Mail Clients help you retrieve (Fetchmail), sort (Procmail), read and compose responses (Heirloom mailx, Mutt, Pine, Kmail, Balsa, Evolution, SeaMonkey) to email.
News clients also help you retrieve, sort, read and compose responses, but these messages travel through USENET (a worldwide bulletin board system) using the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP).
The Heirloom mailx package (formerly known as the Nail package) contains mailx, a command-line Mail User Agent derived from Berkeley Mail which 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.
Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/heirloom/mailx-12.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 67e8236a73f8a2d85c45cf8a2bdf7af1
Download size: 268 KB
Estimated disk space required: 3.2 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
OpenSSL-0.9.8d or NSS-3.11.3, Heimdal-0.7.2 or MIT Kerberos V5-1.6 (for IMAP GSSAPI authentication), and an MTA
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/mailx
Install Heirloom mailx by running the following commands.
make 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/mailx-12.0 && install -v -m644 README mailx.1.html /usr/share/doc/mailx-12.0
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.
Last updated on 2007-01-18 13:38:19 -0600