The Balsa package contains a GNOME-2 based mail client.
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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-2.6.5, GMime-3.2.7, GPGME-1.23.2, GTK+-3.24.40, 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-0.21.2, MIT Kerberos V5-1.21.2, OpenLDAP-2.6.6, Procmail-3.22, SQLite-3.45.0, WebKitGTK-2.42.4, 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-2.42.4 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.