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INSTALL Instructions for fetchmail
1. CONFIGURE
Installing fetchmail is easy. From within this directory, type:
./configure
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
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 `config --help' for more.
If you're running QNX, edit the distributed Makefile directly. The
QNX values for various macros are there but commented out; all you
have to do is uncomment them.
2. MAKE
Next run
make
This will compile fetchmail for your system. Note that in order to
build it, you'll need either flex at version 2.5.3 org greater, or lex.
3. INSTALL
Lastly, become root and run
make install
This will install fetchmail. By default, fetchmail will be installed
in /usr/local/bin, with the man page in /usr/local/man/man1. If you
wish to change these defaults, edit the Makefile AFTER you run
"configure" but BEFORE you run "make install." You can easily choose
a prefix other than /usr/local, or you can choose completely different
directories for each item.
Note: if you intended to use RPOP (which we don't recommend, you
should set up APOP), you'll have to make fetchmail suid root. This
is so it can call rresvport and bind to a privileged port, so the
server's TCP/IP will see that and know it's OK to let it bind to
a privileged port at the other end.
4. SET UP A RUN CONTROL FILE
See the man page or the file sample.rcfile for a description of how to
configure your individual preferences.
Note: if you have been using popclient (the ancestor of this program)
at version 3.0b6 or later, do this
(cd ~; mv ~/.poprc ~/.fetchmailrc)
in order to migrate.
5. TEST
I strongly recommend that your first fetchmail run use the -v and -k
options, in case there is something not quite right with your local
delivery configuration or your port 25 listener. Also, beware
of aliases that direct your local mail back to the server host!
6. USE IT
Enjoy!
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