The Balsa package contains a GNOME-2 based mail client.
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.
Download (HTTP): https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/balsa-2.6.4.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: bebd22cb6bac87ee05255c48ee1d28dd
Download size: 3.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 66 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (Using parallelism=4)
Aspell-0.60.8.1, enchant-2.8.2, GMime-3.2.7, GPGME-1.23.2, GTK+-3.24.43, and libnotify-0.8.3
MTA (that provides a sendmail command)
Compface-1.5.2, Gcr-3.41.2, gtksourceview-3.24.11, libcanberra-0.30, libsecret-0.21.4, MIT Kerberos V5-1.21.3, OpenLDAP-2.6.8, Procmail-3.24, SQLite-3.47.0, WebKitGTK-2.46.3, html2text, osmo, rubrica, yelp-tools
First, fix build issues when configuring without WebKitGTK, or when using WebKitGTK-2.38 or later.
patch -Np1 -i ../balsa-2.6.4-upstream_fixes-2.patch
Install Balsa by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --localstatedir=/var/lib \ --without-html-widget && make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root
user:
make install
--without-html-widget
: This
option disables building the HTML renderer. If you want the HTML
renderer to be built, verify that you have WebKitGTK-2.46.3
installed, and then remove this option.
--with-canberra
: Enable libcanberra
support.
--with-compface
: Enable compface
support.
--with-gcr
: Use libgcr for TLS support.
--with-gss
: Enable GSSAPI support.
--with-ldap
: Use this option to enable
LDAP address book support if OpenLDAP is installed.
--with-libsecret
: Enable strong
password support and support for gnome-keyring to store passwords.
--with-sqlite
: Use this option to
enable SQLite address book support if SQLite is installed.