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<p>Highlighting a folder on the folder listing screen and
pressing <span class="keycap"><strong>ENTER</strong></span>
shows an index of messages in the folder. <span class="application">Cone</span> shows the following information for
each message:</p>
<div class="itemizedlist">
<ul type="disc">
<li>
<p>The message number, starting from 1 and counting
upwards. New messages (unread messages), are prefixed
with by “<span class="quote"><code class="literal">N</code></span>”. Messages marked for
deletion are prefixed by “<span class="quote"><code class="literal">D</code></span>”. On
some terminals, new messages are prefixed by a little
diamond symbol, and messages are marked for deletion by a
crosscheck symbol. Messages that have been replied to are
prefixed by “<span class="quote"><code class="literal">R</code></span>”.</p>
<p><span class="application">Cone</span> can process
groups of messages at once (for example: deleting or
moving a group of messages to another folder). This is
done by “<span class="quote">flagging</span>”
each message, individually, then executing the command.
Each flagged message is marked with an asterisk,
“<span class="quote"><code class="literal">*</code></span>”. On some displays,
flagged messages are identified by a checkmark symbol,
instead of the asterisk.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The date or time when the message was sent or
received. Only the date is shown for messages sent or
received over a week ago. More recent messages have their
day and time shown.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The sender's or recipient's name. Messages sent to
multiple people have only the first recipient shown.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The approximate size of the message.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The message's subject. There's not a lot of room to
show the message's subject; <span class="application">Cone</span> shows as much of a subject as
possible.</p>
<p>Messages that belong to a watched thread, or a
subthread, have the “<span class="quote"><code class="literal">≡</code></span>”
“<span class="quote"><code class="literal">•</code></span>” character shown,
in reverse colors, in front of the message's subject.
Terminals that cannot display these symbols will use the
“<span class="quote">o</span>” and
“<span class="quote">*</span>” characters
instead. See <a class="link" href="cone02folderindex.html#watch" title="Watching Threads" shape="rect">“<span class="quote">Watching
Threads</span>”</a>, below, for more
information.</p>
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<hr /><pre class="programlisting" xml:space="preserve">
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1 29-Jul-2002 Jack Jones (2 Kb) IMAP server bug
2 08-Aug-2002 easyDNS Support (3 Kb) [easyDNS] New security featu
3 25-Feb-2003 Sam Smith (3 Kb) news.pl
4 05-Mar-2003 Bill Black (4 Kb) Re: IMAP server bug
5 27-Mar-2003 Bill@example.com (3 Kb) Suggested changes to README
N 6 Mon 06:39 PM Joseph_Brown@computer (54 Kb) Re: your request for a copy
N 7 Wed 10:55 AM Dr. Gary Green (2 Kb) Spec file for release 1.7.1,
<B> New Mail: 7 messages </B>
; Search B Blind Fwd D Delete J Jump To
$ Sort folder C Copy F Fwd ^O mOre
</pre><hr />
<p>The highlighted message on this screen designates the
current message. Move the cursor using the cursor up/down
keys, <span class="keycap"><strong>PgUp</strong></span>, and
<span class="keycap"><strong>PgDn</strong></span>. The cursor
left/right keys move the cursor to the previous/next flagged
message. After running a search with the <span class="keycap"><strong>;</strong></span> command (see below), use
the cursor left/right keys to locate the messages found by
the search.</p>
<p><span class="keycap"><strong>L</strong></span> or the
<span class="keycap"><strong><</strong></span> returns to
the folder listing screen, or use the following keys:</p>
<div class="variablelist">
<dl>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>ENTER</strong></span></span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Display the current message.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>;</strong></span></span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Search messages, flag them, then do something to all
flagged messages, at once. Additional options will be
shown to enter the search criteria, described
below.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>$</strong></span></span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Change the order the messages are shown on this
screen. Initially, the messages are shown in the order
they were added to the folder. Use this option to set
the available sorting order: <span class="keycap"><strong>A</strong></span> - in the order they
were added to the folder (default); <span class="keycap"><strong>D</strong></span> - order by each
message's sent date; <span class="keycap"><strong>N</strong></span> - order messages by
sender's (or the recipient's) name; <span class="keycap"><strong>S</strong></span> - order messages by
their subject; <span class="keycap"><strong>T</strong></span> - order messages by
threads.</p>
<p>The threaded view works best on UTF-8 consoles. It
is also not very well suited for machines with limited
resources. Computing a threaded view is expensive, and
the threaded view needs to be recomputed whenever
messages are added or removed from the folder. Machines
with limited resources should use a subject-based sort,
which is much faster, and gives similar results.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>A</strong></span></span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Watch replies to this message, or stop watching
replies to this message. See <a class="link" href="cone02folderindex.html#watch" title="Watching Threads" shape="rect">“<span class="quote">Watching
Threads</span>”</a>, below, for more
information.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>B</strong></span></span></dt>
<dd>
<p>“<span class="quote">Blindly</span>”
forward the current message. The message is resent
without adding any additional comments, or changing the
sender's name. <span class="application">Cone</span>
prompt for the recipient's name, or names, and send the
messages without changing the message's headers in any
way (additional headers may be added by the mail
server, of course).</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>C</strong></span></span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Copy the current message to another folder.
<span class="application">Cone</span> temporarily goes
back to the folder listing screen. Highlight the
destination folder with the cursor and press
<span class="keycap"><strong>ENTER</strong></span>.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>D</strong></span></span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Mark the current message for deletion. The message
is not actually deleted. It is marked for deletion by
the “<span class="quote">expunge</span>”
command.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>F</strong></span></span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Forwards the current message. <span class="application">Cone</span> opens a screen where a new
message may be written. The current message is either
saved as an attachment to the new message, or is quoted
in the new message's text (<span class="application">Cone</span> prompts to choose one or the
other before opening the new message screen).</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>J</strong></span></span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Jump elsewhere in this folder. Scrolling through a
large folder may be a tedious process. This option
prompts for a message number, and moves the cursor to
that message, scrolling the display, if necessary.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>L</strong></span>, or <span class="keycap"><strong><</strong></span></span></dt>
<dd>
<p>This option closes the folder index screen, and
returns to the folder listing screen.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>M</strong></span></span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Pressing <span class="keycap"><strong>M</strong></span> closes this screen,
and opens the “<span class="quote">Main
Menu</span>” screen.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>O</strong></span></span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Move the current message to another folder. This is
similar to the “<span class="quote">Copy</span>” command, except that the
message is removed from the current folder after it's
succesfully copied to the destination folder.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>R</strong></span></span></dt>
<dd>
<p>This option creates a reply to the current message.
<span class="application">Cone</span> may ask a few
questions before creating a reply. <span class="application">Cone</span> knows how to format replies
in three different ways. Not every format reply is
available with every message. No questions are asked
when only one reply format is possible for the message.
<span class="application">Cone</span> asks when more
than one reply format is available.</p>
<p>Proper selection of a reply format is only possible
when the main menu's setup screen is initialized with
all applicable E-mail addresses. The available reply
formats are:</p>
<div class="variablelist">
<dl>
<dt><span class="term">Reply to a mailing
list</span></dt>
<dd>
<p>If one or more of the recipients of the
original message are mailing list addresses, the
reply is addressed to the mailing list addresses
only, ignoring any sender or carbon-copy
addresses.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term">Reply to all</span></dt>
<dd>
<p>If the message is addressed to or from more
than one address, excluding the user's address,
the reply is addressed to all original senders
and recipients, except for the user's
address.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term">Reply</span></dt>
<dd>
<p>The reply is addressed to the sending
party.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>S</strong></span></span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Many mailing lists have “<span class="quote">[subject]</span>” automatically inserted
into the subject line of all mailing list messages.
Press “<span class="quote">S</span>” to
hide/show the so-called “<span class="quote">blobs</span>” from the subject line of
messages shown on the folder index screen. The subject
line has limited display real estate, and removing the
[blob] allows more of the meaningful subject to be
viewed on this screen.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>SPACE</strong></span></span></dt>
<dd>
<p>The space bar is an alternative way to flag or flag
individual messages without using the <span class="keycap"><strong>;</strong></span> command.
<span class="keycap"><strong>SPACE</strong></span>
flags or unflags the current message. It is still
necessary to use <span class="keycap"><strong>;</strong></span> in order to actually
do something to all flagged messages.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>T</strong></span></span></dt>
<dd>
<p><span class="keycap"><strong>T</strong></span> opens
a submenu where a message may be “<span class="quote">tagged</span>”. Tagged messages are shown
with a different background color. This is merely a
visual aid for highlighting selected messages, and
nothing more. A color-capable display is necessary for
showing tagged messages.</p>
<p>The submenu lists nine available tags, selected by
pressing a digit <span class="keycap"><strong>1</strong></span> through <span class="keycap"><strong>9</strong></span>. <span class="keycap"><strong>0</strong></span> removes the existing
tag on the current message. The colors for the tags are
selected from those available on the current display.
Some tags will share the same color if the current
display has less than nine available colors, in
addition to the default text color.</p>
<p>The names of each tag may be set by choosing the
“<span class="quote">Setup</span>”
selection from <span class="application">Cone</span>'s
main menu. The default names of the first five tags are
the same as message labels used by the Mozilla mail
client. With most IMAP servers <span class="application">Cone</span> and Mozilla will see each
other's tagged/labeled messages (however <span class="application">Cone</span>'s colors are determined by
the console's color palette, and may not necessary
match the ones Mozilla uses for the same label). This
requires additional IMAP server functionality that may
not be implemented by some IMAP servers.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>U</strong></span></span></dt>
<dd>
<p>The opposite of the <span class="keycap"><strong>D</strong></span> command - removes
the deleted mark from the current message.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>V</strong></span></span></dt>
<dd>
<p>This command opens the screen with a list of
attachments to the current message. This is the
“<span class="quote">View
Attachment</span>” screen. It is a very simple
screen: each attachment is listed, giving its MIME type
(the type of the attachment), its approximate size, and
the attachments's description, if provided.</p>
<p>Plain text attachments may be viewed individually,
by pressing <span class="keycap"><strong>ENTER</strong></span>. Press
<span class="keycap"><strong>S</strong></span> to
download and save the highlighted attachment. Use
<span class="keycap"><strong>I</strong></span> to
return to the folder index screen, <span class="keycap"><strong>L</strong></span> to return to the
folder listing screen, and <span class="keycap"><strong>M</strong></span> to go back to the
main menu screen.</p>
<p>After downloading an attachment it may be optionally
deleted, or removed from the message. Press
<span class="keycap"><strong>D</strong></span> to
delete the highlighted attachment. Pressing
<span class="keycap"><strong>D</strong></span> does not
delete the attachment immediately, it only marks the
attachment for deletion. More than one attachment may
be marked for deletion at the same time. Press
<span class="keycap"><strong>X</strong></span> to
permanently remove all attachments that are marked for
deletion. Beforing pressing <span class="keycap"><strong>X</strong></span>, a marked attachment
can be unmarked by pressing <span class="keycap"><strong>U</strong></span>. Once <span class="keycap"><strong>X</strong></span> is pressed all the
deleted attachments are gone for good, and cannot be
undeleted.</p>
<div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<h3 class="title">Note</h3>
<p>Only messages in local mail folders, IMAP folders,
and POP3 maildrop folders may have their attachments
removed. Messages in POP3 folders and NetNews folders
cannot have their attachments removed.</p>
</div>
<p>When <span class="application">GnuPG</span> is
installed, highlighting an attachment that contains
GPG/PGP keys and pressing <span class="keycap"><strong>ENTER</strong></span> imports the
keys. <span class="application">Cone</span> prompts for
a confirmation, then runs <span class="application">GnuPG</span> to import the attached keys.
Some versions of <span class="application">Gnu</span>
require a special procedure for importing private keys.
<span class="application">Cone</span>'s prompt has an
explicit private key export option. With other versions
of <span class="application">GnuPG</span> this option
doesn't matter. Selecting the default import option
will import whatever keys were attached, public or
private.</p>
<p>When running in an X-terminal, highlighting an image
attachment and pressing <span class="keycap"><strong>ENTER</strong></span> displays the
image in a separate window. This is done by running
either Gnome's <span class="application">eog</span>, or
KDE's <span class="application">kview</span> image
viewer. <span class="application">Cone</span>'s manual
page contains instructions for installing hooks for
viewing other kinds of attachments, or using a
different image viewer.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>W</strong></span></span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Pressing <span class="keycap"><strong>W</strong></span> opens the
“<span class="quote">Write Message</span>”
screen. This is the screen where a new message can be
typed, and sent. <span class="application">Cone</span>
checks for any unfinished messages in the Draft folder,
before opening this screen. If the Draft folder
contains any messages, <span class="application">Cone</span> offers an option to resume
writing an unfinished message, instead of starting a
new message. <span class="application">Cone</span>
automatically saves a backup copy of the current
message being edited, at regular intervals, so that a
backup copy can be recovered in the event that
<span class="application">Cone</span> is interrupted,
or terminated, in a middle of editing a new message. If
a backup copy exists, <span class="application">Cone</span> announces the existence of an
interrupted message, and prompts to resume writing the
interrupted message. An interrupted message must be
opened and either: sent, explicitly cancelled, or saved
in the Draft folder; before another message can be
written.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>X</strong></span></span></dt>
<dd>
<p>This is the “<span class="quote">Expunge</span>” command. All messages
marked for deletion are permanently removed from the
folder.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
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<div>
<h5 class="title"><a id="id518424" shape="rect" name="id518424"> </a>Searching messages</h5>
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</div>
<p>Pressing <span class="keycap"><strong>;</strong></span>
on the folder index screen brings up an extensive sequence
of options to enter a criteria that's used to search
messages. After the search criteria is specified, messages
that meet the search criteria are shown as flagged
(highlighted, and preceded by a “<span class="quote"><code class="literal">*</code></span>” or a
checkmark). Messages that meet the search criteria can be
quickly located by pressing the cursor left/right keys,
which move the cursor to the previous or the next flagged
message.</p>
<p>Requesting a search when some messages are already
flagged shows an additional prompt:</p>
<div class="variablelist">
<dl>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>B</strong></span> - Broaden
search</span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Searches the remaining messages that are not
already flagged. Any messages that meet the search
criteria are also flagged. Existing messages that are
already flagged remain flagged. The final result is
that messages which meet both the new search criteria
and the previous search criteria(s) are flagged.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>N</strong></span> - Narrow
search</span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Searches only messages that are already flagged.
Flagged messages that meet the search criteria remain
flagged. Messages that don't are unflagged.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>C</strong></span> - Copy
flagged</span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Copy flagged messages to another folder.
<span class="application">Cone</span> temporarily
goes back to the folder listing screen. Highlight the
destination folder with the cursor and press
<span class="keycap"><strong>ENTER</strong></span>.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>D</strong></span> - Delete
selected</span></dt>
<dd>
<p>No more searching is done. All flagged messages
are marked as deleted (but not actually removed, use
the e<span class="keycap"><strong>X</strong></span>
command to do that).</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>O</strong></span> - Move
flagged</span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Moves flagged messages to another folder. This is
similar to the “<span class="quote">Copy</span>” command, except that the
messages are removed from the current folder after
they're succesfully copied to the destination
folder.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>R</strong></span> - Reset
selected</span></dt>
<dd>
<p>No more searching is done. All flagged messages
are unflagged.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>U</strong></span> - Undelete
selected</span></dt>
<dd>
<p>No more searching is done. All flagged messages
that are marked as deleted have the deleted mark
removed.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
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<div class="titlepage">
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<div>
<h6 class="title"><a id="id519077" shape="rect" name="id519077"> </a>Search criteria</h6>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="variablelist">
<dl>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>A</strong></span> - select
all</span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Press <span class="keycap"><strong>A</strong></span> to select all
available messages.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>!</strong></span> - not</span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Press <span class="keycap"><strong>!</strong></span> to logically
reverse the following search criteria. Thus, if the
entered search criteria was “<span class="quote">Search the <code class="literal">From</code> header for <code class="literal">troll@example.com</code></span>”
the actual search will find messages where the
<code class="literal">From</code> header does
<span class="emphasis"><em>NOT</em></span> contain
this text.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>D</strong></span> - search by
date</span></dt>
<dd>
<p>A date-related search. Additional prompts
follow, described below.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>S</strong></span> - search by
status</span></dt>
<dd>
<p>A status-related search. Each message has
several status flags that define whether the
message is a new message, a deleted message, a
replied message, and so on. Selecting a status
search shows three options: “<span class="quote">Deleted</span>”, “<span class="quote">Unread</span>”, and
“<span class="quote">Replied</span>”,
to search for all deleted, unread, or replied
messages, respectively.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>T</strong></span> - search by
text</span></dt>
<dd>
<p>A text-based search, search for messages that
contain (or don't contain) a given text string.
Additional prompts follow, that further refine what
kind of text to search for.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>Z</strong></span> - search by
size</span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Search for messages that are bigger or smaller
than a certain size. Select “<span class="quote">Larger than</span>” or
“<span class="quote">Smaller
than</span>” at the next prompt, then enter
the target message size, in bytes, and press
<span class="keycap"><strong>ENTER</strong></span>
to search.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
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<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
<h6 class="title"><a id="id519222" shape="rect" name="id519222"> </a>Date-based searches</h6>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p>A date-based search brings up additional prompts
that specify the nature of the search. There are two
dates that are associated with every message: the
“<span class="quote">sent</span>” date,
when the message was sent; and the “<span class="quote">received</span>” date, when the message
was received.</p>
<p>The sent date is obtained from the message's
<code class="literal">Date:</code> header. The received
date is obtained from the mail server (or from the
timestamp on the local mailbox).</p>
<p>The first prompt enters which date is searched
for:</p>
<div class="orderedlist">
<ol type="1">
<li>
<p>Messages that were sent before the given
date.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Messages that were the sent on the given
date.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Messages that were the sent since (on, or
after) the given date.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Messages that were received before the given
date.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Messages that were the received on the given
date.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Messages that were the received since (on, or
after) the given date.</p>
</li>
</ol>
</div>
<p>The actual date is entered interactively. It starts
with today's date. Press <span class="keycap"><strong>+</strong></span> or <span class="keycap"><strong>-</strong></span> to advance the shown
date to the next or the following date. Press
<span class="keycap"><strong>[</strong></span> or
<span class="keycap"><strong>]</strong></span> to
advance the shown date by a month. Press <span class="keycap"><strong><</strong></span> or <span class="keycap"><strong>></strong></span> to advance the
shown date by a month. Press the space bar to accept
the shown date, and search for messages.</p>
<div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<h3 class="title">Note</h3>
<p>Date-based searches are not currently implemented
for NetNews newsgroups.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
<h6 class="title"><a id="id519337" shape="rect" name="id519337"> </a>Text-based searches</h6>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p>Selecting a text-based search shows a wealth of
options:</p>
<div class="variablelist">
<dl>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>S</strong></span> -
subject</span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Search the contents of the <code class="literal">Subject:</code> header.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>F</strong></span> -
from</span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Search the contents of the <code class="literal">From:</code> header.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>T</strong></span> - to</span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Search the contents of the <code class="literal">To:</code> header.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>C</strong></span> - cc</span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Search the contents of the <code class="literal">Cc:</code> header.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>B</strong></span> -
bcc</span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Search the contents of the <code class="literal">Bcc:</code> header.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>H</strong></span> - specific
header</span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Searches for the given text in some other
header. The next prompt asks for the header's
name.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>O</strong></span> -
contents</span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Search the contents of the message for the
given text.</p>
</dd>
<dt><span class="term"><span class="keycap"><strong>A</strong></span> -
anywhere</span></dt>
<dd>
<p>Search the given text anywhere - headers or
contents.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<p>Enter the text to search for after selecting one of
these options, and press <span class="keycap"><strong>ENTER</strong></span> to perform the
search.</p>
<div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<h3 class="title">Note</h3>
<p>Efficient searching is implemented for local mail,
and IMAP/SMAP mailboxes only. NetNews servers'
searching capabilities are very limited, and POP3
servers have no search facilities whatsoever. In all
cases, searching for message status flags is
supported, since message status flags are always
cached locally.</p>
<p>Only message headers of NetNews folders may be
searched, and only English characters can be used as
a search string. Some older NetNews servers may not
have any searching ability whatsoever. Searching of
message contents is not supported. Searching by
message size, or message's date is not supported
either.</p>
<p>Searching of POP3 folders is also not very
efficient, although the search text is not limited to
English characters only. POP3 folder search is
accomplished by downloading the complete headers of
each message, and searching it manually. Downloaded
headers are not cached. The headers are also
downloaded when searching by message's date.
Searching by message size, or message's date is not
supported for POP3 folders.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
<h5 class="title"><a id="watch" shape="rect" name="watch"> </a>Watching Threads</h5>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p>Pressing <span class="keycap"><strong>A</strong></span>
displays the following prompt: “<span class="quote">Watch thread up to <em class="replaceable"><code>A</code></em> days, <em class="replaceable"><code>B</code></em>-deep replies?
(Y/N).</span>” The initial values for <em class="replaceable"><code>A</code></em> and <em class="replaceable"><code>B</code></em> are taken from the setup
screen. Press <span class="keycap"><strong>D</strong></span> or <span class="keycap"><strong>R</strong></span> to adjust the defaults,
if desired.</p>
<p>Answering the prompt with <span class="keycap"><strong>Y</strong></span> will “<span class="quote">watch</span>” the currently highlighted
message, and any new replies to it. The highlighted
message's subject will be shown with a highly-visible
“<span class="quote"><code class="literal">≡</code></span>” character (or the
“<span class="quote">o</span>” character on
some terminals). New replies to the watched message will
also be automatically marked in the same fashion.</p>
<div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<h3 class="title">Note</h3>
<p>Any existing replies to the watched message are not
automatically marked. Only future replies to the message
will be automatically marked for watching.</p>
</div>
<p>Thread-watching is mostly useful with large NetNews
newsgroups. A single, watched, conversation thread can be
easily identified even in a very active newsgroup; however
thread-watching can also be used with regular mail folders
(with some limitations as noted below).</p>
<p>NetNews threads are famous for quickly diverging
off-topic, so <span class="application">Cone</span>'s
thread-watching future quietly turns itself off, after a
while. There's very little uses in continuing to monitor a
thread that began talking about the merits of organic food,
but then ended up becoming a heated discussion about
psychological problems of the Hollywood elite.</p>
<p>The initial default settings will watch for replies for
up to fourteen days, or five levels of follow-ups,
whichever comes first. That meaning that a reply to a reply
to a reply to a reply to a reply of a watched message will
still be shown as part of a watched thread, but its own
reply will not be. There is no limit on the number of
watched replies to the initial message, or to any of the
five subsequent levels of follow-ups, as long as they
arrive within the time-enforced limit.</p>
<div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<h3 class="title">Note</h3>
<p>After coming back from a 15-day vacation, and opening
a folder which used to have watched threads, none of the
new messages will be marked for watching, even though
they arrived before the 14-days were up. Well, you just
had a nice 15-day vacation, why do you care about some
stale flame war that started more than two weeks ago?</p>
</div>
<p>The last level of watched followups will be marked with
a different character, a “<span class="quote"><code class="literal">•</code></span>”
(or “<span class="quote"><code class="literal">*</code></span>” as shown by some
terminals), instead of the “<span class="quote"><code class="literal">≡</code></span>”
character. This is a visual cue to evaluate whether this
subthread is still worth following. If so, the message can
be manually re-watched. Highlighting the message and
choosing this option will “<span class="quote">renew</span>” the interest in this thread for
another round of followups (however other branches of the
original thread will still expire as usual, unless they are
also renewed).</p>
<p>Selecting this option again on a message that's already
being watched will prompt to turn off watching for more
replies. The message will no longer appear watched, and any
future replies to the message will not be watched.</p>
<div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<h3 class="title">Note</h3>
<p>Any existing replies that are watched will continue to
be watched, even though the original message is no longer
being watched.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
<h6 class="title"><a id="id519993" shape="rect" name="id519993"> </a>Watching E-mail threads</h6>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p>Thread watching is designed primarily to be used with
NetNews newsgroups. The mechanism by which replies are
selected for watching is quick, and simple. NetNews
messages typically carry robust threading metadata, and
even if there's a NetNews hiccup, and messages come in
out of order, all eligible replies should still be
correctly selected for watching. There is a very small
chance that a very severe NetNews disruption will result
in a failure to catch watched replies. However, messages
would probably come in so wildly out of sequence that the
thread is not likely to remain readable even if all
watched replies were properly tagged, whenever they
arrive.</p>
<p>Thread watching is not limited to NetNews newsgroups.
E-mail threads may also be selected for watching.
However, E-mail messages tend to have far less threading
metadata than their NetNews counterparts. A disruption in
incoming E-mail is more likely to result in missed
replies, than a NetNews disruption. However, E-mail
disruptions, on average, tend to occur far less often
than NetNews disruptions, so everything tends to come out
even.</p>
<p>Additionally, many modern E-mail clients now include
the same full threading metadata as NetNews clients
(<span class="application">Cone</span> always includes
complete threading metadata with every outgoing message,
NetNews or E-mail). This issue continues to be less and
less relevant, as time goes on.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
<h5 class="title"><a id="id520027" shape="rect" name="id520027"> </a>Checking for new mail</h5>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p>The semantics of checking for new mail varies slightly,
depending on the mail account. With SMAP-based mail
account, and with most IMAP mail accounts, new mail in the
current folder is shown immediately. If messages in the
folder are shown in the order they were added to the
folder, new mail will naturally appear at the end of
folder. If messages are shown in a different sorting order,
new messages will be shown wherever they should appear in
accordance with the current sort order. Most IMAP mail
accounts show new mail as soon as it is received. Some IMAP
mail accounts do not report new mail immediately after it
is delivered to the mail folder (this depends on the IMAP
server software). <span class="application">Cone</span>
checks for new mail at regular intervals, and new received
messages will show up after the next check for new
mail.</p>
<p>New mail delivered to a local mbox folder will usually
be shown when <span class="application">Cone</span> checks
for new mail, at regularly-scheduled intervals. New mail
delivered to a local maildir will also usually appear only
after <span class="application">Cone</span> checks for new
mail. On most Linux and SGI systems, and on any other
system that has the File Access Monitor daemon running, new
mail will be reported immediately.</p>
<p>In all cases, move to the last message in the folder,
and use the cursor down key to have <span class="application">Cone</span> explicitly checks for new mail.
New mail in a POP3 folder will only be shown after an
explicit new mail check (<span class="application">Cone</span> does not check for new mail in
POP3 folders by itself).</p>
<p>In all cases, new mail will not be immediately shown
after the folder index screen is closed. When the folder
index screen is closed, the mail folder still remains
“<span class="quote">opened</span>” until
<span class="application">Cone</span> opens another folder
in the same mail account. <span class="application">Cone</span> still regularly checks for new
mail when the folder index screen is not being shown
(except for POP3 accounts). New mail will be reported only
when <span class="application">Cone</span> checks for new
mail, or when the folder index screen is reopened.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
<h5 class="title"><a id="id520108" shape="rect" name="id520108"> </a>Concurrent changes to the current
folder's contents</h5>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p>Most mail accounts allow the same folder to be opened by
multiple applications. When <span class="application">Cone</span> has a folder opened, another
application might also have the same folder opened, and
another application may be making changes to the folder, at
the same time.</p>
<p>Generally speaking, new mail delivered to the folder,
while it's opened by <span class="application">Cone</span>,
is one example of concurrent changes to the contents of the
folder while it is opened. Other applications may make
other kinds of changes to the folder's contents: changing a
message's status (whether the message is unread, deleted,
replied, tagged, and/or flagged); or removing a message
from the folder. In general, changes by other applications
are reported in the same manner that <span class="application">Cone</span> reports new mail. If <span class="application">Cone</span> reports new mail as soon as it is
received, <span class="application">Cone</span> will also
report other kinds of changes to the folder's contents as
soon as they occur. Otherwise, changes to the folder's
contents are reported the next time <span class="application">Cone</span> checks for new mail. An attempt
to access a message that was removed by another
application, but not yet reported, usually results in an
error.</p>
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