The Heirloom mailx package (formerly known as the Nail package) contains mailx, a command-line Mail User Agent derived from Berkeley Mail. It is intended to provide the functionality of the POSIX mailx command with additional support for MIME messages, IMAP (including caching), POP3, SMTP, S/MIME, message threading/sorting, scoring, and filtering. Heirloom mailx is especially useful for writing scripts and batch processing.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.2 platform.
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Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
nss-3.103, MIT Kerberos V5-1.21.3 (for IMAP GSSAPI authentication), and an MTA
This package does not support parallel build.
Install Heirloom mailx by running the following commands.
patch -Np1 -i ../heirloom-mailx-12.5-fixes-1.patch && sed 's@<openssl@<openssl-1.0/openssl@' \ -i openssl.c fio.c makeconfig && make -j1 LDFLAGS+="-L /usr/lib/openssl/" \ SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root
user:
make PREFIX=/usr UCBINSTALL=/usr/bin/install install && ln -v -sf mailx /usr/bin/mail && ln -v -sf mailx /usr/bin/nail && install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/heirloom-mailx-12.5 && install -v -m644 README /usr/share/doc/heirloom-mailx-12.5
make SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail: This changes the default MTA path of /usr/lib/sendmail.
make PREFIX=/usr
UCBINSTALL=/usr/bin/install install: This changes
the default installation path of /usr/local
and the default install command path of
/usr/ucb
.
For displaying mails, mailx uses
a pager program. Since the default of pg is not available on a LFS
system, its required to specify which pager is to use. By
default, there is more and the more comfortable
less installed. If
the variable PAGER is not set in /etc/profile
or ~/.bash_profile
, or if it should be another
pager just for reading mails, it can be set system wide in
/etc/nail.rc
:
echo "set PAGER=<more|less>
" >> /etc/nail.rc
or individually for the actual user in ~/.mailrc
:
echo "set PAGER=<more|less>
" >> ~/.mailrc
Other interesting options to set in the config files might be EDITOR and MAILDIR.
If not set in the environment for other packages, the default editor can be set by:
echo "set EDITOR=<vim|nano|...>
" >> /etc/nail.rc
Depending on which kind of MTA is installed, it might be required to set the MAILDIR variable so mailx is able to find the mails:
echo "set MAILDIR=Maildir" >> /etc/nail.rc