The Balsa package contains a GNOME-2 based mail client.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.4 platform.
Download (HTTP): http://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/balsa-2.5.1.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: afd175b4de2c6cc685ace50dc3ad61ff
Download size: 3.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 72 MB
Estimated build time: 0.5 SBU
libESMTP-1.0.6, Rarian-0.8.1, GMime-2.6.17, and Aspell-0.60.6.1 or GtkSpell (GtkSpell provides on-the-fly as you type spell checking)
GtkHTML, gtksourceview-3.8.2, OpenSSL-1.0.1e, OpenLDAP-2.4.36, Compface-1.5.2, MIT Kerberos V5-1.11.3, libnotify-0.7.6, SQLite-3.8.0.2, and MTA (that provides a sendmail command, note that it is only used if you didn't install the recommended libESMTP package)
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/balsa
Install Balsa by running the following commands:
sed -i "/(HAVE_CONFIG_H)/i \ #include <glib-2.0/glib.h>" src/main-window.c && ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome \ --localstatedir=/var/lib \ --with-rubrica \ --without-html-widget \ --without-libnotify \ --without-nm \ --without-gtkspell && make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root
user:
make install
--with-rubrica
: This
parameter is used to provide Rubrica2 address book support.
--with-ssl
: Use this option to enable
SSL support if OpenSSL is
installed.
--with-ldap
: Use this option to enable
LDAP address book support if OpenLDAP is installed.
--with-sqlite
: Use this option to
enable SQLite address book support if SQLite is installed.
--with-gpgme
: Use this option to enable
GPG support if “GnuPG Made Easy” (GPGME) is installed.
--enable-smime
: Use this option to
enable S/MIME support if GnuPG-2.x.x is installed.
All configuration of Balsa is done through the Balsa menu system, with mailbox configuration done with the Settings—>Preferences menu.
If you are unable to connect to your ISP, they probably don't support APOP. Disable it in Settings/Preferences/POP3/advanced.
If you enable filters for your incoming POP3 mail, you must have Procmail-3.22 installed, as the incoming mail will be handed off to procmail for processing.
Last updated on 2013-09-06 12:06:41 -0700