source: networking/mailnews/mutt.xml@ 6742509c

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   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY mutt-download-http "https://bitbucket.org/mutt/mutt/downloads/mutt-&mutt-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY mutt-download-ftp  "ftp://ftp.mutt.org/pub/mutt/mutt-&mutt-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY mutt-md5sum        "1c109c6211477e6dc3decd63c6f99199">
  <!ENTITY mutt-size          "5.0 MB">
  <!ENTITY mutt-buildsize     "46 MB">
  <!ENTITY mutt-time          "0.3 SBU">
]>

<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>

    &lfs91_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="gnutls"/>,
      <xref linkend="gpgme"/>,
      <xref linkend="libidn"/>,
      <xref linkend="mitkrb"/>,
      an <xref linkend="server-mail"/> (that provides a <command>sendmail</command> command),
      <xref linkend="slang"/>,
      <xref linkend="sqlite"/>,
      <ulink url="http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/">libgssapi</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://mixmaster.sourceforge.net/">Mixmaster</ulink>,
      <!-- from configure: \-\-with-bdb[=DIR] Use BerkeleyDB4 if gdbm is not
      available but gdbm is installed in LFS, so do not mention BerkeleyDB
      <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"/>,
      <ulink url="&w3m-url;">W3m</ulink>, or
      <ulink url="&elinks-url;">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"/> with
      <command>pdfjadetex</command> installed)
    </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>./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</userinput></screen>

<!-- PDF broken with 1.14.0
    <para>
      To generate the PDF manual with <xref linkend="texlive"/>, run
      the following command:
    </para>

<screen remap="doc"><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' remap='doc'><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>

      <para>
        An info file is now installed, so you will also need to recreate the
        <filename>/usr/share/info/dir</filename> as described when
        <application>Texinfo</application> was installed in LFS.
      </para>
    </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-autocrypt --with-sqlite3</option>: These two
      switches add support for passive protection against data collection,
      using gnupg and gpgme (gpgme is enabled by autocrypt). See <ulink
      url="http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#autocryptdoc">The Manual</ulink>.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>--enable-gpgme</option>: This switch enables GPG support
      through the GPGME package. Use this switch if you want GPG support in
      Mutt.
    </para>

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

    <para>
      <option>--with-idn2</option>: Use this parameter if both libidn and
      libidn2 have been installed, and you wish to use libidn2 here.
    </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> -->

  </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>, and
        <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>flea, mutt, mutt_dotlock, muttbug, 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="flea">
        <term><command>flea</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a script showing where to report bugs.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="mutt flea">
            <primary sortas="b-flea">flea</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <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="muttbug">
        <term><command>muttbug</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a script identical to <command>flea</command>.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="mutt muttbug">
            <primary sortas="b-muttbug">muttbug</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>