Setup Screen
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## Setup Screen

This screen is used to enter various configuration settings. After making any changes on this screen, highlight “SAVE” and press ENTER.

#### Setup Screen

     SETUP                                CONE

            Your E-mail addresses: _____________________________________
                                   [ sam@example.com ]

                                   [ Minimum rich text de-moronization ]

      Your mailing list addresses: _____________________________________
                                   [ announcements@domain.com ]
                                   [ sysadmin@domain.com ]
                                   [ everyone@domain.com ]
                                   [ testers-list@domain.com ]
                                   [ users@domain.com ]
                                   [ reports@domain.com ]
                                   [ webmail@domain.com ]

         Custom sent mail folders:
                                   [ Outbox ]

              Spelling dictionary: _____________________________________

     ^C Cancel
    DEL Delete address/folder

Use this screen to configure the following settings:

Your E-mail addresses

  This is a list of E-mail addresses that are recognized as the user's E-mail addresses. New replies are formatted accordingly. Add an E-mail address by typing it into a field, then pressing ENTER. Highlight an existing address with a cursor, and use DEL to remove it.

Your mailing list addresses

  This is a list of E-mail addresses that are recognized as mailing list addresses. New replies are formatted accordingly. Add an E-mail address by typing it into a field, then pressing ENTER. Highlight an existing address with a cursor, and use DEL to remove it.

Spelling dictionary

  Name of the dictionary used for spell checking. A blank setting uses the default configured system dictionary. Names of available dictionaries is system specific. Different systems will have different dictionaries installed.

Custom sent mail folders

  This is a list of currently-configured folders where copies of sent messages are automatically saved. Highlight an existing folder with a cursor, and use DEL to remove it. Add new folders from the Folder Listing screen.

New custom header

  This advanced option adds a new, editable, vanity or custom header to all new messages. The new header is displayed alongside the standard headers (`From`, `To`, `Subject`, and the rest). Names of vanity headers may only include English letters, digits, and “-”. After entering the header name choose whether the vanity header is always displayed on the “Write Messages” screen, or if it is hidden by default, and only shown with the full set of headers.

Outgoing SMTP server

  This setting specifies the name of the SMTP server used for sending mail. If not specified, Cone uses the local sendmail command.

SMTP SSL certificate (optional)

  This setting enables SMTP authentication using an SSL certificate. This setting appears with a button that reads “Use certificate”. The setting and the button appears only if at least one SSL certificate is already imported (see Certificates). Choosing this button pops up a dialog with a list of available certificates. Selecting a certificate from the list changes this button to read “Remove certificate”, and selecting it again removes the certificate selection. When using certificates, the SMTP userid, below, may be left blank. If provided, and the server does not support authentication using SSL certificates, the traditional userid/password authentication is an automatic fallback.

SMTP userid

  If this setting is provided, Cone will use authenticate via ESMTP with the specified SMTP server.

Do not send SMTP password in clear text

  If this setting is enabled, Cone will only authenticate via ESMTP if encrypted authentication is available. Cone will not authenticate if the SMTP server supports authentication, but only by sending the password in clear text.

Send mail via main acct (if available)

  This setting is only available if the primary mail account -- the first mail account listed on the folder listing screen -- uses the experimental SMAP protocol. If enabled, Cone lets the SMAP server take care of sending the message (which saves time since the message doesn't need to be transmitted a second time, using SMTP, after it is saved in the sent mail folder).

NetNews posting command

  This optional setting specifies a command for posting NetNews messages. If this setting is left empty, NetNews messages are sent directly to the server. This setting allows NetNews messages to be posted via some other mechanism; perhaps a `mail2news` gateway. Cone runs the command and provides the text of the NetNews message on standard input. Example: “sendmail mail2news@example.com” - runs sendmail to mail the message to <mail2news@example.com>.

  ### Note

  If set, all NetNews messages are posted by running this command.

CTRL-Z command

  Specifies the program to run when CTRL-Z (the suspend key) is pressed. If this setting is not empty, pressing CTRL-Z will run the indicated command instead of suspending Cone and going back to the shell prompt.

External Editor (^U)

  Specifies the program to run when CTRL-U is pressed while editing the message. The program receives the name of the temporary file with the message's contents. When the program terminates, the contents of the file are re-read.

  This setting allows any plain text editor to be used for editing messages, instead of Cone's builtin editor.

"Smart" keyboard shortcuts

  If this option is enabled, Cone's built-in editor will automatically replace certain combination of characters with a single character from an extended character set. For example, typing “1/2 ” verbatim (note the trailing space character), inserts the ½ character, instead. Same goes for “1/4 ”, and “3/4 ”.

  Other available shortcuts (depending on the display terminal's capabilities) are:

  - Two apostrophes, or two backticks, are replaced by “smart quotes”.

  - (C), (R), and [tm].

  - +/-, <-, ->, and <-> (replaced by the mathematical +/- character, and various horizontal arrows, respectively).

  - The three character sequence `[space]*[space]` is replaced by the • symbol (a black bullet).

  - Three consecutive periods are replaced by a single “…” character.

  - Two consecutive typed hyphens are replaced by a single “–” (`EN DASH`) character, and three consecutive hyphens are replaced by a single “—” (`EM DASH`) character, when there's a space before and after the dashes. Cone manually displays `EN DASH` as a double-dash, and an `EM DASH` as a triple-dash, even though the terminal console font uses a single-width horizontal line for both. Also, Cone uses a modified Unicode linebreaking algorithm that disallows linebreaks before and after EN or EM dashes. Cone expects EN and EM dashes preceded and followed by spaces, and justifies typed text accordingly.

'Q' quits without prompting

  If this option is enabled, pressing Q terminates Cone without a confirmation request.

Autosave (minutes)

  Specifies the frequency, in minutes, of automatic backups when writing a new message.

Extra GnuPG encrypt/sign options

  Extra options passed to GnuPG when signing or encrypting a message. See “Encryption And Signatures”.

Extra GnuPG decrypt/verify options

  Extra options passed to GnuPG when decrypting or checking a message's signature. See “Encryption And Signatures”.

Tag names

  Specifies names of custom tags that may be used to label messages. These are arbitrary labels that are shown as different background colors on the folder index screen. Press ENTER to cycle through the list of available colors (only applicable with color-capable terminal displays). See “Folder Index” for more information.

  ### Note

  The default names of the first five tags will be the same as the message labels used by Mozilla's mail client. With most IMAP servers, Mozilla and Cone will see messages tagged/labeled by each other (although Cone may not actually use the same colors as Mozilla, since they depend on the display terminal's colors).

Colors

  The next group of fields set the shown colors for other display elements.

Turn off remote configuration

  Disables remote configuration. See “Remote Configuration” for more information on remote configuration.

Currently defined macros

  This is a list of all currently defined macros. See “Write Message Screen” for more information. To remove a macro, highlight it with the cursor and press DEL. New macros are defined on the Write Message Screen. To re-define an existing macro just follow the same procedure as for defining a new macro, and enter the same macro name (or a function key).

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