote">Replied</span>”, to search for all deleted, unread, or replied messages, respectively.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>T</strong></span> - search by text</span></dt> <dd> <p>A text-based search, search for messages that contain (or don't contain) a given text string. Additional prompts follow, that further refine what kind of text to search for.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>Z</strong></span> - search by size</span></dt> <dd> <p>Search for messages that are bigger or smaller than a certain size. Select “<span class="quote">Larger than</span>” or “<span class="quote">Smaller than</span>” at the next prompt, then enter the target message size, in bytes, and press <span class="keycap"><strong>ENTER</strong></span> to search.</p> </dd> </dl> </div> <div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h6 class="title"><a id="id519222" shape="rect" name="id519222"> </a>Date-based searches</h6> </div> </div> </div> <p>A date-based search brings up additional prompts that specify the nature of the search. There are two dates that are associated with every message: the “<span class="quote">sent</span>” date, when the message was sent; and the “<span class="quote">received</span>” date, when the message was received.</p> <p>The sent date is obtained from the message's <code class="literal">Date:</code> header. The received date is obtained from the mail server (or from the timestamp on the local mailbox).</p> <p>The first prompt enters which date is searched for:</p> <div class="orderedlist"> <ol type="1"> <li> <p>Messages that were sent before the given date.</p> </li> <li> <p>Messages that were the sent on the given date.</p> </li> <li> <p>Messages that were the sent since (on, or after) the given date.</p> </li> <li> <p>Messages that were received before the given date.</p> </li> <li> <p>Messages that were the received on the given date.</p> </li> <li> <p>Messages that were the received since (on, or after) the given date.</p> </li> </ol> </div> <p>The actual date is entered interactively. It starts with today's date. Press <span class="keycap"><strong>+</strong></span> or <span class="keycap"><strong>-</strong></span> to advance the shown date to the next or the following date. Press <span class="keycap"><strong>[</strong></span> or <span class="keycap"><strong>]</strong></span> to advance the shown date by a month. Press <span class="keycap"><strong><</strong></span> or <span class="keycap"><strong>></strong></span> to advance the shown date by a month. Press the space bar to accept the shown date, and search for messages.</p> <div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"> <h3 class="title">Note</h3> <p>Date-based searches are not currently implemented for NetNews newsgroups.</p> </div> </div> <div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h6 class="title"><a id="id519337" shape="rect" name="id519337"> </a>Text-based searches</h6> </div> </div> </div> <p>Selecting a text-based search shows a wealth of options:</p> <div class="variablelist"> <dl> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>S</strong></span> - subject</span></dt> <dd> <p>Search the contents of the <code class="literal">Subject:</code> header.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>F</strong></span> - from</span></dt> <dd> <p>Search the contents of the <code class="literal">From:</code> header.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>T</strong></span> - to</span></dt> <dd> <p>Search the contents of the <code class="literal">To:</code> header.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>C</strong></span> - cc</span></dt> <dd> <p>Search the contents of the <code class="literal">Cc:</code> header.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>B</strong></span> - bcc</span></dt> <dd> <p>Search the contents of the <code class="literal">Bcc:</code> header.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>H</strong></span> - specific header</span></dt> <dd> <p>Searches for the given text in some other header. The next prompt asks for the header's name.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>O</strong></span> - contents</span></dt> <dd> <p>Search the contents of the message for the given text.</p> </dd> <dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>A</strong></span> - anywhere</span></dt> <dd> <p>Search the given text anywhere - headers or contents.</p> </dd> </dl> </div> <p>Enter the text to search for after selecting one of these options, and press <span class="keycap"><strong>ENTER</strong></span> to perform the search.</p> <div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"> <h3 class="title">Note</h3> <p>Efficient searching is implemented for local mail, and IMAP/SMAP mailboxes only. NetNews servers' searching capabilities are very limited, and POP3 servers have no search facilities whatsoever. In all cases, searching for message status flags is supported, since message status flags are always cached locally.</p> <p>Only message headers of NetNews folders may be searched, and only English characters can be used as a search string. Some older NetNews servers may not have any searching ability whatsoever. Searching of message contents is not supported. Searching by message size, or message's date is not supported either.</p> <p>Searching of POP3 folders is also not very efficient, although the search text is not limited to English characters only. POP3 folder search is accomplished by downloading the complete headers of each message, and searching it manually. Downloaded headers are not cached. The headers are also downloaded when searching by message's date. Searching by message size, or message's date is not supported for POP3 folders.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h5 class="title"><a id="watch" shape="rect" name="watch"> </a>Watching Threads</h5> </div> </div> </div> <p>Pressing <span class="keycap"><strong>A</strong></span> displays the following prompt: “<span class="quote">Watch thread up to <em class="replaceable"><code>A</code></em> days, <em class="replaceable"><code>B</code></em>-deep replies? (Y/N).</span>” The initial values for <em class="replaceable"><code>A</code></em> and <em class="replaceable"><code>B</code></em> are taken from the setup screen. Press <span class="keycap"><strong>D</strong></span> or <span class="keycap"><strong>R</strong></span> to adjust the defaults, if desired.</p> <p>Answering the prompt with <span class="keycap"><strong>Y</strong></span> will “<span class="quote">watch</span>” the currently highlighted message, and any new replies to it. The highlighted message's subject will be shown with a highly-visible “<span class="quote"><code class="literal">≡</code></span>” character (or the “<span class="quote">o</span>” character on some terminals). New replies to the watched message will also be automatically marked in the same fashion.</p> <div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"> <h3 class="title">Note</h3> <p>Any existing replies to the watched message are not automatically marked. Only future replies to the message will be automatically marked for watching.</p> </div> <p>Thread-watching is mostly useful with large NetNews newsgroups. A single, watched, conversation thread can be easily identified even in a very active newsgroup; however thread-watching can also be used with regular mail folders (with some limitations as noted below).</p> <p>NetNews threads are famous for quickly diverging off-topic, so <span class="application">Cone</span>'s thread-watching future quietly turns itself off, after a while. There's very little uses in continuing to monitor a thread that began talking about the merits of organic food, but then ended up becoming a heated discussion about psychological problems of the Hollywood elite.</p> <p>The initial default settings will watch for replies for up to fourteen days, or five levels of follow-ups, whichever comes first. That meaning that a reply to a reply to a reply to a reply to a reply of a watched message will still be shown as part of a watched thread, but its own reply will not be. There is no limit on the number of watched replies to the initial message, or to any of the five subsequent levels of follow-ups, as long as they arrive within the time-enforced limit.</p> <div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"> <h3 class="title">Note</h3> <p>After coming back from a 15-day vacation, and opening a folder which used to have watched threads, none of the new messages will be marked for watching, even though they arrived before the 14-days were up. Well, you just had a nice 15-day vacation, why do you care about some stale flame war that started more than two weeks ago?</p> </div> <p>The last level of watched followups will be marked with a different character, a “<span class="quote"><code class="literal">•</code></span>” (or “<span class="quote"><code class="literal">*</code></span>” as shown by some terminals), instead of the “<span class="quote"><code class="literal">≡</code></span>” character. This is a visual cue to evaluate whether this subthread is still worth following. If so, the message can be manually re-watched. Highlighting the message and choosing this option will “<span class="quote">renew</span>” the interest in this thread for another round of followups (however other branches of the original thread will still expire as usual, unless they are also renewed).</p> <p>Selecting this option again on a message that's already being watched will prompt to turn off watching for more replies. The message will no longer appear watched, and any future replies to the message will not be watched.</p> <div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"> <h3 class="title">Note</h3> <p>Any existing replies that are watched will continue to be watched, even though the original message is no longer being watched.</p> </div> <div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h6 class="title"><a id="id519993" shape="rect" name="id519993"> </a>Watching E-mail threads</h6> </div> </div> </div> <p>Thread watching is designed primarily to be used with NetNews newsgroups. The mechanism by which replies are selected for watching is quick, and simple. NetNews messages typically carry robust threading metadata, and even if there's a NetNews hiccup, and messages come in out of order, all eligible replies should still be correctly selected for watching. There is a very small chance that a very severe NetNews disruption will result in a failure to catch watched replies. However, messages would probably come in so wildly out of sequence that the thread is not likely to remain readable even if all watched replies were properly tagged, whenever they arrive.</p> <p>Thread watching is not limited to NetNews newsgroups. E-mail threads may also be selected for watching. However, E-mail messages tend to have far less threading metadata than their NetNews counterparts. A disruption in incoming E-mail is more likely to result in missed replies, than a NetNews disruption. However, E-mail disruptions, on average, tend to occur far less often than NetNews disruptions, so everything tends to come out even.</p> <p>Additionally, many modern E-mail clients now include the same full threading metadata as NetNews clients (<span class="application">Cone</span> always includes complete threading metadata with every outgoing message, NetNews or E-mail). This issue continues to be less and less relevant, as time goes on.</p> </div> </div> <div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h5 class="title"><a id="id520027" shape="rect" name="id520027"> </a>Checking for new mail</h5> </div> </div> </div> <p>The semantics of checking for new mail varies slightly, depending on the mail account. With SMAP-based mail account, and with most IMAP mail accounts, new mail in the current folder is shown immediately. If messages in the folder are shown in the order they were added to the folder, new mail will naturally appear at the end of folder. If messages are shown in a different sorting order, new messages will be shown wherever they should appear in accordance with the current sort order. Most IMAP mail accounts show new mail as soon as it is received. Some IMAP mail accounts do not report new mail immediately after it is delivered to the mail folder (this depends on the IMAP server software). <span class="application">Cone</span> checks for new mail at regular intervals, and new received messages will show up after the next check for new mail.</p> <p>New mail delivered to a local mbox folder will usually be shown when <span class="application">Cone</span> checks for new mail, at regularly-scheduled intervals. New mail delivered to a local maildir will also usually appear only after <span class="application">Cone</span> checks for new mail. On most Linux and SGI systems, and on any other system that has the File Access Monitor daemon running, new mail will be reported immediately.</p> <p>In all cases, move to the last message in the folder, and use the cursor down key to have <span class="application">Cone</span> explicitly checks for new mail. New mail in a POP3 folder will only be shown after an explicit new mail check (<span class="application">Cone</span> does not check for new mail in POP3 folders by itself).</p> <p>In all cases, new mail will not be immediately shown after the folder index screen is closed. When the folder index screen is closed, the mail folder still remains “<span class="quote">opened</span>” until <span class="application">Cone</span> opens another folder in the same mail account. <span class="application">Cone</span> still regularly checks for new mail when the folder index screen is not being shown (except for POP3 accounts). New mail will be reported only when <span class="application">Cone</span> checks for new mail, or when the folder index screen is reopened.</p> </div> <div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h5 class="title"><a id="id520108" shape="rect" name="id520108"> </a>Concurrent changes to the current folder's contents</h5> </div> </div> </div> <p>Most mail accounts allow the same folder to be opened by multiple applications. When <span class="application">Cone</span> has a folder opened, another application might also have the same folder opened, and another application may be making changes to the folder, at the same time.</p> <p>Generally speaking, new mail delivered to the folder, while it's opened by <span class="application">Cone</span>, is one example of concurrent changes to the contents of the folder while it is opened. Other applications may make other kinds of changes to the folder's contents: changing a message's status (whether the message is unread, deleted, replied, tagged, and/or flagged); or removing a message from the folder. In general, changes by other applications are reported in the same manner that <span class="application">Cone</span> reports new mail. If <span class="application">Cone</span> reports new mail as soon as it is received, <span class="application">Cone</span> will also report other kinds of changes to the folder's contents as soon as they occur. Otherwise, changes to the folder's contents are reported the next time <span class="application">Cone</span> checks for new mail. 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