1 INSTALL Instructions for fetchmail
3 If you have installed binaries (e.g. from an RPM) you can skip to step 4.
5 If you are a Linux system packager, be aware that the build process generates
6 an RPM spec file at fetchmail.spec.
10 Installing fetchmail is easy. From within this directory, type:
14 The autoconfiguration script will spend a bit of time figuring out the
15 specifics of your system. If you want to specify a particular compiler
16 (e.g. you have gcc but want to compile with cc), set the environment
17 variable CC before you run configure.
19 The configure script accepts certain standard configuration options.
20 These include --prefix, --exec-prefix, --bindir, --infodir, --mandir,
21 and --srcdir. Do `config --help' for more.
23 If you're running QNX, edit the distributed Makefile directly. The
24 QNX values for various macros are there but commented out; all you
25 have to do is uncomment them.
33 This will compile fetchmail for your system. Note that in order to
34 build it, you'll need either flex at version 2.5.3 org greater, or lex.
38 Lastly, become root and run
42 This will install fetchmail. By default, fetchmail will be installed
43 in /usr/local/bin, with the man page in /usr/local/man/man1. If you
44 wish to change these defaults, edit the Makefile AFTER you run
45 "configure" but BEFORE you run "make install." You can easily choose
46 a prefix other than /usr/local, or you can choose completely different
47 directories for each item.
49 NOTE: If you are using exim, you must configure it to accept local
50 addresses as valid RCPT TO lines.
52 4. SET UP A RUN CONTROL FILE
54 See the man page or the file sample.rcfile for a description of how to
55 configure your individual preferences.
57 Note: if you have been using popclient (the ancestor of this program)
58 at version 3.0b6 or later, do this
60 (cd ~; mv ~/.poprc ~/.fetchmailrc)
66 I strongly recommend that your first fetchmail run use the -v and -k
67 options, in case there is something not quite right with your server,
68 your local delivery configuration or your port 25 listener. Also,
69 beware of aliases that direct your local mail back to the server host!
71 This software is known to work with the qpop/popper series of
72 freeware POP3 servers; also with the imapd servers that are
73 distributed with Pine from the University of Washington. Other
74 POP3 servers have been known to give it indigestion. Test carefully!
75 If you have problems, switch to imap.