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
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