X-Git-Url: http://git.marmaro.de/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=eb2971d30ce111d8e2b8debb031d5c004f1920d2;hb=e69044f7624abe5cb2cb796d528c0cc5f29515f7;hp=1da728e15bba2522a6d8435e71e367758d891ca7;hpb=1e0028887e9036b786dc7a844121b67a29dbbe32;p=mmh diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 1da728e..eb2971d 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -2,9 +2,18 @@ # INSTALL -- installation instructions # --------------- -Installing nmh --------------- +-------------------------------- +Installing nmh, guided by script +-------------------------------- +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. + + +------------------------ +Installing nmh, manually +------------------------ Please read all of the following instructions before you begin building nmh. @@ -42,31 +51,25 @@ need an ANSI C compiler such as gcc. ./configure --help -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, though - that is usually unnecessary. Note the configure options below - control some of the #defines. +2) make -3) make - -4) make check +3) (Optional) make check This takes a bit of time, around one minute on a modern machine, but is highly recommended. -5) make install + 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 will be backed up as .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. - -6) Edit the file `mts.conf' (installed in the nmh `etc' directory) + 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 you are using. @@ -91,16 +94,13 @@ need an ANSI C compiler such as gcc. 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'. + If you don't want to hardcode pophost in `mts.conf', you can use + the `-host' and `-user' options to `inc' and `msgchk'. 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. -7) Edit the file `mhn.defaults' (installed in the nmh `etc' directory). +6) 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 @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ need an ANSI C compiler such as gcc. "MH & xmh: Email for Users and Programmers", 3rd edition, by Jerry Peek, on the Internet at . -8) Add an optional global mh.profile, if desired. This profile should be +7) 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. @@ -196,25 +196,6 @@ Options for configure --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. - ---enable-apop - Enable client-side support for apop (Authenticated POP). - --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 @@ -223,16 +204,6 @@ Options for configure nmh command `prompter'. If you specify `prompter', then you don't need to give the full pathname. ---with-hesiod=PREFIX - Specify the location of Hesiod. - ---with-krb4=PREFIX - Specify the location of Kerberos V4 for KPOP support. After - running configure, you will need to change the POPSERVICE #define in - config.h if you want to use KPOP exclusively (rather than being able - to switch between KPOP and normal POP3). See the comments inside - config.h for details. - --with-locking=LOCKTYPE (DEFAULT is dot) Specify the locking mechanism when attempting to "inc" or "msgchk" a local mail spool. Valid options are "dot", @@ -248,6 +219,11 @@ Options for configure is not world- or user-writeable, and thus a lock file cannot be created. +--enable-lockdir=DIR (DEFAULT is disabled) + If dot locking is being used, store all dot-lock files in "DIR". + The default is to store them in the directory of the file being + 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 @@ -295,6 +271,20 @@ Options for configure See the mh-tailor(5) man page for full documentation of "servers:". +--with-cyrus-sasl (DEFAULT is without) + 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-readline (DEFAULT is to autodetect) + Enable support for readline functionality (command history/editing) at + the WhatNow? prompt. + -- The nmh team nmh-workers@nongnu.org