source: basicnet/mailnews/nail.xml@ 939cf0da

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

  <!ENTITY nail-download-http "http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nail/nail-&nail-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY nail-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY nail-size          "266 KB">
  <!ENTITY nail-buildsize     "2.9 MB">
  <!ENTITY nail-time          "0.05 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="nail-package" xreflabel="Nail-&nail-version;">
<sect1info>
<othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
<date>$Date$</date>
</sect1info>
<?dbhtml filename="nail.html"?>
<title>Nail-&nail-version;</title>
<indexterm zone="nail-package">
<primary sortas="a-Nail-package">Nail</primary></indexterm>

<sect2>
<title>Introduction to <application>Nail</application></title>

<para>The <application>Nail</application> package contains 
<command>nail</command>, a command-line Mail User Agent derived from Berkeley 
Mail which is intended to provide the functionality of the POSIX 
<command>mailx</command> command with additional support for 
<acronym>MIME</acronym> messages, <acronym>IMAP</acronym> (including caching), 
<acronym>POP</acronym>3, <acronym>SMTP</acronym>, S/<acronym>MIME</acronym>, 
message threading/sorting, scoring, and filtering. 
<application>Nail</application> is especially useful for writing scripts 
and batch processing.</para>

<sect3><title>Package information</title>
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink
url="&nail-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
url="&nail-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download size: &nail-size;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated disk space required:
&nail-buildsize;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated build time:
&nail-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
</sect3>

<sect3><title><application>Nail</application> dependencies</title>
<sect4><title>Optional</title>
<para><xref linkend="openssl-package"/> or 
Mozilla <acronym>NSS</acronym> (from 
<xref linkend="mozilla"/> or 
<xref linkend="firefox"/> or 
<xref linkend="thunderbird"/>), 
<xref linkend="heimdal"/> or <xref linkend="mitkrb"/> (for 
<acronym>IMAP</acronym> GSSAPI authentication) and 
<ulink url="../server/mail.html">MTA</ulink></para></sect4>
</sect3>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Installation of <application>Nail</application></title>

<para>Install <application>Nail</application> by running the following 
commands.</para>

<screen><userinput><command>make SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail &amp;&amp;
make PREFIX=/usr install UCBINSTALL=/usr/bin/install &amp;&amp;
ln -sf nail /usr/bin/mail &amp;&amp;
ln -sf nail /usr/bin/mailx</command></userinput></screen>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Command explanations</title>

<para><command>make SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail</command>: This changes the
default <acronym>MTA</acronym> path of <command>/usr/lib/sendmail</command>.
</para>

<para><command>make PREFIX=/usr install UCBINSTALL=/usr/bin/install</command>: 
This changes the default installation path of 
<filename class='directory'>/usr/local</filename> and the default 
<command>install</command> command path of 
<filename class='directory'>/usr/ucb</filename>.</para>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Configuring <application>Nail</application></title>

<sect3 id="nail-config"><title>Config files</title>
<para><filename>/etc/nail.rc</filename>, <filename>~/.mailrc</filename> and 
<filename>~/.nailrc</filename></para>
<indexterm zone="nail-package nail-config">
<primary sortas="e-etc-nail.rc">/etc/nail.rc</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm zone="nail-package nail-config">
<primary sortas="e-AA.mailrc">~/.mailrc</primary></indexterm>
<indexterm zone="nail-package nail-config">
<primary sortas="e-AA.nailrc">~/.nailrc</primary></indexterm>
</sect3>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Contents</title>

<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
<segtitle>Symbolic Links</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>nail</seg>
<seg>mail and mailx</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>

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

<varlistentry id="nail">
<term><command>nail</command></term>
<listitem><para>is a command-line mail user agent compatible with the 
<command>mail</command> command found on commercial Unix versions.</para>
<indexterm zone="nail-package nail">
<primary sortas="b-nail">nail</primary></indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry id="nail-mail">
<term><command>mail</command></term>
<listitem><para>is a symbolic link to <command>nail</command>.</para>
<indexterm zone="nail-package nail-mail">
<primary sortas="g-mail-nail">mail</primary></indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry id="nail-mailx">
<term><command>mailx</command></term>
<listitem><para>is a symbolic link to <command>nail</command>.</para>
<indexterm zone="nail-package nail-mailx">
<primary sortas="g-mailx-nail">mailx</primary></indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

</sect2>

</sect1>