James Freer wrote:

I've just been installing the choice of text email clients - above three to try out. Mutt and Alpine fine, but Cone i can't get the smtp bit right. I've contacted the developer on the Cone list who just replies with very brief ambiguous replies. It can't be much different from Alpine but so far can't get it to go. To use Cone it seems one is expected to be a mind reader. I doubt if it's better than alpine but it would be nice to give it a go.

To help you with Cone, it seems one is expected to be a mind reader! ;-)

I don't use Cone, you've not linked your email to the Cone list, and I spent more time than I should have to find it at http://old.nabble.com/Cone---outgoing-server-setting-td32222007.html

It looks to me like your Cone SMTP settings are basically correct and Cone is giving it to your SMTP server, but either:

1. your hostname is misconfigured;

2. your SMTP server isn't configured to convert "james@james-desktop" into your real envelope email address. With exim on debian, that's controlled by /etc/email-addresses but I don't remember how postfix does it. That's the SMTP envelope email address, not the one in the email body, contrary to the impression given by the reply you had; or

3. your Cone settings should tell it what SMTP envelope address to use - that might be SMTP userid but I'm not sure;

and so your SMTP server is rejecting it. It's not really a bug in either: more that your configurations aren't compatible.

I've got Alpine to work but setting 'Roles' for mail i'm still not 100% sorted. I never thought text email clients were worth bothering with... once i'd got Alpine going i could see why... speed. I find Thunderbird and Evolution too slow for large amounts of mail. [...]

Yeah, I know what you mean. I use Heirloom mailx in Emacs which is even faster. ;-)

Regards,