[16998db6] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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[6732c094] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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[16998db6] | 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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[d40dd18] | 7 | <!ENTITY balsa-download-http "https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/balsa-&balsa-version;.tar.xz">
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[16998db6] | 8 | <!ENTITY balsa-download-ftp " ">
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[d40dd18] | 9 | <!ENTITY balsa-md5sum "cf6b5183cc3eb240c3dd120167822c35">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY balsa-size "3.6 MB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY balsa-buildsize "77 MB">
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[bd17317] | 12 | <!ENTITY balsa-time "0.2 SBU (Using parallelism=4)">
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[16998db6] | 13 | ]>
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| 14 |
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[19234f1] | 15 | <sect1 id="balsa" xreflabel="Balsa-&balsa-version;">
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[9d2d426b] | 16 | <?dbhtml filename="balsa.html" ?>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <sect1info>
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| 19 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 20 | </sect1info>
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <title>Balsa-&balsa-version;</title>
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| 23 |
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| 24 | <indexterm zone="balsa">
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| 25 | <primary sortas="a-Balsa">Balsa</primary>
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| 26 | </indexterm>
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| 27 |
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| 28 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 29 | <title>Introduction to Balsa</title>
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| 30 |
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[622c1021] | 31 | <para>
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| 32 | The <application>Balsa</application> package contains a
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| 33 | <application>GNOME</application>-2 based mail client.
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| 34 | </para>
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[9d2d426b] | 35 |
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[2e988363] | 36 | &lfs111_checked;
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[a51c847] | 37 |
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[9d2d426b] | 38 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 39 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 40 | <listitem>
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[622c1021] | 41 | <para>
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| 42 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&balsa-download-http;"/>
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| 43 | </para>
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[9d2d426b] | 44 | </listitem>
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| 45 | <listitem>
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[622c1021] | 46 | <para>
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| 47 | Download (FTP): <ulink url="&balsa-download-ftp;"/>
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| 48 | </para>
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[9d2d426b] | 49 | </listitem>
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| 50 | <listitem>
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[622c1021] | 51 | <para>
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| 52 | Download MD5 sum: &balsa-md5sum;
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| 53 | </para>
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[9d2d426b] | 54 | </listitem>
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| 55 | <listitem>
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[622c1021] | 56 | <para>
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| 57 | Download size: &balsa-size;
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| 58 | </para>
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[9d2d426b] | 59 | </listitem>
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| 60 | <listitem>
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[622c1021] | 61 | <para>
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| 62 | Estimated disk space required: &balsa-buildsize;
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| 63 | </para>
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[9d2d426b] | 64 | </listitem>
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| 65 | <listitem>
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[622c1021] | 66 | <para>
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| 67 | Estimated build time: &balsa-time;
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| 68 | </para>
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[9d2d426b] | 69 | </listitem>
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| 70 | </itemizedlist>
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| 71 |
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| 72 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Balsa Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 73 |
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| 74 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
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[38d4077] | 75 | <para role="required">
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[e5f7eee] | 76 | <xref linkend="aspell"/>,
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[b2208110] | 77 | <xref linkend="enchant"/>,
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[bd17317] | 78 | <xref linkend="gmime3"/>,
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[3d9b01d] | 79 | <xref linkend="gpgme"/>,
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[bdcd7db] | 80 | <xref linkend="gtk3"/>, and
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| 81 | <xref linkend="libnotify"/>
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| 82 | <!--<xref linkend="rarian"/>-->
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[38d4077] | 83 | </para>
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[9d2d426b] | 84 |
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[9cb3c66d] | 85 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required (Runtime)</bridgehead>
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| 86 | <para role="required">
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| 87 | <xref role="runtime" linkend="server-mail"/> (that provides a
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| 88 | <command>sendmail</command> command)
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| 89 | </para>
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| 90 |
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[580ce98] | 91 | <!-- in 2.6.3 the only references to pcre are in the old spec file,
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| 92 | the INSTALL file which seems to be out of date,
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| 93 | and the ChangeLog where it was defaulted to off in 2008.
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| 94 | Not mentioned in configure.
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[39c49464] | 95 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
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[38d4077] | 96 | <para role="recommended">
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| 97 | <xref linkend="pcre"/>
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[580ce98] | 98 | </para>-->
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[39c49464] | 99 |
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[9d2d426b] | 100 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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[38d4077] | 101 | <para role="optional">
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| 102 | <xref linkend="compface"/>,
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[3d9b01d] | 103 | <xref linkend="gcr"/>,
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[b2208110] | 104 | <xref linkend="gtksourceview"/>,
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[3d9b01d] | 105 | <xref linkend="libcanberra"/>,
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| 106 | <xref linkend="libsecret"/>,
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[b2208110] | 107 | <xref linkend="mitkrb"/>,
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| 108 | <xref linkend="openldap"/>,
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[3d9b01d] | 109 | <xref linkend="procmail"/>,
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[9a7afe6e] | 110 | <xref linkend="sqlite"/>,
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[e5f7eee] | 111 | <xref linkend="webkitgtk"/>,
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[3d9b01d] | 112 | <ulink url="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/html2text/">html2text</ulink>,
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| 113 | <ulink url="http://clayo.org/osmo/">osmo</ulink>,
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| 114 | <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/projects/rubrica.berlios/">rubrica</ulink>,
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| 115 | <ulink url="&gnome-download-http;/yelp-tools/">yelp-tools</ulink>
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[38d4077] | 116 | </para>
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[9d2d426b] | 117 |
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[38e4f06] | 118 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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| 119 | <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/balsa"/></para>
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| 120 |
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[9d2d426b] | 121 | </sect2>
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| 122 |
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| 123 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 124 | <title>Installation of Balsa</title>
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| 125 |
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[622c1021] | 126 | <para>
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| 127 | Install <application>Balsa</application> by running the following
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| 128 | commands:
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| 129 | </para>
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[9d2d426b] | 130 |
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[9a7afe6e] | 131 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
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| 132 | --sysconfdir=/etc \
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[56ce09e] | 133 | --localstatedir=/var/lib \
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[d40dd18] | 134 | --without-html-widget &&
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[b0557208] | 135 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 136 |
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[622c1021] | 137 | <para>
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| 138 | This package does not come with a test suite.
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| 139 | </para>
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[b0557208] | 140 |
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[622c1021] | 141 | <para>
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| 142 | Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 143 | </para>
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[b0557208] | 144 |
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| 145 | <screen role='root'><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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[16998db6] | 146 |
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[9d2d426b] | 147 | </sect2>
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[16998db6] | 148 |
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[9d2d426b] | 149 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 150 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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[16998db6] | 151 |
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[3d9b01d] | 152 | <!-- Support has been added for this, but the option is still unrecognized.
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[622c1021] | 153 | <para>
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| 154 | <parameter>- -with-rubrica</parameter>: This parameter is used
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| 155 | to provide Rubrica2 address book support.
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| 156 | </para>
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[3d9b01d] | 157 | -->
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[16998db6] | 158 |
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[3d9b01d] | 159 | <!-- configure says this is an invalid option with 2.5.11
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[622c1021] | 160 | <para>
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[3d9b01d] | 161 | <option>- -enable-smime</option>: Use this option to enable S/MIME
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[622c1021] | 162 | support if <application>GnuPG-2.x.x</application> is installed.
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| 163 | </para>
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[3d9b01d] | 164 | -->
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| 165 |
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| 166 | <para>
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| 167 | <parameter>--without-html-widget</parameter>: This option disables
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| 168 | building the HTML renderer. If you want the HTML renderer to be built,
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| 169 | verify that you have <xref linkend="webkitgtk"/> installed, and then
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| 170 | remove this option.
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| 171 | </para>
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[c51f263] | 172 |
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[622c1021] | 173 | <para>
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| 174 | <option>--with-canberra</option>: Enable libcanberra support.
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| 175 | </para>
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[c51f263] | 176 |
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[622c1021] | 177 | <para>
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| 178 | <option>--with-compface</option>: Enable compface support.
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| 179 | </para>
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[c51f263] | 180 |
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[622c1021] | 181 | <para>
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| 182 | <option>--with-gcr</option>: Use libgcr for TLS support.
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| 183 | </para>
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[c51f263] | 184 |
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[622c1021] | 185 | <para>
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| 186 | <option>--with-gss</option>: Enable GSSAPI support.
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| 187 | </para>
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[16998db6] | 188 |
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[622c1021] | 189 | <para>
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| 190 | <option>--with-ldap</option>: Use this option to enable LDAP address
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| 191 | book support if <application>OpenLDAP</application> is installed.
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| 192 | </para>
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[16998db6] | 193 |
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[622c1021] | 194 | <para>
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| 195 | <option>--with-libsecret</option>: Enable strong password
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[3d9b01d] | 196 | support and support for gnome-keyring to store passwords.
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[622c1021] | 197 | </para>
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[ebb3545c] | 198 |
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[3d9b01d] | 199 | <!-- configure says this is an invalid option with 2.5.11
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[622c1021] | 200 | <para>
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[3d9b01d] | 201 | <option>- -with-gpgme</option>: Use this option to enable GPG support
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[622c1021] | 202 | if <quote><application>GnuPG</application> Made Easy</quote>
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| 203 | (<application>GPGME</application>) is installed.
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| 204 | </para>
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[3d9b01d] | 205 | -->
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[c51f263] | 206 |
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[622c1021] | 207 | <para>
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| 208 | <option>--with-sqlite</option>: Use this option to enable SQLite
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| 209 | address book support if <application>SQLite</application> is
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| 210 | installed.
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| 211 | </para>
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[16998db6] | 212 |
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[9d2d426b] | 213 | </sect2>
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[16998db6] | 214 |
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[3d9b01d] | 215 | <!-- All of this information is invalid. These options no longer exist since
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| 216 | Balsa was ported to GTK3.
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[9d2d426b] | 217 | <sect2 role="configuration">
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| 218 | <title>Configuring Balsa</title>
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[16998db6] | 219 |
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[9d2d426b] | 220 | <sect3>
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| 221 | <title>Configuration Information</title>
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[16998db6] | 222 |
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[622c1021] | 223 | <para>
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| 224 | All configuration of <application>Balsa</application> is done
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| 225 | through the <application>Balsa</application> menu system, with mailbox
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| 226 | configuration done with the Settings—>Preferences menu.
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| 227 | </para>
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| 228 |
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| 229 | <para>
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| 230 | If you are unable to connect to your ISP, they probably don't
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| 231 | support APOP. Disable it in Settings/Preferences/POP3/advanced.
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| 232 | </para>
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| 233 |
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| 234 | <para>
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| 235 | If you enable filters for your incoming POP3 mail, you must have
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| 236 | <xref linkend="procmail"/> installed, as the incoming mail will be
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| 237 | handed off to <command>procmail</command> for processing.
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| 238 | </para>
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[ebb3545c] | 239 |
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[9d2d426b] | 240 | </sect3>
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[16998db6] | 241 |
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[9d2d426b] | 242 | </sect2>
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[3d9b01d] | 243 | -->
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[16998db6] | 244 |
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[9d2d426b] | 245 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 246 | <title>Contents</title>
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[16998db6] | 247 |
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[9d2d426b] | 248 | <segmentedlist>
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[ebb3545c] | 249 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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[9d2d426b] | 250 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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| 251 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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[16998db6] | 252 |
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[9d2d426b] | 253 | <seglistitem>
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[ebb3545c] | 254 | <seg>balsa and balsa-ab</seg>
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[9d2d426b] | 255 | <seg>None</seg>
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[e5f7eee] | 256 | <seg>/etc/sounds/events,
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[8558044] | 257 | /usr/share/balsa,
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[e5f7eee] | 258 | and /usr/share/sounds/balsa</seg>
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[9d2d426b] | 259 | </seglistitem>
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| 260 | </segmentedlist>
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[16998db6] | 261 |
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[9d2d426b] | 262 | <variablelist>
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| 263 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 264 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 265 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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[16998db6] | 266 |
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[9d2d426b] | 267 | <varlistentry id="balsa-prog">
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| 268 | <term><command>balsa</command></term>
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| 269 | <listitem>
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[9a7afe6e] | 270 | <para>
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[4c24eb0a] | 271 | is a glib based mail client
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[9a7afe6e] | 272 | </para>
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[9d2d426b] | 273 | <indexterm zone="balsa balsa-prog">
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| 274 | <primary sortas="b-balsa">balsa</primary>
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| 275 | </indexterm>
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| 276 | </listitem>
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| 277 | </varlistentry>
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[2b4194f] | 278 |
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[9a7afe6e] | 279 | <varlistentry id="balsa-ab">
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| 280 | <term><command>balsa-ab</command></term>
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| 281 | <listitem>
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| 282 | <para>
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[4c24eb0a] | 283 | is the address-book application used by <command>balsa</command>
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[9a7afe6e] | 284 | </para>
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| 285 | <indexterm zone="balsa balsa-ab">
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| 286 | <primary sortas="b-balsa">balsa-ab</primary>
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| 287 | </indexterm>
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| 288 | </listitem>
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| 289 | </varlistentry>
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| 290 |
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[9d2d426b] | 291 | </variablelist>
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| 292 |
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| 293 | </sect2>
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[2b4194f] | 294 |
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[9d2d426b] | 295 | </sect1>
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