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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-http " ">
9 <!ENTITY mutt-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.mutt.org/mutt/mutt-&mutt-version;.tar.gz">
10 <!ENTITY mutt-md5sum "11f5b6a3eeba1afa1257fe93c9f26bff">
11 <!ENTITY mutt-size "3.7 MB">
12 <!ENTITY mutt-buildsize "36 MB (plus a further 8MB for the PDF manual)">
13 <!ENTITY mutt-time "0.7 SBU (plus a further 0.2SBU to regenerate the html if the required dependencies are present, and 0.2 SBU to build the PDF manual)">
14]>
15
16<sect1 id="mutt" xreflabel="Mutt-&mutt-version;">
17 <?dbhtml filename="mutt.html"?>
18
19 <sect1info>
20 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
21 <date>$Date$</date>
22 </sect1info>
23
24 <title>Mutt-&mutt-version;</title>
25
26 <indexterm zone="mutt">
27 <primary sortas="a-mutt">mutt</primary>
28 </indexterm>
29
30 <sect2 role="package">
31 <title>Introduction to Mutt</title>
32
33 <para>The <application>Mutt</application> package contains a Mail User
34 Agent. This is useful for reading, writing, replying to, saving, and
35 deleting your email.</para>
36
37 &lfs76_checked;
38
39 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
40 <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
41 <listitem>
42 <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&mutt-download-http;"/></para>
43 </listitem>
44 <listitem>
45 <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&mutt-download-ftp;"/></para>
46 </listitem>
47 <listitem>
48 <para>Download MD5 sum: &mutt-md5sum;</para>
49 </listitem>
50 <listitem>
51 <para>Download size: &mutt-size;</para>
52 </listitem>
53 <listitem>
54 <para>Estimated disk space required: &mutt-buildsize;</para>
55 </listitem>
56 <listitem>
57 <para>Estimated build time: &mutt-time;</para>
58 </listitem>
59 </itemizedlist>
60
61 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Mutt Dependencies</bridgehead>
62
63 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
64 <para role="optional">
65 <xref linkend="aspell"/>,
66 <xref linkend="cyrus-sasl"/>,
67 <xref linkend="gdb"/>,
68 <xref linkend="gnupg2"/>,
69 <xref linkend="gpgme"/>,
70 <ulink url="http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/linux/">libgssapi</ulink>,
71 <xref linkend="libidn"/>,
72 <xref linkend="mitkrb"/>,
73 <ulink url="http://mixmaster.sourceforge.net/">Mixmaster</ulink>,
74 an <xref linkend="server-mail"/> (that provides a <command>sendmail</command> command),
75 <xref linkend="slang"/>,
76 <xref linkend="openssl"/> or
77 <xref linkend="gnutls"/>,
78 <xref linkend="db"/> or
79 <ulink url="http://fallabs.com/qdbm/">QDBM</ulink> or
80 <ulink url="http://fallabs.com/tokyocabinet/">Tokyo Cabinet</ulink>
81 </para>
82
83 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (To Regenerate HTML
84 Documentation)</bridgehead>
85 <para role="optional">
86 <xref linkend="libxslt"/> and either
87 <xref linkend="lynx"/>,
88 <xref linkend="w3m"/>, or
89 <ulink url="http://elinks.or.cz/">ELinks</ulink>
90 </para>
91
92 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional (To Generate PDF Manual)</bridgehead>
93 <para role="optional">
94 <xref linkend="docbook-dsssl"/>,
95 <xref linkend="openjade"/>, and
96 <xref linkend="texlive"/>
97 </para>
98
99 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
100 <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/mutt"/></para>
101
102 </sect2>
103
104 <sect2 role="installation">
105 <title>Installation of Mutt</title>
106
107 <note>
108 <para>This version of <application>Mutt</application> is a development
109 release. The BLFS staff has determined that it provides a stable
110 program and fixes two issues in the current stable version of
111 <application>Mutt</application>: a segmentation fault that occurs under
112 certain conditions and a compilation problem when building with recent
113 versions of <application>GCC</application>. To find the current
114 stable release, please refer to the
115 <ulink url="http://www.mutt.org/">Mutt home page</ulink>.</para>
116 </note>
117
118 <para><application>Mutt</application> requires a group named
119 <systemitem class="groupname">mail</systemitem>. You can
120 add this group, if it does not exist, with this command:</para>
121
122<screen role="root"><userinput>groupadd -g 34 mail</userinput></screen>
123
124 <para>If you did not install an <xref linkend="server-mail"/>, you need to
125 modify the ownership of <filename class="directory">/var/mail</filename>
126 with this command:</para>
127
128<screen role="root"><userinput>chgrp -v mail /var/mail</userinput></screen>
129
130 <para>Install <application>Mutt</application> by running the following
131 commands:</para>
132
133<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
134 --sysconfdir=/etc \
135 --with-docdir=/usr/share/doc/mutt-&mutt-version; \
136 --enable-pop \
137 --enable-imap \
138 --enable-hcache \
139 --without-qdbm \
140 --with-gdbm \
141 --without-bdb \
142 --without-tokyocabinet &amp;&amp;
143make</userinput></screen>
144
145 <!-- for the moment, the html is regenerated automatically if the deps are
146 present, there is no way to stop it except by removing a dependency
147 <para>If you have the necessary dependencies installed and would like
148 to rebuild the HTML documentation, issue the following commands:</para>
149
150<screen><userinput>make -C doc clean &amp;&amp;
151make -C doc</userinput></screen> -->
152
153 <para>To generate the PDF manual with <xref linkend="texlive"/>, run
154 the following command:</para>
155
156<screen><userinput>make -C doc manual.pdf</userinput></screen>
157
158 <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
159
160 <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
161
162<screen role='root'><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
163
164 <para>If you generated the PDF manual, install it and the source TeX
165 file by issuing the following command as the
166 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
167
168<screen role='root'><userinput>install -v -m644 doc/manual.{pdf,tex} \
169 /usr/share/doc/mutt-&mutt-version;</userinput></screen>
170
171 </sect2>
172
173 <sect2 role="commands">
174 <title>Command Explanations</title>
175
176 <para><parameter>--enable-pop</parameter>: This switch enables
177 POP3 support.</para>
178
179 <para><parameter>--enable-imap</parameter>: This switch enables
180 IMAP support.</para>
181
182 <para><parameter>--enable-hcache</parameter>: This switch enables
183 header caching.</para>
184
185 <para><parameter>--without-qdbm</parameter>: This switch disables
186 <application>QDBM</application> as the header cache backend.</para>
187
188 <para><parameter>--without-tokyocabinet</parameter>: This switch disables
189 <application>Tokyo Cabinet</application> as the header cache backend.</para>
190
191 <para><parameter>--with-gdbm</parameter>: This switch enables
192 <application>GDBM</application> as the header cache backend.</para>
193
194 <para><parameter>--without-bdb</parameter>: This switch disables
195 <application>Berkeley DB</application> as the header cache backend.</para>
196
197 <para><option>--enable-smtp</option>: This switch enables
198 SMTP relay support.</para>
199
200 <para><option>--with-ssl</option>: This parameter adds SSL/TLS
201 support from <xref linkend="openssl"/> in POP3/IMAP/SMTP if they are
202 enabled.</para>
203
204 <para><option>--with-sasl</option>: This parameter adds
205 authentication support from <xref linkend="cyrus-sasl"/> in POP3/IMAP/SMTP
206 if they are enabled. Depending on the server configuration, this may not
207 be needed for POP3 or IMAP. However, it is needed for SMTP
208 authentication.</para>
209
210 <para><option>--with-slang</option>: Use <application>S-Lang
211 </application> instead of <application>Ncurses</application>.</para>
212
213 </sect2>
214
215 <sect2 role="configuration">
216 <title>Configuring Mutt</title>
217
218 <sect3 id="mutt-config">
219 <title>Config Files</title>
220
221 <para><filename>/etc/Muttrc</filename>, <filename>~/.muttrc</filename>,
222 <filename>/etc/mime.types</filename>, <filename>~/.mime.types</filename></para>
223
224 <indexterm zone="mutt mutt-config">
225 <primary sortas="e-etc-Muttrc">/etc/Muttrc</primary>
226 </indexterm>
227
228 <indexterm zone="mutt mutt-config">
229 <primary sortas="e-AA.muttrc">~/.muttrc</primary>
230 </indexterm>
231
232 <indexterm zone="mutt mutt-config">
233 <primary sortas="e-etc-mime.types">/etc/mime.types</primary>
234 </indexterm>
235
236 <indexterm zone="mutt mutt-config">
237 <primary sortas="e-AA.mime.types">~/.mime.types</primary>
238 </indexterm>
239
240 </sect3>
241
242 <sect3>
243 <title>Configuration Information</title>
244
245 <para>No changes in these files are necessary to begin using
246 <application>Mutt</application>. When you are ready to make changes, the
247 man page for <filename>muttrc</filename> is a good starting place.</para>
248
249 <para>In order to utilize <application>GnuPG</application>, use the following
250 command:</para>
251
252<screen><userinput>cat /usr/share/doc/mutt-&mutt-version;/samples/gpg.rc &gt;&gt; ~/.muttrc</userinput></screen>
253
254 </sect3>
255
256 </sect2>
257
258 <sect2 role="content">
259 <title>Contents</title>
260
261 <segmentedlist>
262 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
263 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
264 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
265
266 <seglistitem>
267 <seg>flea, mutt, mutt_dotlock, muttbug, pgpewrap, pgpring, and
268 smime_keys</seg>
269 <seg>None</seg>
270 <seg>/usr/share/doc/mutt-&mutt-version;</seg>
271 </seglistitem>
272 </segmentedlist>
273
274 <variablelist>
275 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
276 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
277 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
278
279 <varlistentry id="flea">
280 <term><command>flea</command></term>
281 <listitem>
282 <para>is a bug submitter for <application>Mutt</application>.</para>
283 <indexterm zone="mutt flea">
284 <primary sortas="b-flea">flea</primary>
285 </indexterm>
286 </listitem>
287 </varlistentry>
288
289 <varlistentry id="mutt-prog">
290 <term><command>mutt</command></term>
291 <listitem>
292 <para>is a Mail User Agent (MUA) which enables you to read, write
293 and delete your email.</para>
294 <indexterm zone="mutt mutt-prog">
295 <primary sortas="b-mutt">mutt</primary>
296 </indexterm>
297 </listitem>
298 </varlistentry>
299
300 <varlistentry id="mutt_dotlock">
301 <term><command>mutt_dotlock</command></term>
302 <listitem>
303 <para>implements the mail spool file lock.</para>
304 <indexterm zone="mutt mutt_dotlock">
305 <primary sortas="b-mutt_dotlock">mutt_dotlock</primary>
306 </indexterm>
307 </listitem>
308 </varlistentry>
309
310 <varlistentry id="muttbug">
311 <term><command>muttbug</command></term>
312 <listitem>
313 <para>is a script that executes <command>flea</command>.</para>
314 <indexterm zone="mutt muttbug">
315 <primary sortas="b-muttbug">muttbug</primary>
316 </indexterm>
317 </listitem>
318 </varlistentry>
319
320 <varlistentry id="pgpewrap">
321 <term><command>pgpewrap</command></term>
322 <listitem>
323 <para>prepares a command line for the <xref linkend="gnupg2"/>
324 utilities.</para>
325 <indexterm zone="mutt pgpewrap">
326 <primary sortas="b-pgpewrap">pgpewrap</primary>
327 </indexterm>
328 </listitem>
329 </varlistentry>
330
331 <varlistentry id="pgpring">
332 <term><command>pgpring</command></term>
333 <listitem>
334 <para>is a key ring dumper for <ulink
335 url="http://www.pgp.com/">PGP</ulink>. It is not needed for
336 <xref linkend="gnupg2"/>.</para>
337 <indexterm zone="mutt pgpring">
338 <primary sortas="b-pgpring">pgpring</primary>
339 </indexterm>
340 </listitem>
341 </varlistentry>
342
343 <varlistentry id="smime_keys">
344 <term><command>smime_keys</command></term>
345 <listitem>
346 <para>manages a keystore for S/MIME certificates.</para>
347 <indexterm zone="mutt smime_keys">
348 <primary sortas="b-smime_keys">smime_keys</primary>
349 </indexterm>
350 </listitem>
351 </varlistentry>
352
353 </variablelist>
354
355 </sect2>
356
357</sect1>
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