source: networking/mailnews/mutt.xml@ 52f9b590

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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY mutt-download-http " ">
  <!ENTITY mutt-download-ftp  "ftp://ftp.mutt.org/pub/mutt/mutt-&mutt-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY mutt-md5sum        "2cfaabbf0c0ef74cff9af2a0a30de30d">
  <!ENTITY mutt-size          "4.1 MB">
  <!ENTITY mutt-buildsize     "39 MB (plus a further 5MB for the PDF manual)">
  <!ENTITY mutt-time          "0.3 SBU (plus a further 0.2 SBU to build the PDF manual)">
]>

<sect1 id="mutt" xreflabel="Mutt-&mutt-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="mutt.html"?>

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

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

  <indexterm zone="mutt">
    <primary sortas="a-mutt">mutt</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <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>

    &lfs82_checked;

    <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">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
      <listitem>
        <para>Required patch: <ulink
        url="&patch-root;/mutt-&mutt-version;-upstream_fixes-1.patch"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>-->

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

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="aspell"/>,
      <xref linkend="cyrus-sasl"/>,
      <xref linkend="gdb"/>,
      <xref linkend="gnupg2"/>,
      <xref linkend="gpgme"/>,
      <ulink url="http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/">libgssapi</ulink>,
      <xref linkend="libidn"/>,
      <xref linkend="mitkrb"/>,
      <ulink url="http://mixmaster.sourceforge.net/">Mixmaster</ulink>,
      an <xref linkend="server-mail"/> (that provides a <command>sendmail</command> command),
      <xref linkend="slang"/>,
      <xref linkend="gnutls"/>,
      <xref linkend="db"/> or
      <ulink url="http://fallabs.com/qdbm/">QDBM</ulink> or
      <ulink url="http://fallabs.com/tokyocabinet/">Tokyo Cabinet</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>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (To Generate PDF Manual)</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="docbook-dsssl"/>,
      <xref linkend="openjade"/>, and
      <xref linkend="texlive"/> (or <xref linkend="tl-installer"/>)
    </para>

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

  </sect2>

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

    <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 <xref linkend="server-mail"/>, 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><application>Mutt</application> will rebuild the html documentation
    if <application>libxslt</application> is present, then use that to update
    the text manual - even if none of the specified browsers are present. That
    will create an empty text file, so we will save the shipped file.
    </para>

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

<screen><userinput>cp -v doc/manual.txt{,.shipped} &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/usr                           \
            --sysconfdir=/etc                       \
            --with-docdir=/usr/share/doc/mutt-&mutt-version; \
            --with-ssl                              \
            --enable-external-dotlock               \
            --enable-pop                            \
            --enable-imap                           \
            --enable-hcache                         \
            --enable-sidebar                        &amp;&amp;
make &amp;&amp;
test -s doc/manual.txt || mv -v doc/manual.txt{.shipped,}</userinput></screen>

    <para>To generate the PDF manual with <xref linkend="texlive"/>, run
    the following command:</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>

    <para>If you generated the PDF manual, install it
    by issuing the following command as the
    <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

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

    <note>
      <para>
        If you used a DESTDIR method to only install to a temporary location as
        a regular user (as part of a package menagement process), you will need
        to run the following as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
        user after completing the real install:
      </para>

<screen role="nodump"><userinput>chown root:mail /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock &amp;&amp;
chmod -v 2755 /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock</userinput></screen>
    </note>


  </sect2>

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

    <para><parameter>--enable-external-dotlock</parameter>: In some circumstances
    the mutt-dotlock program is not created. This switch ensures it is always
    created.</para>

    <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-hcache</parameter>: This switch enables
    header caching.</para>

    <para><parameter>--enable-sidebar</parameter>: This switch enables support
    for the sidebar (a list of mailboxes). It is off by default, but can be
    turned on by <command>:set sidebar_visible</command> in mutt (and off again
    with ':unset'), or it can be enabled in  <filename>~/.muttrc</filename>.</para>

    <para><parameter>--with-ssl</parameter>: This parameter adds SSL/TLS
    support from openssl in POP3/IMAP/SMTP.</para>

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

    <para><option>--with-sasl</option>: 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>

    <!-- we do not normally list all possible switches. LFS installs ncurses.
    <para><option>\-\-with-slang</option>: Use <application>S-Lang
    </application> instead of <application>Ncurses</application>.</para> -->

    <para><command>test -s doc/manual.txt || mv -v doc/manual.txt{.shipped,}</command>:
    if the text manual is now empty (<application>libxslt</application> is
    installed, but without any of the specified text browsers), restore it
    from the copy.</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>mutt, mutt_dotlock, 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="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="pgpewrap">
        <term><command>pgpewrap</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>prepares a command line for the <xref linkend="gnupg2"/>
          utilities.</para>
          <indexterm zone="mutt pgpewrap">
            <primary sortas="b-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="gnupg2"/>.</para>
          <indexterm zone="mutt pgpring">
            <primary sortas="b-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="b-smime_keys">smime_keys</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>