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 4. SET UP A RUN CONTROL FILE
51 See the man page or the file sample.rcfile for a description of how to
52 configure your individual preferences.
54 Note: if you have been using popclient (the ancestor of this program)
55 at version 3.0b6 or later, do this
57 (cd ~; mv ~/.poprc ~/.fetchmailrc)
63 I strongly recommend that your first fetchmail run use the -v and -k
64 options, in case there is something not quite right with your local
65 delivery configuration or your port 25 listener. Also, beware
66 of aliases that direct your local mail back to the server host!