Now, time for part three. As you can see the website has changed, after recent hacking attempts on the Joomla system, a friend gave me the tip to try out drupal. The old site is automaticly redirected to here, but all the links do not work anymore, so you\'ll have to update your bookmarks. Sorry for the inconvinience.

This time were going to talk about Cone and Screen. Screen is IMHO the best command line app ever, because you do not have to CTRL+ATL+F* all the time, and if your on SSH you can \"detach\" screen, and log off while your CLI apps are still runing within screen. Awsome, right?

Lets start with cone. First install it:

$ sudo apt-get install cone

It will probably install some other programs, but thats OK to me. When it is finished fire it up:

$ cone

You will see something like My Email and Online Tutorial. We cannot delete them both, but My Email can be deleted. The online tutorial might be nice to read if your interested. (Delete with SHIFT+D).

Now lets press M for Main Menu, and then N for a New account. In this example I\'ll set up gmail via IMAP, but it works with every mail account which has pop or IMAP. Even Windows Live Mail (Crap) has POP, so you\'ll be able to use that to.

Press I for IMAP, or P for POP. On the bottom of the screen you\'ll see all the options you have, so if you need something other then I tell here, check there for more options.

I need IMAP, so press I.

At Account Name type in something like Gmail or Google Mail.
Server: imap,gmail.com
Login: you@gmail.com (Replace you with your gmail. Note to google apps users, replace @gmail.com with your own domain, like john@doe.com.)
Password: the password of your account.
For Gmail, go to the field: Use an Encrypted Connection and press SPACE.

Then, if everything is correct, press Login.
You\'ll then get to the Folders screen again, and now you can connect to your account.

For gmail I go to the Gmail INBOX folder and press ENTER.
Then you\'ll see all the mail in your inbox. To read a mail, select one and press ENTER. To get back to the inbox then press I (SHIFT+i). To reply to an Email, press R, and then N. (I do not want to reply to all. If your mail is finished, press CTRL+X to send it. To attacht a file, press CTRL+T, select the file, type a description and choose if you want to inline it.

We also need to setup the SMTP server for Gmail, or for your other mail account. Press M for main menu, and then S for Setup. Go to the field Outgoing SMTP server and type the address of your SMTP server there. For gmail/Google apps that is smtp.gmail.com. Gmail needs autentication, so enter your gmail address in the field SMTP userid (optional). Select the field Use SMTP over Tunneled SSL so that cone will use the good ports. Now go all the way down and save it via SAVE.

When you send emails with cone via GMAIL, the name someone else sees is the full name of your Linux account. At me that is MASTA!!!!. that is not representative, so we need to change that. Go and write a test mail to yourself. Then Press CTRL+F for Full headers. Change in the From field the part between the \"\" and between the < >.

Then send the mail with CTRL+X. press Y to send it, and it should ask for your SMTP password. (For GMAIL.) enter it. It will ask, memorize the headers? press Y, and press Y again. Now others will see the name you just setup, instead of MASTA!!!!.

If you have more then 1 account like me, I think it is handy to have a master password so that I only have to enter a password once, at startup. This is not needed, but it can be handy for you. Go to the Main menu with M, and then press P for Master Password.

Enter a good and strong password which is atleast 10 chars in length and has normal, CAPS 1234 numbers and some $%@. Do not make it to easy, because if people get that password they will have access to all of your emails.

Enter it again. Now your finished.

These thing are the basics, and Cone can do a lot more, like signing mail with GPG, it has an entire address book, and you can do usenet reading. I do not use GPG, and I know all the address of all the people I mail with, and I don\'t have a usenet account, so I will not cover that stuff here. The man page or the online tutorial will help you further with that.

I will do screen in the next tutorial, this one is so long already... That will be part 3.2.
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