Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : cone Version : 0.69 Upstream Author : Mr. Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://www.courier-mta.org/cone/ * License : GPL Description : COnsole Newsreader and Emailer (a GPL'ed pine clone)
According to http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/28/1519247 cone is modeled after the well-known but not-so-free MUA pine and therefore could fit into Debian as a GPL'ed pine replacement. According to its web page it shares a lot of libraries with the Courier MTA and is written by the same people. It's pico-clone is named leaf (Lightweight Editor of Ascii Files). Beyond others cone has support for PGP, GPG, UTF-8, IMAP, POP3, incoming HTML mails, external viewers, NNTP, SOCKS 5, SSL/TLS, SASL, LDAP and IMAP based address books, remote storable configuration, multiple accounts (can't remember having seen that in pine), tagging mails with several different flags, and SMAP (Simple Mail Access Protocol, a new IMAP and POP3 replacement developed by the Courier guys and supported by the Courier developement versions). Cone compiles smoothly on Sarge with just "sh configure && make". It looks like pine with some of the known enhancement patches (e.g. it's more colorful, but still not too colorful :-) and works quite intuitively, IMHO even more than pine does. The only thing missing on a first glance is the capability of mutt or pine to connect to an IMAP server by tunneling IMAP over SSH. :-) I really wonder why it isn't in Debian yet, since the Courier MTA seems to be well-elaborated in Debian (at least according to the number of packages it has been split into ;-). Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ | Axel Beckert \ / Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | [EMAIL PROTECTED] X Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News | [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ | http://abe.home.pages.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
