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author | Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua> | 2002-09-02 14:29:26 +0000 |
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committer | Sergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua> | 2002-09-02 14:29:26 +0000 |
commit | 6cd55aaaa4847bfc2a25be5cec5dfba9b86a5083 (patch) | |
tree | 80973078f5c47837a1ba8b8c0871b79c1927c64a | |
parent | 6fd7a27485aae4338c0d4c20af682757b4e1fbfb (diff) | |
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Updated.
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-rw-r--r-- | README | 94 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | TODO | 28 |
3 files changed, 127 insertions, 25 deletions
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +GNU mailutils NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2002-09-02 +Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +See the end for copying conditions. + +Please send mailutils bug reports to <bug-mailutils@gnu.org>. + +Version 0.1: + +The first release. + + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +Copyright information: + +Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + + Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies + of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the + copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, + thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn. + + Permission is granted to distribute modified versions + of this document, or of portions of it, + under the above conditions, provided also that they + carry prominent notices stating who last changed them. + +Local variables: +mode: outline +paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" +end: @@ -36,7 +36,95 @@ it to compile cleanly on all the platforms supported there. How to install ============== -Please see the INSTALL file in this directory. +Please see the INSTALL file in this directory for the generic instructions +on how to use configure. The following short summary describes the mailutils- +specific configuration options: + + --enable-debug + + Compile mailutils with debugging support. This disables compiler + optimizations and adds debugging information to the binaries. + + --disable-pam + + Do not build PAM support. By default configure will build PAM support + if the host system supports it. Use this option to suppress this + behaviour. + + --disable-pthread + + Do not build thread-safe libraries. + + --enable-mysql + + Enable support for authentication via MySQL. Note that depending + on how your MySQL system is installed, this may require adding + appropriate directories to the library and include paths, e.g.: + + ./configure LIBS='-L/usr/local/mysql/lib' \ + CPPLAGS='-I/usr/local/mysql/include' --enable-mysql + + --enable-virtual-domains + + Enable support for authentication using virtual mail domains. + Note that this is also needed if you wish to run testsuites for + pop3d and imap4d daemons. The following option controls where + exactly the domain database should be located: + + --with-virtual-pwddir=DIR + + Use DIR instead of $sysconfdir/domain as the location of + virtual mail domain database. + + --without-readline + + Build 'mail' without readline support. + + --with-gssapi + + Enable GSSAPI authentication. For this to work, you will have + to have Kerberos V installed on your system. + + --without-guile + + Do not build guile interface library. + + --with-mail-rc=FILE + + Set the location of the system-wide configuration file for mail + utility. FILE must be an absolute filename specification. Default + is $sysconfdir/mail.rc + + --with-mail-spool=PATH + + Override the location of the mailspool. The default value depends + on the system. Usually it is either /var/spool/mail or /var/mail. + + --with-gdbm + + Use GDBM + + --with-db2 + + Use Berkeley DB + + --with-ndbm + + Use NDBM + + --with-dbm + + Use old DBM + + --with-log-facility=facility + + Enable logging to the given syslog facility. Default is `mail'. + + --without-included-regex + + Don't compile regex; this is the default on systems with version + 2 of the GNU C library (use with caution on other systems) + Where to report BUGS ==================== @@ -44,4 +132,6 @@ Where to report BUGS Please report any bugs to <bug-mailutils@gnu.org>. We encourage sysadmins who will be using this package to subscribe to this list by sending an email to <bug-mailutils-request@gnu.org> with the word `subscribe' in the body of -the message. +the message. Another way to subscribe is by visiting +http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-mailutils. + @@ -5,25 +5,20 @@ [docs] -- review examples in docs. many don't build. I think there needs to be a way - of building the examples, and then converting them to texinfo, its the - only way we'll always know they aren't garbage. Broken examples: stream.texi - [mailbox or mailbox2] IMPORTANT: - There is currently a rewrite of the mailbox call mailbox2 to address + There is currently a rewrite of the mailbox called mailbox2 to address some of the flaws of the old version. - generalized search interface [mail.local] -- integrate sieve - - can it append to an imap mailbox? [pop3] + - SSL support - pop3d_readline - should this use select(), avoid the race condition, @@ -35,21 +30,8 @@ IMPORTANT: - support of mailspools in user home directory, particularly when they are in maildir format (I think qmail does this). -- why do we do the uw-imapd thing of showing all files in the users - home as if they were a mailbox? I figure there should be an option to say - where your mail folder is, so that if you say - - --mail-folder=~ - - it will be uw-imapd compatible, but if you say - - --mail-folder=~/Mail - - all your IMAP folders will be under ~/Mail. - - Except mbox. - -- Check interaction with imap clients. +- Check interaction with various imap clients. Currently tested with: + mail (from mailutils itself), mutt, pine, netscape, mozilla. - Better support of multi-access mailbox @@ -59,7 +41,7 @@ IMPORTANT: [mail] -- Add MIME support. +- Add support for /etc/mailcap. [mailbox] |