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authorJeff Bailey <jbailey@gnu.org>1999-09-11 22:58:21 +0000
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-This is the GNU Mailutils package
-=================================
-
-* Introduction
-==============
-
-This package contains a series of useful mail clients, servers, and
-libraries. These are the primary mail utilities of the GNU system.
-
-Specifically, this package contains a POP3 server, an IMAP4 server,
-and a Sieve mail filter. It also provides a POSIX `mailx' client,
-and a collection of other tools.
-
-The central library is capable of reading mail from an `mbox' mailbox,
-as well as off of local or remote POP3 and IMAP4 servers.
-
-You're welcome to use this library in your own programs, please see
-the examples subdirectory or these other applications. All libraries
-are licensed using the GNU LGPL. The documentation is licensed under
-the GNU FDL, and everything else is licensed using the GNU GPL. The
-complete texts of the corresponding licences are included in the files
-COPYING.LESSER, COPYING and doc/texinfo/COPYING.DOC.
-
-This software is part of the GNU Project and belongs to the Free
-Software Foundation.
-
-* Why use this package?
-=======================
-
-This package started off to try and handle large mailbox files more
-gracefully then current POP3 servers did. While it handles this task,
-it also allows you to support a variety of different mailbox formats
-without any real effort on your part. Also, if a new format is added
-at a later date, your program will support that new format
-automatically as soon as it is compiled against the new library.
-
-This package is also released as part of Debian, so you should expect
-it to compile cleanly on all the platforms supported there.
-
-* How to install
-================
-
-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.
-
- --without-fribidi
-
- Do not include fribidi support, even if libfribidi is present.
-
- --with-sql=MODLIST
-
- Enable support for authentication using given SQL modules.
- MODLIST is a colon-separated list of SQL modules to use.
- Available modules are 'mysql', 'postgres' and 'odbc'. E.g.,
- to enable all modules:
-
- --with-sql=mysql:postgres:odbc
-
-
- Note that depending on how your SQL systems are installed,
- this may require adding appropriate directories to the library
- and include paths, e.g.
-
-
- ./configure LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/mysql/lib -L/usr/local/pgsql/lib' \
- CPPFLAGS='-I/usr/local/mysql/include \
- -I/usr/local/pgsql/include'
- --with-sql=mysql:postgres
-
-
- --with-mysql
-
- Equivalent to --with-sql=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 LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/mysql/lib' \
- CPPFLAGS='-I/usr/local/mysql/include' --with-mysql
-
- --with-postgres
-
- Equivalent to --with-sql=postgres
-
- You may have to explicitly specify LIBS and CPPFLAGS (see
- above).
-
- --with-odbc[={odbc|iodbc}]
-
- Without arguments or with 'odbc' as its argument it is
- equivalent to --with-sql=odbc.
-
- --with-odbc=iodbc enables ODBC support via libiodbc.
-
- You may have to explicitly specify LIBS and CPPFLAGS (see
- above).
-
- --enable-mh-utils
-
- Build a suite of MH utilities. The GNU implementation of MH
- primarily aims to provide an interface between Mailutils'
- functionality and Emacs, using the mh-e module.
- For more information, refer to the TODO file in the mh
- subdirectory, and to the section `MH' in the accompanying
- documentation. To access it, run
- `info -f ./doc/texinfo/mailutils.info mh' from the Mailutils
- root directory. After installation, it will become available
- by running `info mailutils mh'.
-
- --with-mh-bindir=DIR
-
- By default the MH binaries are installed in
- ${exec_prefix}/bin/mu-mh. To change this, use --with-mh-bindir
- option. If DIR starts with '/' it is taken as an absolute
- path specification, otherwise ${prefix} is prepended to it.
-
- --with-virtual-pwddir=DIR
-
- Use DIR instead of $sysconfdir/domain as the location of
- virtual mail domain database. This option is ignored if
- --disable-virtual-domains is specified.
-
- --without-readline
-
- Build 'mail' without readline support.
-
- --with-gnutls
-
- Enable the TLS/SSL server-side encryption via GnuTLS
- (a Transport Layer Security Library) in IMAP4/POP3 daemons.
-
- --with-gsasl
-
- Enable GNU SASL support (Simple Authentication and Security
- Layer framework). IMAP4d supports this mechanism. This
- requires GSASL version 0.2.3 or newer.
-
- --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-guiledir[=DIR]
-
- Specify the directory to install guile modules to. By default
- they are installed in
-
- $(prefix)/share/mailutils/$(VERSION)/guile.
-
- The option --with-guiledir used without argument instructs
- configure script to install modules to the site-wide Guile
- directory, where it is easier to find them. This directory is
- defined as $(guile_pkgdatadir)/site where guile_pkgdatadir is
- the Guile package data directory as returned by `guile-config
- info pkgdatadir'.
-
- Otherwise, if an argument to the option is given, it specifies
- the absolute file name of the installation directory for Guile
- modules.
-
- --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. PATH is either an absolute directory name, or a
- valid `mbox' URL in the form:
-
- mbox:path;type=TYPE;param=N;user=
-
- This method allows you to use indexed mailspools. For servers
- with a really big number of users this may provide a
- significant speedup in opening the mailbox.
-
- TYPE is one of:
- hash -- The user's mailbox is kept in a subdirectory
- whose name is determined by hashing first
- N characters of the user name. There are
- 256 subdirectories named from 00 through FF.
- index -- The user's mailbox is located PARAM directories
- down the `path'. The directories are named
- after the first N letters of a login name.
- For example, when N=2 the mailbox for
- user `smith' is `/var/spool/mail/s/m/smith'.
- rev-index -- Same as above, except that the last letters
- are used, thus the mailbox for `smith' will
- be /var/spool/mail/h/t/smith. This may provide
- a better average distribution than the `index'
- method.
-
- --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)
-
- --disable-nls
-
- Do not use Native Language Support
-
- --with-included-gettext
-
- Use the GNU gettext library included in the Mailutils distribution.
-
- --with-included-argp
-
- Use the argp library supplied with the package, instead of the
- one from your libc. You will need this option if the libc library
- on your system was compiled without NLS support.
-
-The following options enable DBM support in Mailutils. DBM support is
-necessary if you wish to use APOP authentication in POP3 daemon or to
-use DBM-based mail box quotas with mail.local.
-
- --with-gdbm
-
- Use GNU DBM
-
- --with-berkeley-db[=ARG]
-
- Use Berkeley DB. If ARG is not specified, configure will
- attempt to autodetect the database version to use. Unless ARG
- begins with a digit, it is taken as a library name, without
- the `lib' prefix and library type suffix, so that specifying
-
- --with-berkeley-db=db-3.1
-
- instructs configure to use library libdb-3.1.so (or
- libdb-3.1.a).
- Otherwise, if ARG begins with a digit, it is understood as a
- library version number to link to. In this case configure
- assumes a Slackware-like installation layout. Thus, using
-
- --with-berkeley-db=3.1
-
- tells configure to use library libdb-3.1.so (or libdb-3.1.a)
- and header file /usr/include/db31/db.h
-
- --with-ndbm
-
- Use NDBM
-
- Only one dbm option may be specified. Which one depends on
- the flavor of DBM you are using. GDBM is most common for GNU
- system.
-
-Use following options to disable support for particular protocols or
-features:
-
- --disable-imap Disables IMAP protocol support.
- --disable-pop Disables POP protocol support.
- --disable-smtp Disables support for SMTP mailer. With this
- option `mail.remote' is not built.
- --disable-sendmail Disables support for `Sendmail' mailer.
- --disable-mh Disables support for MH mailbox format.
- --disable-virtual-domains
- Disables support for authentication using
- virtual mail domains.
-
-Several environment variables affect the configuration. Currently,
-the only mailutils-specific variable is DEFAULT_CUPS_CONFDIR. It
-sets the location of CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) configuration
-directory, which is needed for `mimeview' utility. By default, this
-location is $sysconfdir/cups. On most sites, however, it may be
-reasonable to set it to /etc/cups, e.g.:
-
- ./configure DEFAULT_CUPS_CONFDIR=/etc/cups ...
-
-
-* 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. Another way to subscribe is
-by visiting http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-mailutils.
-
-* Copyright information:
-
-Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 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.
-
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