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@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@ INSTALL Instructions for fetchmail ================================== +If you are installing from the subversion repository, see README.svn for +further instructions on how to set up the checked out repository. + If you have installed binaries (e.g. from a Linux RPM or DPKG, Solaris package or FreeBSD port), you can skip to step 5. @@ -10,6 +13,8 @@ running fetchmail. 1. USEFUL THINGS TO INSTALL FIRST +1.1 OTP/OPIE + If you want support for RFC1938-compliant one-time passwords, you'll need to install Craig Metz's OPIE libraries first and *make sure they're on the normal library path* where configure will find them. Then @@ -24,23 +29,34 @@ you should install OPIE. You need version 2.32 or better. The OPIE library sources are available at http://www.inner.net/pub/opie/ You can also find OPIE and IPV6-capable servers there. +1.2 OpenSSL + +If you are installing OpenSSL yourself, it is recommended that you build +shared OpenSSL libraries, it works better and updating OpenSSL does not +then require you to reinstall all applications that use OpenSSL. + +Try after unpacking OpenSSL: + + ./config shared && make && make test && make install + +1.3 IPv6 + Building in IPv6 support *requires* an up-to-date operating system. Recent Linux versions with glibc 2.1.1 or newer, FreeBSD, Solaris should be fine. If you have trouble with intl or gettext functions, try using the -configure option `--with-included-gettext'. +configure option '--with-included-gettext'. 2. CONFIGURE +2.1 Basic options + Installing fetchmail is easy. From within this directory, type: ./configure -(If your gettext is old, you may need to include the ---with-included-gettext option). - The autoconfiguration script will spend a bit of time figuring out the specifics of your system. If you want to specify a particular compiler (e.g. you have gcc but want to compile with cc), set the environment @@ -48,24 +64,24 @@ variable CC before you run configure. The configure script accepts certain standard configuration options. These include --prefix, --exec-prefix, --bindir, --infodir, --mandir, -and --srcdir. Do `configure --help' for more. +and --srcdir. Do 'configure --help' for more. POP2 support is no longer compiled in by default, as POP2 is way obsolete and there don't seem to be any live servers for it anymore. You can -configure it back in if you want with `configure --enable-POP2', but +configure it back in if you want with 'configure --enable-POP2', but leaving it out cuts the executable's size slightly. Support for CompuServe's RPA authentication method (rather similar to APOP) is available but also not included in the standard build. You -can compile it in with `configure --enable-RPA'. +can compile it in with 'configure --enable-RPA'. Support for Microsoft's NTLM authentication method is also available but also not included in the standard build. You can compile it in -with `configure --enable-NTLM'. +with 'configure --enable-NTLM'. Support for authentication using RFC1731 GSSAPI is available but also not included by default. You can compile it in with -`configure --with-gssapi', which looks for GSSAPI support in standard +'configure --with-gssapi', which looks for GSSAPI support in standard locations (/usr, /usr/local). If you set --with-GSSAPI=DIR you can direct the build to look for GSSAPI support under DIR. @@ -90,8 +106,8 @@ MDA use. If you wish to proceed nonetheless, do one of: A disadvantage of using procmail is that local alias expansion according to /etc/aliases won't get done if we fall back to it. -Advanced configuration: ------------------------ +2.2 Advanced options + Specifying --with-kerberos=DIR or --with-kerberos5=DIR will tell the fetchmail build process to look in DIR for Kerberos support. Configure normally looks in /usr/kerberos and /usr/athena; if you @@ -111,7 +127,7 @@ POP3, IMAP, and ETRN (with configure arguments of --disable-POP3, --disable-IMAP, and --disable-ETRN respectively). -3. MAKE +3. BUILD Run |