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[6732c094] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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[bfe245f] | 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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[13bc31d] | 7 | <!-- upstream is apparently still using CVS at sourceforge,
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| 8 | but not making tarballs. fedora have a script using CVS, but
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| 9 | debian keep a tarball -->
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[c6b192c] | 10 | <!ENTITY mailx-download-http "https://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/heirloom-mailx/heirloom-mailx_&mailx-version;.orig.tar.gz">
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[8044beb] | 11 | <!ENTITY mailx-download-ftp " ">
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[13bc31d] | 12 | <!ENTITY mailx-md5sum "29a6033ef1412824d02eb9d9213cb1f2">
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| 13 | <!ENTITY mailx-size "317 KB">
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| 14 | <!ENTITY mailx-buildsize "3.2 MB">
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[058bfd80] | 15 | <!ENTITY mailx-time "less than 0.1 SBU">
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[bfe245f] | 16 | ]>
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| 17 |
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[a027d7d3] | 18 | <sect1 id="mailx" xreflabel="mailx-&mailx-version;">
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[058bfd80] | 19 | <?dbhtml filename="mailx.html"?>
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[e6f1fd6] | 20 |
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| 21 |
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[a027d7d3] | 22 | <title>mailx-&mailx-version;</title>
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[e6f1fd6] | 23 |
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[058bfd80] | 24 | <indexterm zone="mailx">
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| 25 | <primary sortas="a-Heirloom-mailx">Heirloom mailx</primary>
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[24acf2f2] | 26 | </indexterm>
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[e6f1fd6] | 27 |
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[24acf2f2] | 28 | <sect2 role="package">
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[058bfd80] | 29 | <title>Introduction to Heirloom mailx</title>
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[e6f1fd6] | 30 |
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[7c56ece] | 31 | <para>
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| 32 | The <application>Heirloom mailx</application> package (formerly
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| 33 | known as the <application>Nail</application> package) contains
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| 34 | <command>mailx</command>, a command-line Mail User Agent derived from
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| 35 | Berkeley Mail. It is intended to provide the functionality of the POSIX
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| 36 | <command>mailx</command> command with additional support for MIME
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| 37 | messages, IMAP (including caching), POP3, SMTP, S/MIME, message
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| 38 | threading/sorting, scoring, and filtering. <application>Heirloom
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| 39 | mailx</application> is especially useful for writing scripts and batch
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| 40 | processing.
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| 41 | </para>
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[e6f1fd6] | 42 |
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[d0caf17a] | 43 | &lfs113_checked;
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[5f04edc] | 44 |
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[24acf2f2] | 45 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 46 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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| 47 | <listitem>
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[7c56ece] | 48 | <para>
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| 49 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&mailx-download-http;"/>
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| 50 | </para>
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[24acf2f2] | 51 | </listitem>
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| 52 | <listitem>
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[7c56ece] | 53 | <para>
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| 54 | Download (FTP): <ulink url="&mailx-download-ftp;"/>
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| 55 | </para>
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[24acf2f2] | 56 | </listitem>
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| 57 | <listitem>
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[7c56ece] | 58 | <para>
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| 59 | Download MD5 sum: &mailx-md5sum;
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| 60 | </para>
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[24acf2f2] | 61 | </listitem>
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[7c56ece] | 62 | <listitem>
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| 63 | <para>
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| 64 | Download size: &mailx-size;
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| 65 | </para>
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[24acf2f2] | 66 | </listitem>
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| 67 | <listitem>
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[7c56ece] | 68 | <para>
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| 69 | Estimated disk space required: &mailx-buildsize;
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| 70 | </para>
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[24acf2f2] | 71 | </listitem>
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| 72 | <listitem>
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[7c56ece] | 73 | <para>
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| 74 | Estimated build time: &mailx-time;
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| 75 | </para>
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[24acf2f2] | 76 | </listitem>
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| 77 | </itemizedlist>
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[e6f1fd6] | 78 |
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[a1813d08] | 79 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
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| 80 | <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
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| 81 | <listitem>
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[7c56ece] | 82 | <para>
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| 83 | Required patch: <ulink
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| 84 | url="&patch-root;/heirloom-mailx-&mailx-version;-fixes-1.patch"/>
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[13bc31d] | 85 | </para>
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[a1813d08] | 86 | </listitem>
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| 87 | </itemizedlist>
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| 88 |
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[058bfd80] | 89 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Heirloom mailx Dependencies</bridgehead>
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[e6f1fd6] | 90 |
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[24acf2f2] | 91 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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[eff6c3a8] | 92 | <para role="optional">
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| 93 | <!-- <xref linkend="openssl10"/> or -->
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| 94 | <xref linkend="nss"/>,
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| 95 | <xref linkend="mitkrb"/> (for IMAP GSSAPI authentication), and an
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| 96 | <xref linkend="server-mail"/>
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| 97 | </para>
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[e6f1fd6] | 98 |
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[061ec9d] | 99 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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| 100 | <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/mailx"/></para>
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| 101 |
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[24acf2f2] | 102 | </sect2>
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[e6f1fd6] | 103 |
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[24acf2f2] | 104 | <sect2 role="installation">
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[058bfd80] | 105 | <title>Installation of Heirloom mailx</title>
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[e6f1fd6] | 106 |
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[13bc31d] | 107 | <!-- see r12697 for explanation, and still used by fedora even though it often
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| 108 | does work with a parallel make -->
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[2e4388d] | 109 | <note>
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| 110 | <para>
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| 111 | This package does not support parallel build.
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| 112 | </para>
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| 113 | </note>
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| 114 |
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[7c56ece] | 115 | <para>
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| 116 | Install <application>Heirloom mailx</application> by running the
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| 117 | following commands.
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| 118 | </para>
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[e6f1fd6] | 119 |
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[13bc31d] | 120 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../heirloom-mailx-&mailx-version;-fixes-1.patch &&
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[2791835] | 121 |
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[a4f37269] | 122 | sed 's@<openssl@<openssl-1.0/openssl@' \
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[2791835] | 123 | -i openssl.c fio.c makeconfig &&
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| 124 |
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[fb8f00e] | 125 | make -j1 LDFLAGS+="-L /usr/lib/openssl/" \
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| 126 | SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail</userinput></screen>
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[e6f1fd6] | 127 |
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[7c56ece] | 128 | <para>
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| 129 | This package does not come with a test suite.
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| 130 | </para>
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[aee33b88] | 131 |
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[7c56ece] | 132 | <para>
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| 133 | Now, as the <systemitem class='username'>root</systemitem> user:
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| 134 | </para>
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[e6f1fd6] | 135 |
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[058bfd80] | 136 | <screen role='root'><userinput>make PREFIX=/usr UCBINSTALL=/usr/bin/install install &&
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[2791835] | 137 |
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[058bfd80] | 138 | ln -v -sf mailx /usr/bin/mail &&
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| 139 | ln -v -sf mailx /usr/bin/nail &&
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[2791835] | 140 |
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| 141 | install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/heirloom-mailx-&mailx-version; &&
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[13bc31d] | 142 | install -v -m644 README /usr/share/doc/heirloom-mailx-&mailx-version;</userinput></screen>
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[e6f1fd6] | 143 |
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[24acf2f2] | 144 | </sect2>
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[e6f1fd6] | 145 |
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[24acf2f2] | 146 | <sect2 role="commands">
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[e3353b3] | 147 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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[e6f1fd6] | 148 |
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[7c56ece] | 149 | <para>
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| 150 | <command>make SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail</command>: This changes the
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| 151 | default MTA path of <command>/usr/lib/sendmail</command>.
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| 152 | </para>
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[e6f1fd6] | 153 |
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[7c56ece] | 154 | <para>
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| 155 | <command>make PREFIX=/usr UCBINSTALL=/usr/bin/install
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| 156 | install</command>: This changes the default installation path of
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| 157 | <filename class='directory'>/usr/local</filename> and the default
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| 158 | <command>install</command> command path of
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| 159 | <filename class='directory'>/usr/ucb</filename>.
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| 160 | </para>
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[e6f1fd6] | 161 |
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[24acf2f2] | 162 | </sect2>
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[e6f1fd6] | 163 |
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[24acf2f2] | 164 | <sect2 role="configuration">
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[058bfd80] | 165 | <title>Configuring Heirloom mailx</title>
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[e6f1fd6] | 166 |
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[058bfd80] | 167 | <sect3 id="mailx-config">
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[e3353b3] | 168 | <title>Config Files</title>
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[e6f1fd6] | 169 |
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[7c56ece] | 170 | <para>
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[aa48c25f] | 171 | <!-- ~/.nailrc seems not to be supported anymore
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[7c56ece] | 172 | <filename>/etc/nail.rc</filename>, <filename>~/.mailrc</filename>
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| 173 | and <filename>~/.nailrc</filename>
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[aa48c25f] | 174 | -->
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| 175 | <filename>/etc/nail.rc</filename> and <filename>~/.mailrc</filename>
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[7c56ece] | 176 | </para>
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[e6f1fd6] | 177 |
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[058bfd80] | 178 | <indexterm zone="mailx mailx-config">
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[24acf2f2] | 179 | <primary sortas="e-etc-nail.rc">/etc/nail.rc</primary>
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| 180 | </indexterm>
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[e6f1fd6] | 181 |
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[058bfd80] | 182 | <indexterm zone="mailx mailx-config">
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[24acf2f2] | 183 | <primary sortas="e-AA.mailrc">~/.mailrc</primary>
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| 184 | </indexterm>
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[aa48c25f] | 185 | <!--
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[058bfd80] | 186 | <indexterm zone="mailx mailx-config">
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[24acf2f2] | 187 | <primary sortas="e-AA.nailrc">~/.nailrc</primary>
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| 188 | </indexterm>
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[aa48c25f] | 189 | -->
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| 190 | </sect3>
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| 191 |
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| 192 | <sect3>
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| 193 | <title>Configuration Information</title>
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| 194 |
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| 195 | <para>
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| 196 | For displaying mails, <application>mailx</application>
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| 197 | uses a pager program. Since the default of <command>pg</command>
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| 198 | is not available on a LFS system, its required to
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| 199 | specify which pager is to use. By default, there is
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| 200 | <command>more</command> and the more comfortable
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| 201 | <command>less</command> installed. If the
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| 202 | variable PAGER is not set in <filename>/etc/profile</filename>
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| 203 | or <filename>~/.bash_profile</filename>, or if it
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| 204 | should be another pager just for reading mails, it can be
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| 205 | set system wide in <filename>/etc/nail.rc</filename>:
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| 206 | </para>
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| 207 |
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[22d849a] | 208 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>echo "set PAGER=<replaceable><more|less></replaceable>" >> /etc/nail.rc</userinput></screen>
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[aa48c25f] | 209 |
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| 210 | <para>or individually for the actual user in <filename>~/.mailrc</filename>:</para>
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| 211 |
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[22d849a] | 212 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>echo "set PAGER=<replaceable><more|less></replaceable>" >> ~/.mailrc</userinput></screen>
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[aa48c25f] | 213 |
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| 214 | <para>
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| 215 | Other interesting options to set in the config files might
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[54d58907] | 216 | be EDITOR and MAILDIR.
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[aa48c25f] | 217 | </para>
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| 218 |
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| 219 | <para>
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| 220 | If not set in the environment for other packages, the
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| 221 | default editor can be set by:
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| 222 | </para>
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| 223 |
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[22d849a] | 224 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>echo "set EDITOR=<replaceable><vim|nano|...></replaceable>" >> /etc/nail.rc</userinput></screen>
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[aa48c25f] | 225 |
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| 226 | <para>
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| 227 | Depending on which kind of <xref linkend="server-mail"/> is
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| 228 | installed, it might be required to set the MAILDIR variable
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| 229 | so <application>mailx</application> is able to find the mails:
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| 230 | </para>
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| 231 |
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[22d849a] | 232 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>echo "set MAILDIR=Maildir" >> /etc/nail.rc</userinput></screen>
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[e6f1fd6] | 233 |
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[24acf2f2] | 234 | </sect3>
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[e6f1fd6] | 235 |
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[24acf2f2] | 236 | </sect2>
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[e6f1fd6] | 237 |
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[24acf2f2] | 238 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 239 | <title>Contents</title>
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[e6f1fd6] | 240 |
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[24acf2f2] | 241 | <segmentedlist>
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| 242 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 243 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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| 244 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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[e6f1fd6] | 245 |
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[24acf2f2] | 246 | <seglistitem>
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| 247 | <seg>mail, mailx and nail</seg>
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| 248 | <seg>None</seg>
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| 249 | <seg>None</seg>
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| 250 | </seglistitem>
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| 251 | </segmentedlist>
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[e6f1fd6] | 252 |
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[24acf2f2] | 253 | <variablelist>
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| 254 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 255 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 256 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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[e6f1fd6] | 257 |
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[058bfd80] | 258 | <varlistentry id="mailx-prog">
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| 259 | <term><command>mailx</command></term>
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[24acf2f2] | 260 | <listitem>
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[7c56ece] | 261 | <para>
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| 262 | is a command-line mail user agent compatible with the
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| 263 | <command>mailx</command> command found on commercial Unix
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[4c24eb0a] | 264 | versions
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[7c56ece] | 265 | </para>
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[058bfd80] | 266 | <indexterm zone="mailx mailx-prog">
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| 267 | <primary sortas="b-mailx">mailx</primary>
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[24acf2f2] | 268 | </indexterm>
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| 269 | </listitem>
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| 270 | </varlistentry>
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[e6f1fd6] | 271 |
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[058bfd80] | 272 | <varlistentry id="mail-mailx">
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[24acf2f2] | 273 | <term><command>mail</command></term>
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| 274 | <listitem>
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[7c56ece] | 275 | <para>
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[4c24eb0a] | 276 | is a symbolic link to <command>mailx</command>
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[7c56ece] | 277 | </para>
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[058bfd80] | 278 | <indexterm zone="mailx mail-mailx">
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[b960e3ec] | 279 | <primary sortas="b-mail">mail</primary>
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[24acf2f2] | 280 | </indexterm>
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| 281 | </listitem>
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| 282 | </varlistentry>
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[e6f1fd6] | 283 |
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[058bfd80] | 284 | <varlistentry id="nail-mailx">
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| 285 | <term><command>nail</command></term>
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[24acf2f2] | 286 | <listitem>
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[7c56ece] | 287 | <para>
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[4c24eb0a] | 288 | is a symbolic link to <command>mailx</command>
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[7c56ece] | 289 | </para>
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[058bfd80] | 290 | <indexterm zone="mailx nail-mailx">
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[b960e3ec] | 291 | <primary sortas="b-nail">nail</primary>
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[24acf2f2] | 292 | </indexterm>
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| 293 | </listitem>
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| 294 | </varlistentry>
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| 295 | </variablelist>
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[e6f1fd6] | 296 |
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[24acf2f2] | 297 | </sect2>
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[e6f1fd6] | 298 |
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[768bab5] | 299 | </sect1>
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