%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ Nail-&nail-version; Nail Introduction to Nail The Nail package contains nail, a command-line Mail User Agent derived from Berkeley Mail which is intended to provide the functionality of the POSIX mailx command with additional support for MIME messages, IMAP (including caching), POP3, SMTP, S/MIME, message threading/sorting, scoring, and filtering. Nail is especially useful for writing scripts and batch processing. Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &nail-md5sum; Download size: &nail-size; Estimated disk space required: &nail-buildsize; Estimated build time: &nail-time; Nail Dependencies Optional or Mozilla NSS (from or or ), or (for IMAP GSSAPI authentication) and MTA Installation of Nail Install Nail by running the following commands. make SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail Now, as the root user: make PREFIX=/usr install UCBINSTALL=/usr/bin/install && ln -sf nail /usr/bin/mail && ln -sf nail /usr/bin/mailx Command explanations make SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail: This changes the default MTA path of /usr/lib/sendmail. make PREFIX=/usr install UCBINSTALL=/usr/bin/install: This changes the default installation path of /usr/local and the default install command path of /usr/ucb. Configuring Nail Config files /etc/nail.rc, ~/.mailrc and ~/.nailrc /etc/nail.rc ~/.mailrc ~/.nailrc Contents Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories mail, mailx and nail None None Short Descriptions nail is a command-line mail user agent compatible with the mail command found on commercial Unix versions. nail mail is a symbolic link to nail. mail mailx is a symbolic link to nail. mailx