%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ Heirloom mailx The Heirloom mailx package (formerly known as the Nail package) contains mailx, a command-line Mail User Agent derived from Berkeley Mail. It 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. Heirloom mailx is especially useful for writing scripts and batch processing. &lfs7a_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &mailx-md5sum; Download size: &mailx-size; Estimated disk space required: &mailx-buildsize; Estimated build time: &mailx-time; Additional Downloads Required patch: Heirloom mailx Dependencies Optional or , (for IMAP GSSAPI authentication), and an User Notes: This package does not support parallel build. Install Heirloom mailx by running the following commands. patch -Np1 -i ../heirloom-mailx-&mailx-version;-fixes-1.patch && make SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail -j1 This package does not come with a test suite. Now, as the root user: make PREFIX=/usr UCBINSTALL=/usr/bin/install install && ln -v -sf mailx /usr/bin/mail && ln -v -sf mailx /usr/bin/nail && install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/heirloom-mailx-&mailx-version; && install -v -m644 README /usr/share/doc/heirloom-mailx-&mailx-version; make SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail: This changes the default MTA path of /usr/lib/sendmail. make PREFIX=/usr UCBINSTALL=/usr/bin/install install: This changes the default installation path of /usr/local and the default install command path of /usr/ucb. /etc/nail.rc, ~/.mailrc and ~/.nailrc /etc/nail.rc ~/.mailrc ~/.nailrc Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories mail, mailx and nail None None Short Descriptions mailx is a command-line mail user agent compatible with the mailx command found on commercial Unix versions. mailx mail is a symbolic link to mailx. mail nail is a symbolic link to mailx. nail