glfs/basicnet/mailnews/nail.xml
Randy McMurchy 7caff94126 Updated to Nail-11.11
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
%general-entities;
<!ENTITY nail-download-http "http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nail/nail-&nail-version;.tar.bz2">
<!ENTITY nail-download-ftp " ">
<!ENTITY nail-size "264 KB">
<!ENTITY nail-buildsize "2.8 MB">
<!ENTITY nail-time "0.06 SBU">
]>
<sect1 id="nail" xreflabel="Nail-&nail-version;">
<sect1info>
<othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
<date>$Date$</date>
</sect1info>
<?dbhtml filename="nail.html"?>
<title>Nail-&nail-version;</title>
<sect2>
<title>Introduction to <application>Nail</application></title>
<para>The <application>Nail</application> package contains a
command-line Mail User Agent that is compatible with the
<command>mail</command> command available in commercial Unix versions. The
<command>mail</command> command is useful for writing scripts.</para>
<sect3><title>Package information</title>
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink
url="&nail-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink
url="&nail-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download size: &nail-size;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated Disk space required:
&nail-buildsize;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated build time:
&nail-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3><title><application>Nail</application> dependencies</title>
<sect4><title>Optional</title>
<para><xref linkend="openssl"/> and
<ulink url="../server/mail.html">MTA</ulink></para></sect4>
</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Installation of <application>Nail</application></title>
<para>Install <application>Nail</application> by running the following
commands.</para>
<screen><userinput><command>make SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail &amp;&amp;
make PREFIX=/usr install UCBINSTALL=/usr/bin/install &amp;&amp;
ln -sf nail /usr/bin/mail</command></userinput></screen>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Command explanations</title>
<para><command>make SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail</command>: This changes the
default <acronym>MTA</acronym> path of <command>/usr/lib/sendmail</command>.
</para>
<para><command>make PREFIX=/usr install UCBINSTALL=/usr/bin/install</command>:
This changes the default installation path of
<filename class='directory'>/usr/local</filename> and the default
<command>install</command> command path of
<filename class='directory'>/usr/ucb</filename>.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Configuring <application>Nail</application></title>
<sect3><title>Config files</title>
<para><filename>/etc/nail.rc</filename>, <filename>~/.mailrc</filename> and
<filename>~/.nailrc</filename></para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Contents</title>
<para>The <application>Nail</application> package contains
<command>nail</command>, a program compatible with
<command>mail</command> found on commercial Unix versions.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2><title>Description</title>
<sect3><title>nail</title>
<para><command>nail</command> is a command-line mail user agent.</para></sect3>
</sect2>
</sect1>