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Alpine/Pico/Pilot/Web Alpine/Imapd Distribution
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* Copyright 2007 University of Washington
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* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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* You may obtain a copy of the License at
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* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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* ========================================================================
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For the latest info about Alpine, see http://www.washington.edu/alpine
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This Alpine distribution includes:
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alpine - The Alpine source directory
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configure - Script to set system-specific configuration, defaults
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contrib - Contributed ports and additions
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doc - Documentation directory. The main documentation is tech-notes.txt
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imap - Source tree containing C-Client IMAP implementation
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m4 - macros used in the configure process
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packages - Scripts for building packages for various Linux distributions
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pico - The Pico and Pilot source directory
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pith - Core functions common to Alpine/Web Alpine
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po - localization data
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web - Source and scripts for web-based version of Alpine
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Most of the documentation is in doc/tech-notes.txt. It is not user
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level documentation, but there are things in it some users might find
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useful. The directory doc/tech-notes contains source for
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doc/tech-notes.txt in HTML format which can be viewed via a Web
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browser by opening doc/tech-notes/index.html.
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If you are reading this, you have presumably succeeded in extracting
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the distribution from the compressed tar archive file, via the following
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command, or equivalent:
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Some of the instructions that follow assume that your current workding
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directory is the alpine-X.XX directory created by the un-tar process
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Alpine build process uses GNU autoconf. It should be sufficient to build
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alpine by typing the commands:
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For a list of configuration options and default settings type:
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The executables produced are:
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alpine The Alpine mailer. Once compiled this should work just fine on
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your system with no other files than this binary, and no
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modifications to your system. Optionally you may create two
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configuration files, /usr/local/lib/pine.conf and
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/usr/local/lib/pine.info. See the documentation for details.
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pico The standalone editor similar to the Alpine message composer.
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This is a very simple straight forward text editor.
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pilot The standalone file system navigator.
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The Web Alpine serveret which manages the
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imapd The IMAP daemon. If you want to run alpine in client/server mode,
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this is the daemon to run on the server. Installing this
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requires system privileges and modifications to /etc/services.
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See doc/tech-notes for more details.
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mtest The test IMAP client, an absolutely minimal mail client, useful
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rpload Utility for uploading a local pinerc or address book to an IMAP
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rpdump Utility for downloading a pinerc or address book to the
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Utility for performing various operations on mailboxes,
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be they local or remote.
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In general "make install" should place alpine, pico and pilot, and
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their corresponding man pages, in the proper directory for your
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system. As the remaining binaries are intended for specific uses or
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are a component of a larger package, their installation is typically
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