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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY mutt-download-http "&sourceforge-repo;/mutt/mutt-&mutt-version;.tar.gz">
8 <!ENTITY mutt-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.mutt.org/mutt/devel/mutt-&mutt-version;.tar.gz">
9 <!ENTITY mutt-md5sum "a29db8f1d51e2f10c070bf88e8a553fd">
10 <!ENTITY mutt-size "3.6 MB">
11 <!ENTITY mutt-buildsize "34 MB">
12 <!ENTITY mutt-time "0.3 SBU (plus a further 0.3SBU to regenerate the html if the required dependencies are present)">
13]>
14
15<sect1 id="mutt" xreflabel="Mutt-&mutt-version;">
16 <?dbhtml filename="mutt.html"?>
17
18 <sect1info>
19 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
20 <date>$Date$</date>
21 </sect1info>
22
23 <title>Mutt-&mutt-version;</title>
24
25 <indexterm zone="mutt">
26 <primary sortas="a-mutt">mutt</primary>
27 </indexterm>
28
29 <sect2 role="package">
30 <title>Introduction to Mutt</title>
31
32 <para>The <application>Mutt</application> package contains a Mail User
33 Agent. This is useful for reading, writing, replying to, saving, and
34 deleting your email.</para>
35
36 &lfs72_checked;
37
38 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
39 <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
40 <listitem>
41 <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&mutt-download-http;"/></para>
42 </listitem>
43 <listitem>
44 <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&mutt-download-ftp;"/></para>
45 </listitem>
46 <listitem>
47 <para>Download MD5 sum: &mutt-md5sum;</para>
48 </listitem>
49 <listitem>
50 <para>Download size: &mutt-size;</para>
51 </listitem>
52 <listitem>
53 <para>Estimated disk space required: &mutt-buildsize;</para>
54 </listitem>
55 <listitem>
56 <para>Estimated build time: &mutt-time;</para>
57 </listitem>
58 </itemizedlist>
59
60 <!--<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
61 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
62 <listitem>
63 <para>Required patch: <ulink
64 url="&patch-root;/mutt-&mutt-version;-interactive_smtp_fix-1.patch"/></para>
65 </listitem>
66 </itemizedlist>-->
67
68 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Mutt Dependencies</bridgehead>
69
70 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
71 <para role="optional"><xref linkend="gnupg"/> or <xref linkend="gnupg2"/>,
72 <xref linkend="openssl"/> or <xref linkend="gnutls"/>,
73 an <xref linkend="server-mail"/> (that provides a <command>sendmail</command> command),
74 <xref linkend="aspell"/>,
75 <xref linkend="mitkrb"/>,
76 <xref linkend="cyrus-sasl"/>,
77 <xref linkend="slang"/>,
78 <xref linkend="libidn"/>,
79 <xref linkend="db"/> or
80 <!-- <xref linkend="gdbm"/> -->
81 <ulink url="http://qdbm.sourceforge.net/">QDBM</ulink> or
82 <ulink url="http://tokyocabinet.sourceforge.net/index.html">Tokyo Cabinet</ulink>, and
83 <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/gdb.html">GDB</ulink>
84 </para>
85
86 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (To Regenerate HTML
87 Documentation)</bridgehead>
88 <para role="optional"><xref linkend="libxslt"/> and either
89 <xref linkend="lynx"/>,
90 <xref linkend="w3m"/> or
91 <ulink url="http://elinks.or.cz/">ELinks</ulink></para>
92
93 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (To Generate PDF Manual)</bridgehead>
94 <para role="optional"><xref linkend="jadetex"/> and
95 <xref linkend="docbook-dsssl"/></para>
96
97 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
98 <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/mutt"/></para>
99
100 </sect2>
101
102 <sect2 role="installation">
103 <title>Installation of Mutt</title>
104
105 <note>
106 <para>This version of <application>Mutt</application> is a development
107 release. The BLFS staff has determined that it provides a stable
108 program and fixes two issues in the current stable version of
109 <application>Mutt</application>: a segmentation fault that occurs under
110 certain conditions and a compilation problem when building with recent
111 versions of <application>GCC</application>. To find the current
112 stable release, please refer to the
113 <ulink url="http://www.mutt.org/">Mutt home page</ulink>.</para>
114 </note>
115
116 <para><application>Mutt</application> requires a group named
117 <systemitem class="groupname">mail</systemitem>. You can
118 add this group, if it does not exist, with this command:</para>
119
120<screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -g 34 mail</userinput></screen>
121
122 <para>If you did not install an MTA, such as <xref linkend="postfix"/> or
123 <xref linkend="sendmail"/>, you need to modify the ownership of
124 <filename class="directory">/var/mail</filename> with this command:</para>
125
126<screen role="root"><userinput>chgrp -v mail /var/mail</userinput></screen>
127
128 <para>Install <application>Mutt</application> by running the following
129 commands:</para>
130
131<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \
132 --with-docdir=/usr/share/doc/mutt-&mutt-version; \
133 --enable-pop --enable-imap \
134 --enable-hcache --without-qdbm \
135 --without-tokyocabinet \
136 --with-gdbm --without-bdb &amp;&amp;
137make</userinput></screen>
138
139 <!-- for the moment, the html is regenerated automatically if the deps are
140 present, there is no way to stop it except by removing a dependency
141 <para>If you have the necessary dependencies installed and would like
142 to rebuild the HTML documentation, issue the following commands:</para>
143
144<screen><userinput>make -C doc clean &amp;&amp;
145make -C doc</userinput></screen> -->
146
147 <para>To generate the PDF manual with <xref linkend="jadetex"/>, run
148 the following command:</para>
149
150<screen><userinput>make -C doc manual.pdf</userinput></screen>
151
152 <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
153
154 <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
155
156<screen role='root'><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
157
158 <para>If you generated the PDF manual, install it and the source TeX
159 file by issuing the following command as the
160 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
161
162<screen role='root'><userinput>install -v -m644 doc/manual.{pdf,tex} \
163 /usr/share/doc/mutt-&mutt-version;</userinput></screen>
164
165 </sect2>
166
167 <sect2 role="commands">
168 <title>Command Explanations</title>
169
170 <para><parameter>--enable-pop</parameter>: This switch enables
171 POP3 support.</para>
172
173 <para><parameter>--enable-imap</parameter>: This switch enables
174 IMAP support.</para>
175
176 <para><parameter>--enable-hcache</parameter>: This switch enables
177 header caching.</para>
178
179 <para><parameter>--without-qdbm</parameter>: This switch disables
180 <application>QDBM</application> as the header cache backend.</para>
181
182 <para><parameter>--without-tokyocabinet</parameter>: This switch disables
183 <application>Tokyo Cabinet</application> as the header cache backend.</para>
184
185 <!-- <para><parameter>- -without-gdbm</parameter>: This switch disables
186 <application>GDBM</application> as the header cache backend.</para> -->
187
188 <para><parameter>--with-gdbm</parameter>: This switch enables
189 <application>GDBM</application> as the header cache backend.</para>
190
191 <para><parameter>--without-bdb</parameter>: This switch disables
192 <application>Berkeley DB</application> as the header cache backend.</para>
193
194 <para><parameter>--enable-smtp</parameter>: This switch enables
195 SMTP relay support.</para>
196
197 <para><parameter>--with-ssl</parameter>: This parameter adds SSL/TLS
198 support from <xref linkend="openssl"/> in POP3/IMAP/SMTP if they are
199 enabled.</para>
200
201 <para><parameter>--with-sasl</parameter>: This parameter adds
202 authentication support from <xref linkend="cyrus-sasl"/> in POP3/IMAP/SMTP
203 if they are enabled. Depending on the server configuration, this may not
204 be needed for POP3 or IMAP. However, it is needed for SMTP
205 authentication.</para>
206
207 <para><parameter>--with-slang</parameter>: Use <application>S-Lang
208 </application> instead of <application>Ncurses</application>.</para>
209
210 </sect2>
211
212 <sect2 role="configuration">
213 <title>Configuring Mutt</title>
214
215 <sect3 id="mutt-config">
216 <title>Config Files</title>
217
218 <para><filename>/etc/Muttrc</filename>, <filename>~/.muttrc</filename>,
219 <filename>/etc/mime.types</filename>, <filename>~/.mime.types</filename></para>
220
221 <indexterm zone="mutt mutt-config">
222 <primary sortas="e-etc-Muttrc">/etc/Muttrc</primary>
223 </indexterm>
224
225 <indexterm zone="mutt mutt-config">
226 <primary sortas="e-AA.muttrc">~/.muttrc</primary>
227 </indexterm>
228
229 <indexterm zone="mutt mutt-config">
230 <primary sortas="e-etc-mime.types">/etc/mime.types</primary>
231 </indexterm>
232
233 <indexterm zone="mutt mutt-config">
234 <primary sortas="e-AA.mime.types">~/.mime.types</primary>
235 </indexterm>
236
237 </sect3>
238
239 <sect3>
240 <title>Configuration Information</title>
241
242 <para>No changes in these files are necessary to begin using
243 <application>Mutt</application>. When you are ready to make changes, the
244 man page for <filename>muttrc</filename> is a good starting place.</para>
245
246 <para>In order to utilize <application>GnuPG</application>, use the following
247 command:</para>
248
249<screen><userinput>cat /usr/share/doc/mutt-&mutt-version;/samples/gpg.rc &gt;&gt; ~/.muttrc</userinput></screen>
250
251 <para><application>Mutt</application> uses <command>gpg</command> in the
252 imported sample. If you have <xref linkend="gnupg2"/> installed and you
253 do not have <xref linkend="gnupg"/> installed you can create a symlink
254 to satisfy this condition:</para>
255
256 <screen role="root"><userinput>ln -v -s gpg2 /usr/bin/gpg</userinput></screen>
257
258 <para>If, however, you have <xref linkend="gnupg"/> installed and you wish
259 to use <xref linkend="gnupg2"/>, then you should edit
260 <filename>~/.muttrc</filename> by hand and change all occurances of
261 <command>gpg</command> to <command>gpg2</command>.</para>
262
263 </sect3>
264
265 </sect2>
266
267 <sect2 role="content">
268 <title>Contents</title>
269
270 <segmentedlist>
271 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
272 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
273 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
274
275 <seglistitem>
276 <seg>flea, mutt, mutt_dotlock, muttbug, pgpewrap, pgpring, and
277 smime_keys</seg>
278 <seg>None</seg>
279 <seg>/usr/share/doc/mutt-&mutt-version;</seg>
280 </seglistitem>
281 </segmentedlist>
282
283 <variablelist>
284 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
285 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
286 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
287
288 <varlistentry id="flea">
289 <term><command>flea</command></term>
290 <listitem>
291 <para>is a bug submitter for <application>Mutt</application>.</para>
292 <indexterm zone="mutt flea">
293 <primary sortas="b-flea">flea</primary>
294 </indexterm>
295 </listitem>
296 </varlistentry>
297
298 <varlistentry id="mutt-prog">
299 <term><command>mutt</command></term>
300 <listitem>
301 <para>is a Mail User Agent (MUA) which enables you to read, write
302 and delete your email.</para>
303 <indexterm zone="mutt mutt-prog">
304 <primary sortas="b-mutt">mutt</primary>
305 </indexterm>
306 </listitem>
307 </varlistentry>
308
309 <varlistentry id="mutt_dotlock">
310 <term><command>mutt_dotlock</command></term>
311 <listitem>
312 <para>implements the mail spool file lock.</para>
313 <indexterm zone="mutt mutt_dotlock">
314 <primary sortas="b-mutt_dotlock">mutt_dotlock</primary>
315 </indexterm>
316 </listitem>
317 </varlistentry>
318
319 <varlistentry id="muttbug">
320 <term><command>muttbug</command></term>
321 <listitem>
322 <para>is a script that executes <command>flea</command>.</para>
323 <indexterm zone="mutt muttbug">
324 <primary sortas="b-muttbug">muttbug</primary>
325 </indexterm>
326 </listitem>
327 </varlistentry>
328
329 <varlistentry id="pgpewrap">
330 <term><command>pgpewrap</command></term>
331 <listitem>
332 <para>prepares a command line for the <xref linkend="gnupg"/>
333 utilities.</para>
334 <indexterm zone="mutt pgpewrap">
335 <primary sortas="b-pgpewrap">pgpewrap</primary>
336 </indexterm>
337 </listitem>
338 </varlistentry>
339
340 <varlistentry id="pgpring">
341 <term><command>pgpring</command></term>
342 <listitem>
343 <para>is a key ring dumper for <ulink
344 url="http://www.pgp.com/">PGP</ulink>. It is not needed for
345 <xref linkend="gnupg"/>.</para>
346 <indexterm zone="mutt pgpring">
347 <primary sortas="b-pgpring">pgpring</primary>
348 </indexterm>
349 </listitem>
350 </varlistentry>
351
352 <varlistentry id="smime_keys">
353 <term><command>smime_keys</command></term>
354 <listitem>
355 <para>manages a keystore for S/MIME certificates.</para>
356 <indexterm zone="mutt smime_keys">
357 <primary sortas="b-smime_keys">smime_keys</primary>
358 </indexterm>
359 </listitem>
360 </varlistentry>
361
362 </variablelist>
363
364 </sect2>
365
366</sect1>
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