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Installing nmh, guided by script
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-For routine installation on popular platforms, the shell script in
-docs/contrib/build_nmh can be used to guide you through configuration.
-It will then build and optionally (with -i) install in the configured
-location.
+For routine installation on popular platforms, the build_nmh shell
+script can be used to guide you through configuration. It will then
+build and optionally (with -i) install in the configured location.
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This takes a bit of time, around one minute on a modern machine,
but is highly recommended.
+ test/inc/test-deb359167 uses valgrind, which detects use of an
+ uninitialized variable on older Linux distributions such as
+ Mandriva 2007.0 and CentOS 5.4. That particular failure is
+ beyond the scope of nmh and can be ignored.
+
4) make install
Note that if you have [n]mh files in your install directories with
the same names as the files being installed, the old ones will get
- overwritten without any warning. The only directory that isn't
- true for is the `etc' directory -- in that directory, the previous
- copy of each <file> will be backed up as <file>.prev if it differs
- from the newly-installed copy. Watch for any diff output while
- make is processing that directory to see if you need to merge
- changes from *.prev files into the new versions.
+ overwritten without any warning.
5) Edit the file `mts.conf' (installed in the nmh `etc' directory)
and make any necessary changes for the mail transport interface
"configure" initial values for these on its command line or in its
environment. For example,
- ./configure CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix
+ ./configure CC=c99 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix
If you wish to add options that are only used at compile time instead of
link time, you can use the CPPFLAGS variable:
--bindir=DIR (DEFAULT is ${prefix}/bin)
nmh's binaries (show, inc, comp, ...) are installed here.
---libdir=DIR (DEFAULT is ${prefix}/lib)
- nmh's support binaries (post, slocal, mhl, ...) are installed here.
+--libexecdir=DIR (DEFAULT is ${prefix}/libexec)
+ nmh's support binaries (post, slocal, mhl, ...) are installed
+ in ${libexecdir}/nmh.
--sysconfdir=DIR (DEFAULT is ${prefix}/etc)
- nmh's config files (mts.conf, mhn.defaults, ...) are installed here.
+ nmh's config files (mts.conf, mhn.defaults, ...) are installed
+ in ${sysconfdir}/nmh.
--mandir=DIR (DEFAULT is ${prefix}/man)
nmh's man pages are installed here.
---enable-debug
- Enable debugging support.
-
--with-editor=EDITOR (DEFAULT is vi)
specify the full path of the default editor to use. If this
option is not given, then the configuration process will search
nmh command `prompter'. If you specify `prompter', then you don't
need to give the full pathname.
---with-locking=LOCKTYPE (DEFAULT is dot)
+--with-locking=LOCKTYPE (DEFAULT is based on operating system)
Specify the locking mechanism when attempting to "inc" or
"msgchk" a local mail spool. Valid options are "dot",
"fcntl", "flock", and "lockf". Of the four, dot-locking
locked.
--with-mts=MTS (DEFAULT is smtp)
- Specify the default mail transport system you want to use. The two
- acceptable options are "smtp" (which is the default), and
- "sendmail". This value will be put into the mts.conf file. You
- may find it convenient to specify a value at configure-time,
- however, so that each time nmh is reinstalled, the right value will
- be there.
+ Specify the default mail transport system you want to use. The three
+ acceptable options are "smtp" (which is the default),
+ "sendmail/smtp", and "sendmail/pipe". This value will be put into
+ the mts.conf file. You may find it convenient to specify a value
+ at configure-time, however, so that each time nmh is reinstalled,
+ the right value will be there.
If you use "smtp", this will enable a direct SMTP (simple mail
transport protocol) interface in nmh. When sending mail, instead
in the `mts.conf' file (default is localhost), and speak SMTP
directly.
- If you use "sendmail", then `post' will send messages by forking a
+ If you use "sendmail/smtp", then `post' will send messages by forking a
local copy of sendmail. Currently it will still speak SMTP with
this local copy of sendmail.
- If you wish to use a transport agent other than sendmail, you will
- need to use a `sendmail wrapper'.
+ If you use "sendmail/pipe", then `post' will open a pipe to the
+ sendmail program and invoke it with the '-t' and '-i' options
+ and write the message to sendmail's standard input. Note that
+ some nmh functionality is not available in this mode.
--with-ndbm=LIB (DEFAULT is to autodetect)
--with-ndbmheader=HEADER (DEFAULT is to autodetect)
If either of these options is given then the other must also be
specified.
---with-pager=PAGER (DEFAULT is more)
- Specify the default pager (file lister) to use. If this option
- is not given, then the configuration process will search for the
- command `more' and use it as the default.
-
---with-smtpservers='SMTPSERVER1[ SMTPSERVER2...]' (DEFAULT is localhost)
+--with-smtpserver='SMTPSERVER' (DEFAULT is localhost)
If this option is not specified, the mts.conf file will contain
the line "servers: localhost", which may be manually edited later.
You may find it convenient to specify a value at configure-time,
See the mh-tailor(5) man page for full documentation of "servers:".
---with-cyrus-sasl (DEFAULT is without)
+--with-cyrus-sasl (DEFAULT is to autodetect))
Enable SASL support for SMTP and POP via the Cyrus SASL library.
This is used for the POP AUTH and SMTP AUTH protocols. This supports
a wide variety of security mechanisms, including Kerberos/GSSAPI.
Session encryption via SASL is supported for both POP and SMTP
(depending on server-side support and the security mechanism in use).
---with-tls (DEFAULT is without)
- Enable TLS session encryption support for SMTP via the STARTTLS command.
+--with-tls (DEFAULT is to autodetect)
+ Enable TLS session encryption support for SMTP via the STARTTLS command
+ and TLS at connection start for both SMTP and POP.
+
+--with-oauth (DEFAULT is to enable if curl is installed)
+ Enable OAuth2 authentication for SMTP and POP.
--with-readline (DEFAULT is to autodetect)
Enable support for readline functionality (command history/editing) at
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