The Balsa package contains a GNOME-2 based mail client.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.0 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/balsa-2.6.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: cf6b5183cc3eb240c3dd120167822c35
Download size: 3.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 77 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (Using parallelism=4)
Aspell-0.60.8, enchant-2.3.1, GMime-3.2.7, GPGME-1.16.0, GTK+-3.24.30, libnotify-0.7.9, and Rarian-0.8.1
MTA (that provides a sendmail command)
Compface-1.5.2, Gcr-3.40.0, gtksourceview-3.24.11, libcanberra-0.30, libsecret-0.20.4, MIT Kerberos V5-1.19.2, OpenLDAP-2.5.7, Procmail-3.22, SQLite-3.36.0, WebKitGTK-2.32.3, html2text, osmo, rubrica, yelp-tools
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/balsa
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-2.32.3
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.
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