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2 Alpine/Pico/Pilot/Web Alpine/Imapd Distribution
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6 * Copyright 2013-2022 Eduardo Chappa
7 * Copyright 2006-2009 University of Washington
9 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
10 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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18 For the latest info about Alpine, see http://repo.or.cz/alpine.git
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24 This Alpine distribution includes:
26 alpine - The Alpine source directory
27 configure - Script to set system-specific configuration, defaults
28 contrib - Contributed ports and additions
29 doc - Documentation directory. The main documentation is
31 imap - Source tree containing C-Client IMAP implementation
32 m4 - macros used in the configure process
33 packages - Scripts for building packages for various Linux
35 pico - The Pico and Pilot source directory
36 pith - Core functions common to Alpine/Web Alpine
37 po - localization data
38 web - Source and scripts for web-based version of Alpine
40 Most of the documentation is in doc/tech-notes.txt. It is not user
41 level documentation, but there are things in it some users might find
42 useful. The directory doc/tech-notes contains source for
43 doc/tech-notes.txt in HTML format which can be viewed via a Web
44 pbrowser by opening doc/tech-notes/index.html.
46 User level documentation for Alpine is contained in the programs
47 themselves in the form of context-sensitive help.
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54 If you are reading this, you have presumably succeeded in extracting
55 the distribution from the compressed tar archive file, via the
56 following command, or equivalent:
58 tar -Jxf alpine.tar.xz
60 Some of the instructions that follow assume that your current working
61 directory is the alpine-X.XX directory created by the un-tar process
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69 The Alpine build process is based on GNU autotools. On most Unix
70 systems, generating a suitable Alpine binary from the source
71 distribution should be as simple as typing the commands:
76 For a list of configuration options and default Alpine settings type:
80 Note, the included UW IMAP Toolkit used for mailbox access does not
81 make use of GNU autotools. However, in most cases Alpine's configure
82 script should set the appropriate make target and options. The
83 targeted OS can be set from Alpine's configure command line, but in
84 rare cases more significant manual intervention may be required. If
85 problems are encountered, see imap/README for more details.
87 The PC-Alpine build is based on the Microsoft C compiler and
88 libraries. The Alpine Team bases builds on Visual Studio 8 from the
89 command line using the static build.bat batch and makefiles to
90 generate suitable binaries.
92 The Web Alpine application requires a few extra, manual steps to get
93 all the components built and installed. See web/README for an
94 explanation of the various components and web/INSTALL for a basic
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102 The executables produced are:
104 alpine The Alpine mailer. Once compiled this should work just fine on
105 your system with no other files than this binary, and no
106 modifications to your system. Optionally you may create two
107 configuration files, /usr/local/lib/pine.conf and
108 /usr/local/lib/pine.info. See the documentation for details.
110 pico The standalone editor similar to the Alpine message composer.
111 This is a very simple straight forward text editor.
113 pilot The standalone file system navigator.
116 The Web Alpine serveret that is the primary component of
119 imapd The IMAP daemon. If you want to run alpine in client/server
120 mode, this is the daemon to run on the server. Installing this
121 requires system privileges and modifications to /etc/services.
122 See doc/tech-notes for more details.
124 mtest The test IMAP client, an absolutely minimal mail client, useful
127 rpload Utility for uploading a local pinerc or address book to an IMAP
130 rpdump Utility for downloading a pinerc or address book to the
134 Utility for performing various operations on mailboxes,
135 be they local or remote.
137 In general "make install" should place alpine, pico and pilot, and
138 their corresponding man pages, in the proper directory for your
139 system. As the remaining binaries are intended for specific uses or
140 are a component of a larger package, their installation is typically