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.