pine-4.53

Introduction to Pine

Download location (HTTP):       http://mirror.sit.wisc.edu/pub/net/mail/pine/pine4.53.tar.bz2
Download location (FTP):        ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pine4.53.tar.bz2
Version used:                   4.53
Package size:                   2.7 MB
Estimated Disk space required:  48 MB

Required patches:
Download location (FTP):        ftp://ftp.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs-patches/cvs/pine-4.44-fhs.patch.bz2

The Pine package contains the Pine Mail User Agent and several server daemons for various mail protocols, in addition to some nice file and directory editing/browsing programs.

Installation of Pine

Install Pine by running the following commands:

patch -Np1 -i ../pine-4.44-fhs.patch && ./build slx DEBUG='-Os ' MAILSPOOL='/var/mail' \ SSLDIR=/usr SSLCERTS=/etc/ssl/certs && cp doc/pine.1 /usr/share/man/man1 && cd bin && install pine /usr/bin

Command explanations

patch -Np1 -i ../pine-4.44-fhs.patch : This patch will make Pine use /etc for configuration files.

The build procedure for Pine is somewhat unusual, in that options usually passed as ./configure options or housed in $CFLAGS must all be passed on the command line to the ./build script.

./build slx : Pine offers quite a few target platforms, slx specifies Linux using -lcrypt to get the crypt function. See the doc/pine-ports file for more information and other authentication options.

DEBUG='-Os ' : Optimize binaries for size.

MAILSPOOL='/var/mail' : Location of mail spool files, /var/mail.

cd bin && install pine /usr/bin

This is all that is required to install Pine, all other executables may be installed in the same manner.

Configuring Pine

Contents

The pine package contains pine, pico, pilot, imapd, ipop2d, ipop3d, mtest, rpload and rpdump.

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