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
+ 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.
5) Edit the file `mts.conf' (installed in the nmh `etc' directory)
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",
+ "fcntl", "flock", and "lockf". Of the four, dot-locking
+ requires no special kernel or filesystem support, and simply
+ creates a file called "FILE.lock" to indicate that "FILE" is
+ locked.
+
+ In order to be effective, you should contact the site
+ administrator to find out what locking mechanisms other
+ mail delivery and user programs respect. The most common
+ reason not to use dot-locking is if the mail spool directory
+ is not world- or user-writeable, and thus a lock file cannot
+ be created.
+
--with-mts=MTS (DEFAULT is smtp)
- Specify the mail transport system you want to use. The two
+ Specify the default mail transport system you want to use. The two
acceptable options are "smtp" (which is the default), and
- "sendmail".
-
- If you use "smtp", this will enable a direct SMTP (simple
- mail transport protocol) interface in nmh. When sending
- mail, instead of passing the message to the mail transport
- agent, `post' will open a socket connection to the mail
- port on the machine specified in the `mts.conf' file
- (default is localhost), and speak SMTP directly.
-
- If you use "sendmail", then `post' will send messages by
- passing forking a local copy of sendmail. Currently it
- will still speak SMTP with this local copy of sendmail.
+ "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.
+
+ If you use "smtp", this will enable a direct SMTP (simple mail
+ transport protocol) interface in nmh. When sending mail, instead
+ of passing the message to the mail transport agent, `post' will
+ open a socket connection to the mail port on the machine specified
+ in the `mts.conf' file (default is localhost), and speak SMTP
+ directly.
+
+ If you use "sendmail", 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'.
+--with-ndbm=LIB (DEFAULT is to autodetect)
+--with-ndbmheader=HEADER (DEFAULT is to autodetect)
+ Specify the header file (eg ndbm.h) and library (eg ndbm) to use
+ to compile against the ndbm database library. By default, configure
+ will try various possibilities until it finds one that works; this
+ option only needs to be specified if the autodetection fails or
+ makes the wrong choice.
+
+ 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
--
The nmh team
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+nmh-workers@nongnu.org
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