INSTALL Instructions for fetchmail ================================== If you are installing from the subversion repository, see README.svn for further instructions on how to set up the checked out repository. If you have installed binaries (e.g. from a Linux RPM or DPKG, Solaris package or FreeBSD port), you can skip to step 5. The Frequently Asked Questions list, included as the file FAQ in this distributions, answers the most common questions about configuring and running fetchmail. 1. USEFUL THINGS TO INSTALL FIRST 1.1 OTP/OPIE If you want support for RFC1938-compliant one-time passwords, you'll need to install Craig Metz's OPIE libraries first and *make sure they're on the normal library path* where configure will find them. Then configure with --enable-OPIE, and fetchmail build process will detect them and compile appropriately. Note: there is no point in doing this unless your server is OTP-enabled. To test this, telnet to the server port and give it a valid USER id. If the OK response includes the string "otp-", you should install OPIE. You need version 2.32 or better. The OPIE library sources are available at http://www.inner.net/pub/opie/ You can also find OPIE and IPV6-capable servers there. 1.2 OpenSSL If you are installing OpenSSL yourself, it is recommended that you build shared OpenSSL libraries, it works better and updating OpenSSL does not then require you to reinstall all applications that use OpenSSL. Try after unpacking OpenSSL: ./config shared && make && make test && make install 1.3 gettext (internationalization) Internationalization of fetchmail requires GNU gettext (libintl and libiconv). Fetchmail, as of version 6.3.0, no longer ships its own libintl copy. 1.4 IPv6 Building in IPv6 support *requires* an up-to-date operating system. Recent Linux versions with glibc 2.1.1 or newer, FreeBSD, Solaris should be fine. If you have trouble with intl or gettext functions, try using the configure option '--with-included-gettext'. 2. CONFIGURE 2.1 Basic options Installing fetchmail is easy. From within this directory, type: ./configure --with-ssl if you have OpenSSL (and its developer packages, if separate) installed on your system, or if you don't or do not need SSL/TLS support: ./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 'configure --help' for more. POP2 support is no longer compiled in by default, as POP2 is way obsolete and there don't seem to be any live servers for it anymore. You can configure it back in if you want with 'configure --enable-POP2', but leaving it out cuts the executable's size slightly. Support for CompuServe's RPA authentication method (rather similar to APOP) is available but also not included in the standard build. You can compile it in with 'configure --enable-RPA'. Support for Microsoft's NTLM authentication method is also available but not included in the standard build either. You can compile it in with 'configure --enable-NTLM'. Support for authentication using RFC1731 GSSAPI is available but also not included by default. You can compile it in with 'configure --with-gssapi', which looks for GSSAPI support in standard locations (/usr, /usr/local). If you set --with-GSSAPI=DIR you can direct the build to look for GSSAPI support under DIR. Hooks for the OpenSSL library (see http://www.openssl.org/) are included in the distribution. To enable these, configure with --with-ssl; they are not included in the standard build. Fetchmail's configure script will probe some default locations for the include/openssl/ssl.h file. If this doesn't work (i. e. configure prints "SSL support enabled, but OpenSSL not found" and aborts), you need to give the explicit prefix of your OpenSSL installation (specify the directory that contains OpenSSL's "include" subdirectory), for instance: "--with-ssl=/example/path" would assume that you have an /example/path/include/openssl/ssl.h header file. 2.2 Advanced options Specifying --with-kerberos=DIR or --with-kerberos5=DIR will tell the fetchmail build process to look in DIR for Kerberos support. Configure normally looks in /usr/kerberos and /usr/athena; if you specify this option with an argument it will look in DIR first. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be good standardization of where Kerberos lives. If your configuration doesn't match one of the four that fetchmail's configure.in knows about, you may find you have to hand-hack the Makefile a bit. You may also want to hand-hack the Makefile if you're writing a custom or bleeding-edge resolver library. In that case you will probably want to add -lresolv or whatever to the definition of LOADLIBS. It is also possible to explicitly condition out the support for POP3, IMAP, and ETRN (with configure arguments of --disable-POP3, --disable-IMAP, and --disable-ETRN respectively). 3. BUILD Run make This should compile fetchmail for your system. If fetchmail fails to build properly, see the FAQ section B on build-time problems. 4. 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. You can use the configure options --bindir and --mandir to change these. If you are tight on disk space, you can run instead make install-strip NOTE: If you are using an MTA other than sendmail (such as qmail, exim, or smail), see the FAQ (section T) for discussion of any special configuration steps that may be necessary. 5. SET UP A RUN CONTROL FILE See the man page for a description of how to configure your individual preferences. If you're upgrading from popclient, see question F4 in the FAQ file. 6. TEST I strongly recommend that your first fetchmail run use the -v, -a and -k options, in case there is something not quite right with your server, your local delivery configuration or your port 25 listener. Also, beware of aliases that direct your local mail back to the server host! This software is known to work with the qpop/popper series of freeware POP3 servers; also with the IMAP2bis and IMAP4 servers that are distributed with Pine from the University of Washington; also with the Cyrus IMAP server from CMU. This covers all the servers commonly hosted on Linux and *BSD systems. It also works with the IMAP service of Microsoft Exchange, despite the fact that Microsoft Exchange is extremely broken (returns incorrect message lengths in LIST responses). See the FAQ, section S, for detailed advice on running with various servers. 7. REPORTING BUGS You should read the FAQ file question G3 before reporting a bug. 8. USE IT Once you've verified your configuration, you can start fetchmail to run in background and forget about it. Enjoy! END of text file INSTALL