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Mutt-1.5.24

Introduction to Mutt

The Mutt package contains a Mail User Agent. This is useful for reading, writing, replying to, saving, and deleting your email.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.8 platform.

Package Information

Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.mutt.org/pub/mutt/mutt-1.5.24.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 7f25d27f3c7c82285ac07aac35f5f0f2
Download size: 3.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 36 MB (plus a further 8MB for the PDF manual)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (plus a further 0.2 SBU to build the PDF manual)

Mutt Dependencies

Installation of Mutt

Note

This version of Mutt is a development release. The BLFS editors have determined that it provides a stable program and fixes two issues in the current stable version of Mutt: a segmentation fault that occurs under certain conditions and a compilation problem when building with recent versions of GCC.

Mutt requires a group named mail. You can add this group, if it does not exist, with this command:

groupadd -g 34 mail

If you did not install an MTA, you need to modify the ownership of /var/mail with this command:

chgrp -v mail /var/mail

Mutt will rebuild the html documentation if libxslt is present, then use that to update the text manual - even if none of the specified browsers are present. That will create an empty text file, so we will save the shipped file.

Install Mutt by running the following commands:

cp -v doc/manual.txt{,.shipped} &&
./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --with-docdir=/usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.24 \
            --enable-pop      \
            --enable-imap     \
            --enable-hcache   \
            --without-qdbm    \
            --with-gdbm       \
            --without-bdb     \
            --without-tokyocabinet &&
make &&
test -s doc/manual.txt || mv -v doc/manual.txt{.shipped,}

To generate the PDF manual with texlive-20150521, run the following command:

make -C doc manual.pdf

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you generated the PDF manual, install it and the source TeX file by issuing the following command as the root user:

install -v -m644 doc/manual.{pdf,tex} \
    /usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.24

Command Explanations

--enable-pop: This switch enables POP3 support.

--enable-imap: This switch enables IMAP support.

--enable-hcache: This switch enables header caching.

--without-qdbm: This switch disables QDBM as the header cache backend.

--without-tokyocabinet: This switch disables Tokyo Cabinet as the header cache backend.

--with-gdbm: This switch enables GDBM as the header cache backend.

--without-bdb: This switch disables Berkeley DB as the header cache backend.

--enable-smtp: This switch enables SMTP relay support.

--with-ssl: This parameter adds SSL/TLS support from OpenSSL-1.0.2d in POP3/IMAP/SMTP if they are enabled.

--with-sasl: This parameter adds authentication support from Cyrus SASL-2.1.26 in POP3/IMAP/SMTP if they are enabled. Depending on the server configuration, this may not be needed for POP3 or IMAP. However, it is needed for SMTP authentication.

--with-slang: Use S-Lang instead of Ncurses.

test -s doc/manual.txt || mv -v doc/manual.txt{.shipped,}: if the text manual is now empty (libxslt is installed, but without any of the specified text browsers), restore it from the copy.

Configuring Mutt

Config Files

/etc/Muttrc, ~/.muttrc, /etc/mime.types, ~/.mime.types

Configuration Information

No changes in these files are necessary to begin using Mutt. When you are ready to make changes, the man page for muttrc is a good starting place.

In order to utilize GnuPG, use the following command:

cat /usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.24/samples/gpg.rc >> ~/.muttrc

Installed Programs: flea, mutt, mutt_dotlock, muttbug, pgpewrap, pgpring, and smime_keys

Installed Libraries: None

Installed Directories: /usr/share/doc/mutt-1.5.24

Short Descriptions

flea	is a bug submitter for Mutt.
mutt	is a Mail User Agent (MUA) which enables you to read, write and delete your email.
mutt_dotlock	implements the mail spool file lock.
muttbug	is a script that executes flea.
pgpewrap	prepares a command line for the GnuPG-2.1.7 utilities.
pgpring	is a key ring dumper for PGP. It is not needed for GnuPG-2.1.7.
smime_keys	manages a keystore for S/MIME certificates.

Last updated on 2015-09-20 14:02:11 -0700

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