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Client Tools & Software

Figure 5 shows FollowMeEmail Client Side Software.

LEAP Software

EMSD-UA - PINE

Adopted Software

Fetchmail

Getting The Sources

Fetchmail: Building From Sources on Solaris

Just use the standard GNU technique:

        ./configure
        make
        make install

You can provide options to 'configure' to keep it from putting everything in /usr/local if you use another scheme for locally-installed software:

        ./configure --prefix=/opt/public
        make
        make install

For a complete list of options to the configure utility, use

        ./configure --help

Fetchmail: Building From Sources on NT 4.0

Cygwin isn't officially recognized by the version of the GNU Autoconf tool used with the version of Fetchmail we're working with. But with a couple of tweaks, it still works fine:

(1) Copy 'rm.exe' and 'sh.exe' from the Cygnus distribution to the directory '/bin'. You can also tweak the script that are looking for /bin/sh and /bin/rm to use whatever the nasty Cygwin directory is on your system, but we like a tiny little fake /bin better.

(2) Run

   ./configure --host=Cygwin

Cygwin won't be recognized, but Autoconf still does its job and produces a usable Makefile and config.h file.

(3) Edit the Makefile and add '-DCYGWIN' to the CFLAGS variable.

After you're done it should look like

        CFLAGS = -O -DCYGWIN

(4) Just run

        make

If you get errors complaining about 'bison.simple', edit the Makefile again and give Bison the '-S' flag with the full pathname where bison.simple is found (i.e. /share beneath the Cygwin hierarchy).

(5) Copy fetchmail to wherever you'd like to keep it.

'make install' doesn't make much sense on NT, at least not yet.

Fetchmail: Binary Installation

Fetchmail: Configuration

Fetchmail: Verification

Fetchmail: User Support

Documentation

Procmail

Procmail does some funny things with its makefiles and thus wasn't as easy to make into a single source tree, so we provide separate versions for Solaris and NT.

Getting The Sources

Procmail: Building From Sources on Solaris

It's easy:

        make
        make install

and optionally

        su
        make install-suid

Procmail: Building From Sources on NT 4.0

Also easy. The Procmail script does funny things with 'make', so we provide a script on top of it. Just run

        build

and things should turn out right.

We haven't attempted to test all of Procmail's famously robust file-delivery code on NT, since we need only its filtering capabilities. But the filtering properties seem to work just fine, so we'd encourage anyone interested in a full NT Procmail port to jump right on it!

Procmail: Binary Installation

Procmail: Configuration

Procmail: Verification

Procmail: User Support

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Documentation


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