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Cone: COnsole Newsreader And Emailer

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Introduction

   Cone  is  a  text-based  mail client. Cone seamlessly handles multiple
   POP3,  IMAP  accounts,  and  local mail folders. Cone is also a simple
   newsreader.  Cone  is  designed  to  be foolproof enough to be used by
   inexperienced  users,  but  also  offers  advanced  features for power
   users.

Overview

     * An  online  tutorial  provides  a  quick  overview  of Cone's main
       features.
     * A   built-in   text   editor   for   editing  new  messages,  with
       search/replace and spell checking (requires aspell or pspell).
     * Supports  UTF-8  consoles  (requires the wide-character version of
       the curses library).
     * Displays   HTML   mail,  with  automatic  de-moronization  ("smart
       quotes",  and similar clutter, is replaced by plain garden-variety
       punctuation).
     * Displays  attached  images,  if  invoked  from  an  X terminal, by
       running  Gnome's  eog,  or  KDE's kview image viewer. Displays PDF
       attachments   by  running  xpdf.  Other,  or  alternative,  helper
       applications will be added as time permits.
     * Handles  local mail folders, maildirs, IMAP and POP3 accounts, and
       Usenet  newsgroups.  All  folders  are  shown  in  a  hierarchical
       tree-like display.
     * Sends   mail   using   an   external   SMTP  server  (with/without
       authentication), or the local sendmail command.
     * All   network   protocols  support  SSL/TLS  and  SASL  (CRAM-MD5,
       CRAM-SHA1, and LOGIN).
     * Address books (which can be stored in an IMAP folder).
     * Remote   configuration   (share  a  common  configuration  between
       different instances of Cone).
     * An  optional  "single  sign-on".  Use a single master password for
       multiple remote mail server accounts.
     * PGP/GPG  based  encryption,  and digital signatures. Sent messages
       are  automatically  signed. Different signing keys may be selected
       for   different   mail   accounts,  and  the  appropriate  key  is
       automatically selected when replying to a message from an account.
       Selecting  a message for an encryption automatically looks up keys
       that much the recipients' E-mail addresses.
       Import,   export,   forward  and  receive  PGP/GPG  keys  as  MIME
       attachments.
       When  a  single  sign-on  master password is installed, the master
       password also handles access to passphrase-protected keys.
     * Cone  shares  a lot of its code base with the Courier mail server,
       which is why they share the same web site together.
     * Cone   also  serves  as  a  platform  for  development  of  a  new
       experimental  network  mail  access  protocol,  SMAP,  that offers
       additional  functionality  not  available  with IMAP or POP3. When
       Cone  logs  on  to  a  SMAP-capable  server,  such  as the current
       development   version   of  Courier,  additional  features  become
       available:
         1. Folder  names  may  utilize  the  full  UTF-8  character set,
            without  any  reserved folder hierarchy separator characters.
            The  user  does  not  need to be aware of the underlying mail
            folder implementation.
         2. Faster downloading of attachments.
         3. Faster mail sending. SMAP does not require the client to open
            a  second  SMTP  connection,  and  send  a second copy of the
            message via SMTP.
         4. Fast opening of large folders. Cone does not need to download
            the  complete  folder  index every time the folder is opened,
            only  what's changed to the folder since the last time it was
            open.
         5. Many   other   useful   features   that  are  waiting  to  be
            implemented.
     * Cone  owes  its  versatility  in  handling a large variety of mail
       protocols  to  the  fact that it's based on LibMAIL, a generic C++
       library  that  provides  a high-level mail-handling API. Using the
       --with-devel  configuration  setting installs the LibMAIL toolkit,
       which allows for development of independent E-mail software.
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