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).
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Cone is heavily based on Courier's mail libraries; that's why it's brand new home page is http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/index.html, its mailing list is http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-cone, and it uses the same download page.
Although Cone will talk to a plain, garden variety IMAP server, if connected to the Courier IMAP server, build 20030527 or later, it'll automatically use an experimental wire protocol (provided that the corresponding server-side configuration option is explicitly enabled). Cone's primary function is that of a mail client; its secondary function is to serve as a testing platform for advanced mail client/server functionality (in conjunction with the server) that's not possible with IMAP. Specifically:
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. The mail client does not need to open a second SMTP connection, and send a second copy of the message via SMTP, after already sending the message to the server, to be filed in the "Outbox" folder. This is basically the same thing as the optional "Outbox" configuration setting that's been in Courier-IMAP for some time; except that it's done right, and is not a hack.
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. Other similar enhancements are being evaluated for future implementation.
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