ALERT: NO $HOME/.mh_profile
not found, mh format names disabled”;
and Cone lists several
funny-named folders, like “#ftp” and
“#news”When connecting to an IMAP server for the first time, Cone reads server's list of default mailboxes. UW-IMAP server's list of default mailboxes includes optional folders it is capable of supporting, even if those folders are not actually configured and enabled, which includes MH folders. When Cone asks for the number of messages in the “#mhinbox” folder, the UW-IMAP server reports an error unless the account already has an MH-format mailbox (which is usually not the case).
Therefore, manual adjustments are needed after opening
an UW-IMAP account for the first time. Highlight each
unwanted mail folder, and press D to delete it. Leave
only “INBOX” and
“Folders”. The
“Folders”
directory will usually open the server account's home
directory. The default UW-IMAP server configuration
provides IMAP access to the entire server account's home
directory. In most cases mail folders will not exist in
the home directory, but in a subdirectory, such as
“Mail”. Display
the contents of the account's home directory by opening
“Folders”,
highlight the “Mail” subdirectory, then press
U, then
T. This
action creates a top-level shortcut to $HOME/Mail, after which the top-level
“Folders” entry
may be deleted, leaving the UW-IMAP server account
showing only “INBOX” and “Mail” as the initial list of
folders. This is usually the preferred UW-IMAP server
configuration.
ERROR: Your display appears to be set to the
UTF-8 character set. This application cannot display this
character set. If this application did not read the display
character set name correctly, the name of the display's
character set name can be manually specified using the
CHARSET environment variable. Otherwise reconfigure your
display to use a supported character set and try
again.”Cone requires the wide-character version of the Curses library in order to support UTF-8 displays. Some Linux distributions (or other systems) may not include a wide-character Curses library. The INSTALL file contains instructions for building a UTF-8 capable version of Cone for Red Hat 9, and earlier.
ERROR: Your display appears to be set to the
ANSI_X3.4-1968 character set. This application cannot
display this character set. If this application did not
read the display character set name correctly, the name of
the display's character set name can be manually specified
using the CHARSET environment variable. Otherwise
reconfigure your display to use a supported character set
and try again.”This error is reported if LC_ALL, LANG,
or some other locale-related variable is not set. A
similar error naming some other character set indicates
that this character set is not supported by Cone. Cone supports most ISO-8859 and
Cyrillic character sets. When built with a wide-character
enabled Curses library Cone can also display UTF-8, and
some East Asian character sets.
The server is running old POP3 code that does not implement all the modern POP3 features. Instead of trying to configure a POP3 account, configure a POP3 maildrop account instead. A POP3 maildrop account will work with servers that do not implement the modern POP3 protocol.