3) make
-4) make install
+4) make check
+
+ This takes a bit of time, around one minute on a modern machine,
+ but is highly recommended.
+
+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.
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, though its
- default value allows the most flexibility. See the discussion of the
- --enable-masquerade configure option below).
+ for this file.
-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) make check
-
- This takes a bit of time, around one minute on a modern machine,
- but is highly recommended. If you're going to run it, it must be
- run after installation. If you want to run the nmh test suite
- prior to installation, use "make distcheck".
-
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
--enable-debug
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.
-
- 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.