source: basicnet/mailnews/mutt.xml@ 889c7c3f

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY mutt-download-http "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mutt/mutt-&mutt-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY mutt-download-ftp  "ftp://ftp.mutt.org/mutt/devel/mutt-&mutt-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY mutt-md5sum        "10eff7024dbb7ce1f773d688a69ea9db">
  <!ENTITY mutt-size          "3.4 MB">
  <!ENTITY mutt-buildsize     "25.7 MB">
  <!ENTITY mutt-time          "0.4 SBU">
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<sect1 id="mutt" xreflabel="Mutt-&mutt-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="mutt.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Mutt-&mutt-version;</title>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Mutt</title>

    <para>The <application>Mutt</application> package contains a Mail User
    Agent. This is useful for reading, writing, replying to, saving, and
    deleting your email.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&mutt-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&mutt-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &mutt-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &mutt-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &mutt-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &mutt-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Mutt Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="gnupg"/>,
    <xref linkend="openssl"/> or
    <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/">GnuTLS</ulink> (requires
    <xref linkend="libgcrypt"/>),
    an <xref linkend="server-mail"/> (that provides a <command>sendmail</command> command),
    <xref linkend="aspell"/>,
    <xref linkend="mitkrb"/> or <xref linkend="heimdal"/>,
    <xref linkend="cyrus-sasl"/>,
    <xref linkend="slang"/>,
    <xref linkend="libidn"/>,
    <xref linkend="gdbm"/>, and
    <!-- <xref linkend="db"/> -->
    <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/gdb.html">GDB</ulink></para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (To Regenerate HTML
    Documentation)</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="libxslt"/> and either
    <xref linkend="lynx"/>,
    <xref linkend="w3m"/> or
    <ulink url="http://elinks.or.cz/">ELinks</ulink></para>

    <!-- Untested PDF generation with jadetex/openjade/opensp
    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (To Generate PDF Manual)</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="jadetex"/></para>
    -->

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/mutt"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Mutt</title>

    <note>
      <para>This version of <application>Mutt</application> is a development
      release.  The BLFS staff has determined that it provides a stable
      program and fixes two issues in the current stable version of
      <application>Mutt</application>: a segmentation fault that occurs under
      certain conditions and a compilation problem when building with
      <application>GCC-&gcc-version;</application>.  To find the current
      stable release, please refer to the
      <ulink url="http://www.mutt.org/">Mutt home page</ulink>.</para>
    </note>

    <caution>
    <para>If you choose to link <application>Mutt</application> against
    <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/">GnuTLS</ulink>,
    you won't have SSL client certificate support. Specifically the
    <envar>ssl_client_cert</envar> configuration variable is recognized
    as invalid. That means you will lose the ability to use
    <command>mutt</command> via SMTP over TLS or in the case when 
    a client certification is required for authentication on an IMAP server.
    For these reasons it is recommended to link <application>Mutt</application>
    against <xref linkend="openssl"/> if you want SSL/TLS support.</para>
    </caution>

    <para><application>Mutt</application> requires a group named
    <systemitem class="groupname">mail</systemitem>.  You can
    add this group, if it does not exist, with this command:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -g 34 mail</userinput></screen>

    <para>If you did not install an MTA, such as <xref linkend="postfix"/> or
    <xref linkend="sendmail"/>, you need to modify the ownership of
    <filename class="directory">/var/mail</filename> with this command:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>chgrp -v mail /var/mail</userinput></screen>

    <para>Install <application>Mutt</application> by running the following
    commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
    --with-docdir=/usr/share/doc/mutt-&mutt-version; \
    --enable-pop --enable-imap &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>If you have the necessary dependencies installed and would like
    to rebuild the HTML documentation, issue the following commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>make -C doc clean &amp;&amp;
make -C doc</userinput></screen>

    <!-- Untested PDF generation
    <para>To generate the PDF manual with <xref linkend="jadetex"/>, run
    the following commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>make -C doc manual.pdf</userinput></screen>
    -->

    <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role='root'><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

    <!-- Untested PDF generation
    <para>If you generated the PDF manual, install it and the source TeX
    file as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role='root'><userinput>install -v -m644 doc/manual.{pdf,tex} \
    /usr/share/doc/mutt-&mutt-version;</userinput></screen>
    -->

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para><parameter>--enable-pop</parameter>: This switch enables
    POP3 support.</para>

    <para><parameter>--enable-imap</parameter>: This switch enables
    IMAP support.</para>

    <para><parameter>--enable-smtp</parameter>: This switch enables
    SMTP relay support.</para>

    <para><parameter>--with-ssl</parameter>: This parameter adds SSL/TLS
    support from <xref linkend="openssl"/> in POP3/IMAP/SMTP if they are
    enabled.</para>

    <para><parameter>--with-sasl</parameter>: This parameter adds
    authentication support from <xref linkend="cyrus-sasl"/> in POP3/IMAP/SMTP
    if they are enabled. Depending on the server configuration, this may not
    be needed for POP3 or IMAP. However, it is needed for SMTP
    authentication.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring Mutt</title>

    <sect3 id="mutt-config">
      <title>Config Files</title>

      <para><filename>/etc/Muttrc</filename>, <filename>~/.muttrc</filename>,
      <filename>/etc/mime.types</filename>, <filename>~/.mime.types</filename></para>

      <indexterm zone="mutt mutt-config">
        <primary sortas="e-etc-Muttrc">/etc/Muttrc</primary>
      </indexterm>

      <indexterm zone="mutt mutt-config">
        <primary sortas="e-AA.muttrc">~/.muttrc</primary>
      </indexterm>

      <indexterm zone="mutt mutt-config">
        <primary sortas="e-etc-mime.types">/etc/mime.types</primary>
      </indexterm>

      <indexterm zone="mutt mutt-config">
        <primary sortas="e-AA.mime.types">~/.mime.types</primary>
      </indexterm>

    </sect3>

    <sect3>
      <title>Configuration Information</title>

      <para>No changes in these files are necessary to begin using
      <application>Mutt</application>.  When you are ready to make changes, the
      man page for <filename>muttrc</filename> is a good starting place.</para>

      <para>In order to utilize <application>GnuPG</application>, use the following
      command:</para>

<screen><userinput>cat /usr/share/doc/mutt-&mutt-version;/samples/gpg.rc &gt;&gt; ~/.muttrc</userinput></screen>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>flea, mutt, mutt_dotlock, muttbug, pgpewrap, pgpring, and
        smime_keys</seg>
        <seg>None</seg>
        <seg>/usr/share/doc/mutt-&mutt-version;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="flea">
        <term><command>flea</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a bug submitter for <application>Mutt</application>.</para>
          <indexterm zone="mutt flea">
            <primary sortas="b-flea">flea</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="mutt-prog">
        <term><command>mutt</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a Mail User Agent (MUA) which enables you to read, write
          and delete your email.</para>
          <indexterm zone="mutt mutt-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-mutt">mutt</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="mutt_dotlock">
        <term><command>mutt_dotlock</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>implements the mail spool file lock.</para>
          <indexterm zone="mutt mutt_dotlock">
            <primary sortas="b-mutt_dotlock">mutt_dotlock</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="muttbug">
        <term><command>muttbug</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a script that executes <command>flea</command>.</para>
          <indexterm zone="mutt muttbug">
            <primary sortas="c-muttbug">muttbug</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pgpewrap">
        <term><command>pgpewrap</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>prepares a command line for the <xref linkend="gnupg"/>
          utilities.</para>
          <indexterm zone="mutt pgpewrap">
            <primary sortas="c-pgpewrap">pgpewrap</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="pgpring">
        <term><command>pgpring</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a key ring dumper for <ulink
          url="http://www.pgp.com/">PGP</ulink>. It is not needed for
          <xref linkend="gnupg"/>.</para>
          <indexterm zone="mutt pgpring">
            <primary sortas="c-pgpring">pgpring</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="smime_keys">
        <term><command>smime_keys</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>manages a keystore for S/MIME certificates.</para>
          <indexterm zone="mutt smime_keys">
            <primary sortas="c-smime_keys">smime_keys</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>