build instructions for your operating system. To build nmh, you will
need an ANSI C compiler such as gcc.
-0) If you have obtained nmh by checking it out of CVS, you will
- need to run the GNU autotools to regenerate some files.
- (If your directory already contains a file 'config.h.in'
- then this has already been done and you do not need to do it.)
- You can regenerate the files by running the command
+0) If you have obtained nmh by checking it out of the git repository,
+ you will need to run the GNU autotools to regenerate some files.
+ (If your directory already contains a file 'config.h.in' then this
+ has already been done and you do not need to do it.) You can
+ regenerate the files by running the command
./autogen.sh
./configure [options]
This will check the configuration of your OS, and create the
- include file config.h, as well as the various Makefiles.
+ include file config.h, as well as the Makefile.
The configure script accepts various options. The options of
most interest are listed in a section below. To see the list
2) Look through the user configuration section at the beginning
of the generated include file `config.h'. You may
- want to customize some #defines for your environment.
+ want to customize some #defines for your environment, though
+ that is usually unnecessary. Note the configure options below
+ control some of the #defines.
3) make
-4) make install
+4) make test
+
+ This takes a bit of time (under 2 minutes on a modern machine) but
+ is highly recommended. "make test" copies your configuration and
+ rebuilds nmh completely in a sandbox, so you can test without
+ disturbing an existing nmh installation or any of your nmh folders.
+
+5) 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
make is processing that directory to see if you need to merge
changes from *.prev files into the new versions.
-5) Edit the file `mts.conf' (installed in the nmh `etc' directory)
+6) Edit the file `mts.conf' (installed in the nmh `etc' directory)
and make any necessary changes for the mail transport interface
you are using.
which `inc' and `msgchk' will always query for new mail.
c) "servers" defines the server to which you send outgoing SMTP
- traffic.
+ traffic. See the discussion of the --with-smtpserver configure
+ option below.
If you compile with POP support, but don't want to use it exclusively,
you can use the `-host' and `-user' options to `inc' and `msgchk'
rather than hardcoding pophost in `mts.conf'.
Check the `mh-tailor' man page for a list of all the available options
- for this file ("masquerade" may be of particular interest).
+ for this file ("masquerade" may be of particular interest, though its
+ default value allows the most flexibility. See the discussion of the
+ --enable-masquerade configure option below).
-6) Edit the file `mhn.defaults' (installed in the nmh `etc' directory).
+7) Edit the file `mhn.defaults' (installed in the nmh `etc' directory).
This file contains the default profile entries for the nmh command
`mhn' and is created by the script `mhn.defaults.sh'. This script
will search a generic path (essentially your $PATH) for programs to
"MH & xmh: Email for Users and Programmers", 3rd edition, by Jerry Peek,
on the Internet at <http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/confmhn.html>.
-7) Add an optional global mh.profile, if desired. This profile should be
+8) Add an optional global mh.profile, if desired. This profile should be
placed in the nmh `etc' directory with the name `mh.profile'. This
file will be used to construct the initial .mh_profile of a new nmh
user, but will not be consulted after that.
Enable debugging support.
--enable-masquerade[='draft_from mmailid username_extension']
+ By default, all three masquerade options are enabled.
+
If this option is disabled, the mts.conf file will contain the
line "masquerade: " (with no value), which may be manually edited
later. 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. By default, it is enabled.
-
- The above usage shows the default, with all three masquerade
- options being specified. Any subset of the three may be
- specified.
+ the right value will be there.
See the mh-tailor(5) man page for full documentation of "masquerade:".
+ This option will likely be removed in a future version of nmh.
+
--enable-pop
Enable client-side support for pop.
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