X-Git-Url: http://git.marmaro.de/?p=mmh;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=37a38e5793863a5ae4e10047cdc34daf71f223bc;hp=28ccfea2955c1cc227833c134606782020578751;hb=1513f7668c494c4583141d6115669b7198c14556;hpb=fd2a10c17dec1491b240a3f098eb621c7bf55b31 diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 28ccfea..37a38e5 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ You should check the MACHINES file to see if there are any specific build instructions for your operating system. To build nmh, you will need an ANSI C compiler such as gcc. -1) Run the command +1) From the top-level source directory, run the command - sh configure [options] + ./configure [options] This will check the configuration of your OS, and create the include file config.h, as well as the various Makefiles. @@ -25,17 +25,25 @@ need an ANSI C compiler such as gcc. most interest are listed in a section below. To see the list of all available options, you can run - sh configure --help + ./configure --help 2) Look through the user configuration section at the beginning - of the generated include file `config.h'. All system-specific - definitions should be sensed automatically now, but you may + of the generated include file `config.h'. You may want to customize some #defines for your environment. 3) make 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. + 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. @@ -162,14 +170,15 @@ Options for configure --enable-debug Enable debugging support. ---enable-masquerade[='draft_from[ mmailid[ username_extension]]'] +--enable-masquerade[='draft_from mmailid username_extension'] If this option is not specified, 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. - Any subset of "draft_from mmailid username_extension" may be given. As a - shortcut, simply doing `configure --enable-masquerade' will enable all 3. + The above usage shows all three masquerade options being specified, but any + subset of the three may be specified. If you do want to enable all three, + you can simply use `configure --enable-masquerade' as a shortcut. See the mh-tailor(5) man page for full documentation of "masquerade:". @@ -179,6 +188,9 @@ Options for configure --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 @@ -191,44 +203,74 @@ Options for configure Specify the location of Hesiod. --with-krb4=PREFIX - Specify the location of Kerberos V4 for KPOP support. You will also need - to specify the option `--enable-pop'. 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. + 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", + "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 command `more' and use it as the default. --with-smtpservers='SMTPSERVER1[ SMTPSERVER2...]' (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, however, so that each time - nmh is reinstalled, the right value will be there. + 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, + 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 "servers:". -- The nmh team -nmh-workers@mhost.com +nmh-workers@nongnu.org