Pine-4.63

Introduction to Pine

The Pine package contains the Pine Mail User Agent and several server daemons for various mail protocols, in addition to some nice file and directory editing/browsing programs.

Package Information

Additional Downloads

Pine Dependencies

Required

OpenSSL-0.9.7g

Optional

OpenLDAP-2.2.24 and MIT krb5-1.4.1

Installation of Pine

Install Pine by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../pine-4.63-fhs-3.patch &&
./build DEBUG=-O MAILSPOOL=/var/mail \
    SSLDIR=/usr SSLCERTS=/etc/ssl/certs slx

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

cp -v doc/*.1 /usr/share/man/man1 &&
cd bin &&
install -v -m755 pine imapd ipop2d ipop3d mailutil mtest pico \
    pilot rpdump rpload /usr/bin

Command Explanations

patch -Np1 -i ../pine-4.63-fhs-x.patch: This patch will make Pine use /etc for configuration files.

The build procedure for Pine is somewhat unusual, in that options usually passed as ./configure options or housed in $CFLAGS must all be passed on the command line to the ./build script.

./build slx: Pine offers quite a few target platforms, slx specifies Linux using -lcrypt to get the crypt function. See the doc/pine-ports file for more information and other authentication options.

DEBUG=-O: This flag compiles an optimized version of pine and pico that produces no debug files.

MAILSPOOL=/var/mail: Location of mail spool files, /var/mail.

SSLDIR=/usr SSLCERTS=/etc/ssl/certs: Location of OpenSSL files.

cd bin && install ... /usr/bin: This installs the Pine programs.

Configuring Pine

Config Files

~/.pinerc

Configuration Information

The pine executable needs no global configuration to use. Users set Pine options in ~/.pinerc using an internal configuration menu.

Contents

Installed Programs: imapd, ipop2d, ipop3d, mtest, pico, pilot, pine, rpdump, and rpload
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

imapd

is the IMAP server daemon.

ipop2d

is an IMAP to POP2 conversion server.

ipop3d

is an IMAP to POP3 conversion server.

metest

is a minimal IMAP mail user agent, used for debugging.

pico

is a stand-alone editor, similar to the Pine internal message composer.

pilot

is a file and directory navigator and browser.

pine

is the Pine mail user agent.

rpdump

is used to copy data from remote Pine configuration files or address books into a local file.

rpload

is the Pine remote data utility, used to convert local Pine configuration files or address books into remote configurations or address books.

Last updated on 2005-08-01 13:29:19 -0600