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4 Alpine/Pico/Pilot/Web Alpine/Imapd Distribution
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8 /* ====================================================================
9 * Copyright 2006-2009 University of Washington
11 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
12 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
13 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
15 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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20 For the latest info about Alpine, see http://www.washington.edu/alpine
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26 This Alpine distribution includes:
28 alpine - The Alpine source directory
29 configure - Script to set system-specific configuration, defaults
30 contrib - Contributed ports and additions
31 doc - Documentation directory. The main documentation is
33 imap - Source tree containing C-Client IMAP implementation
34 m4 - macros used in the configure process
35 packages - Scripts for building packages for various Linux
37 pico - The Pico and Pilot source directory
38 pith - Core functions common to Alpine/Web Alpine
39 po - localization data
40 web - Source and scripts for web-based version of Alpine
42 Most of the documentation is in doc/tech-notes.txt. It is not user
43 level documentation, but there are things in it some users might find
44 useful. The directory doc/tech-notes contains source for
45 doc/tech-notes.txt in HTML format which can be viewed via a Web
46 pbrowser by opening doc/tech-notes/index.html.
48 User level documentation for Alpine is contained in the programs
49 themselves in the form of context-sensitive help.
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56 If you are reading this, you have presumably succeeded in extracting
57 the distribution from the compressed tar archive file, via the
58 following command, or equivalent:
62 Some of the instructions that follow assume that your current workding
63 directory is the alpine-X.XX directory created by the un-tar process
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71 The Alpine build process is based on GNU autotools. On most Unix
72 systems, generating a suitable Alpine binary from the source
73 distribution should be as simple as typing the commands:
78 For a list of configuration options and default Alpine settings type:
82 Note, the included UW IMAP Toolkit used for mailbox access does not
83 make use of GNU autotools. However, in most cases Alpine's configure
84 script should set the appropriate make target and options. The
85 targetted OS can be set from Alpine's configure command line, but in
86 rare cases more significant manual intervention may be required. If
87 problems are encountered, see imap/README for more details.
89 The PC-Alpine build is based on the Microsoft C compiler and
90 libraries. The Alpine Team bases builds on Visual Studio 8 from the
91 command line using the static build.bat batch and makefiles to
92 generate suitable binaries.
94 The Web Alpine application requires a few extra, manual steps to get
95 all the components built and installed. See web/README for an
96 explanation of the various components and web/INSTALL for a basic
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101 RESULTING EXECUTABLES
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104 The executables produced are:
106 alpine The Alpine mailer. Once compiled this should work just fine on
107 your system with no other files than this binary, and no
108 modifications to your system. Optionally you may create two
109 configuration files, /usr/local/lib/pine.conf and
110 /usr/local/lib/pine.info. See the documentation for details.
112 pico The standalone editor similar to the Alpine message composer.
113 This is a very simple straight forward text editor.
115 pilot The standalone file system navigator.
118 The Web Alpine serveret that is the primary component of
121 imapd The IMAP daemon. If you want to run alpine in client/server
122 mode, this is the daemon to run on the server. Installing this
123 requires system privileges and modifications to /etc/services.
124 See doc/tech-notes for more details.
126 mtest The test IMAP client, an absolutely minimal mail client, useful
129 rpload Utility for uploading a local pinerc or address book to an IMAP
132 rpdump Utility for downloading a pinerc or address book to the
136 Utility for performing various operations on mailboxes,
137 be they local or remote.
139 In general "make install" should place alpine, pico and pilot, and
140 their corresponding man pages, in the proper directory for your
141 system. As the remaining binaries are intended for specific uses or
142 are a component of a larger package, their installation is typically
147 $Id: README 1204 2009-02-02 19:54:23Z hubert@u.washington.edu $