<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"/> <title>Cone mail client</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="manpage.css" type="text/css"/> <link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Cone: COnsole Newsreader And Emailer"/> <link rel="up" href="index.html" title="Cone: COnsole Newsreader And Emailer"/> <link rel="prev" href="FAQ.html" title="FAQ"/> <link rel="next" href="cone01folderlist.html" title="Folder Listing"/> <link xmlns="" rel="icon" href="icon.gif" type="image/gif"/> <meta xmlns="" name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"/> <!-- Copyright 2002 - 2007 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information. --> </head> <body> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="center" rowspan="1"><span class="application">Cone</span> mail client</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <a accesskey="p" href="FAQ.html" shape="rect">Prev</a> </td> <th width="60%" align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">  </th> <td width="20%" align="right" rowspan="1" colspan="1">  <a accesskey="n" href="cone01folderlist.html" shape="rect">Next</a></td> </tr> </table> <hr/> </div> <div class="part" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h1 class="title"><a id="cone00index" shape="rect" name="cone00index"> </a><span class="application">Cone</span> mail client</h1> </div> </div> </div> <div class="partintro" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div> <div> <div> <h1 class="title"><a id="id512028" shape="rect" name="id512028"> </a>Introduction</h1> </div> </div> </div> <p><span class="application">Cone</span> is a screen-oriented E-mail/News reader and writer. If you are reading this documentation from within <span class="application">Cone</span>, you are actually reading the simplified HTML version of <span class="application">Cone</span>'s documentation that's formatted as a folder of E-mail messages. Each online tutorial chapter appears as a separate message. Use <span class="keycap"><strong>PgUp</strong></span> and <span class="keycap"><strong>PgDn</strong></span> to read each chapter. Press <span class="keycap"><strong>N</strong></span> and <span class="keycap"><strong>P</strong></span> to move to the next/previous chapter.</p> <p>Pressing <span class="keycap"><strong>Q</strong></span> on most screens exits <span class="application">Cone</span>. <span class="application">Cone</span> tries to gracefully log out and shut down all server connections. If <span class="application">Cone</span> cannot log out of a remote server because the remote server is down, press <span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>C</strong></span> (after <span class="keycap"><strong>Q</strong></span> to terminate <span class="application">Cone</span>).</p> <p>Use <span class="keycap"><strong>CTRL</strong></span>-<span class="keycap"><strong>Z</strong></span> to temporarily suspend <span class="application">Cone</span> and drop back to the shell prompt. <span class="application">Cone</span> remains suspended in the background, and may be restarted by using the shell's <span class="command"><strong>fg</strong></span> command.</p> <div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"> <h3 class="title">Note</h3> <p>Connections to remote mail servers may be disconnected for inactivity if <span class="application">Cone</span> remains suspended for a prolonged period of time. When suspended, <span class="application">Cone</span> cannot maintain any active connections to remote mail servers.</p> </div> <p>It might be more convenient to browse the full HTML documentation using your favorite web browser, at <a class="ulink" href="http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/cone00index.html" target="_top" shape="rect">http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/cone00index.html</a>. When <span class="application">Cone</span> starts for the first time, it automatically creates a fake mail account called “<span class="quote">Online Tutorial</span>”. This fake mail account contains a stripped-down HTML version of the online documentation, which you are reading now. The terminal display must be at least 80 characters wide in order to be able to read “<span class="quote">Online Tutorial</span>”.</p> <p>The “<span class="quote">Online Tutorial</span>” mail account can always be removed, but it might be convenient to keep it around for a quick consultation, from time to time, even though the full HTML version is a bit easier on the eyes.</p> <div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h4 class="title"><a id="id512493" shape="rect" name="id512493"> </a>Overview</h4> </div> </div> </div> <p><span class="application">Cone</span> is a powerful, yet simple, text-based mail reader. <span class="application">Cone</span> seamlessly handles multiple mail accounts simultaneously. <span class="application">Cone</span> is capable of using the following kinds of mail accounts:</p> <div class="itemizedlist"> <ul type="disc"> <li> <p>Local mail folders, or maildirs.</p> </li> <li> <p>Remote POP3 and IMAP mail server accounts.</p> </li> <li> <p>A simple newsgroup reader. <span class="application">Cone</span> doesn't have sophisticated features found in dedicated newsreaders, and may be a bit slow and memory hungry when reading large Usenet newsgroups. However, <span class="application">Cone</span> will prove to be an excellent, fast, reader of internal local newsgroups, accessible via a remote login.</p> </li> <li> <p>Experimental SMAP mail server accounts.</p> </li> </ul> </div> <p><span class="application">Cone</span> contains an experimental implementation of a new remote mail access protocol, “<span class="quote">SMAP</span>”. At this time, SMAP is implemented by the <a class="ulink" href="http://www.courier-mta.org" target="_top" shape="rect">Courier-IMAP</a> server. SMAP offers several improvements over traditional IMAP-based mail accounts, namely:</p> <div class="itemizedlist"> <ul type="disc"> <li> <p>Names of SMAP folders may use the full UTF-8 character set. Most IMAP servers restrict certain characters from appearing in names of folders, due to their special meaning in the IMAP folder hierarchy.</p> </li> <li> <p>Faster downloading of binary attachments. SMAP requires approximately 25% less bandwidth to download binary attachments.</p> </li> <li> <p>Consolidated mail transmission. IMAP clients usually need to transmit a message twice, when mailing it. An IMAP client must first save the message in the IMAP server's “<span class="quote">Sent Mail</span>” folder. Afterwards, the IMAP client needs to send a second copy of the message, using SMTP, in order to deliver it to the listed recipients. When using SMAP, <span class="application">Cone</span> transmits the message only one time; the server saves it to the “<span class="quote">Sent Mail</span>” folder, then mails it to its designated recipients.</p> <p>Of course, <span class="application">Cone</span> is fully capable of using traditional SMTP, or running the local <span class="command"><strong>sendmail</strong></span> command.</p> </li> </ul> </div> <p>Other features of <span class="application">Cone</span>:</p> <div class="itemizedlist"> <ul type="disc"> <li> <p>Full SSL/TLS support with IMAP, POP3, NNTP, SMTP, and SMAP. SASL CRAM-MD5/CRAM-SHA1 authentication (except for NNTP).</p> </li> <li> <p>Built-in editor for creating messages.</p> </li> <li> <p>Full UTF-8 support (requires the wide-character version of the <span class="application">Curses</span> library).</p> </li> <li> <p>Spell checker.</p> </li> <li> <p>Local and remote (IMAP or SMAP-based) addressbooks.</p> </li> <li> <p>Remote configuration (share a common configuration between different instances of <span class="application">Cone</span>).</p> </li> <li> <p><span class="application">Cone</span> tries to automatically customize itself to user's preferences, without requiring explicit configuration. <span class="application">Cone</span> remembers the sorting order of each opened folder's index. When a folder is reopened, <span class="application">Cone</span> sorts the folder using the same sort order used when the folder was opened last. Similarly, <span class="application">Cone</span> memorizes user-configured mail headers. <code class="literal">From:</code>, and several other, mail headers are freely editable, and default to their contents the last time a new message was sent by replying to a message in the folder, or which was created while that folder was opened. A “<span class="quote">power user</span>” can easily use multiple mail accounts with <span class="application">Cone</span>, and <span class="application">Cone</span> will select the appropriate mail headers when replying to messages from each mail account.</p> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="navfooter"> <hr/> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <a accesskey="p" href="FAQ.html" shape="rect">Prev</a> </td> <td width="20%" align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1">  </td> <td width="40%" align="right" rowspan="1" colspan="1">  <a accesskey="n" href="cone01folderlist.html" shape="rect">Next</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">FAQ </td> <td width="20%" align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <a accesskey="h" href="index.html" shape="rect">Home</a> | <a accesskey="t" href="bk01-toc.html" shape="rect">ToC</a></td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> Folder Listing</td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>