hi all,make like this compiles the code.
i have been asking questions ,but i could not get any
responses.
I am trying to install courier imap srever on linux
system.
i have read the documentation but i have some problems
please can anyone help me.
i have downloaded courier imap and i have kept in my
university account where a student doesnot have
administrative permissions.
to compile and install the server i have followed the
rules given in documentation. that is
$ ./configure $ make
make check is not essential, but runs some simple tests to make sure compilation went well.
then i did not understand what does $ make check and
$make install do.make install takes the compiled applications and copies them to the final location; this way, you don't overwrite any existing installation until make check is happy, if you don't want to. You might also need make install-configure
as said in the documentation if installation is successful, then there exists /usr/lib/courier-imap directory. but as i said i dont have permission to write into lib. so i have used the option for configure, that is --prefix= ../imap/ .
The online documentation assumes you will be putting stuff into the default locations. If you change the locations, you need to take account of that when following instructions. Incidentally, once installed, the man pages are modified to use the locations actually configured.
You probably haven't run make install
then i could see some directories in ../imap/ like bin/ etc/ libexec/ man/ sbin/ share/ var/
also the documentation says to use the following command to start server $/usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/imapd.rc start but i dont have any directory in /usr/lib like courier-imap. but i could able to see the file imap.rc in ../imap/libexec/imapd.rc but if i run the above command ,it says the command not found.
can anyone p-lease help me or give me suggestions where i am doing wrong and what exactly i have to do.
Without root access, you might have some fun getting the IMAP server to bind to any port number under 1024. Good luck...
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Bill Michell
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