Ok, ok I can already hear the heckling starting, and this e-mail
hasn't even left my system yet :-) But for those of us who
have to use a windoze box at work, this might be useful information,
so it's time to de-lurk and post what I've gotten done so far.
This is a preliminary look at what I've gotten done so far. As I get
more done on this, I'll post updates (if needed) at
http://www.gnt.net/~n5ial/mutt/building_mutt_on_win.html (which is
linked from http://purl.org/net/n5ialmutt).
Btw, I haven't added this to the web page, because I've forgotten all of
the relevant info, but I do remember seeing a POP/IMAP/etc. client that
can fetch mail from an exchange server...so those who are able to may
want to combine that with this (for mostly political reasons, I'm not
likely to even think about it).
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Building and Using Mutt on Windows NT
To compile (and use!) Mutt on Windoze NT (yeah, I know...but if you
have to use 'doze at work, you can at least make it look like a real
computer---I plan to use it here to catch up on Bugtraq, which I read
only for work, but receive at home (long story)...and don't have time
to read at home):
1. If you don't have Cygwin installed, do so now. You can get it from
The Cygwin Project (http://www.cygnus.com/misc/cygwin/).
2. If you haven't installed ncurses for Cygwin (B20), do so now. You
can get it in binary or source form from ftp.franken.de in
/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Hirmke_Michael/B20. The
binary is ncurses-4.2-cygwin-b20-bin.tar.gz OR
ncurses-4.2-cygwin-b20-bin.zip.
3. Once you've installed ncurses, you will need to cd to
/usr/local/lib and remove what is supposed to be a symbolic link
from ../share/terminfo to terminfo, and copy ../share/terminfo to
/usr/local/lib (cp -R ../share/terminfo .).
4. Get the source for Mutt 1.0.1 from the Mutt site (everything from
here on is based loosely on that version, but should be easily
adapted to other versions).
5. run configure as (adjust args to match your system):
sh configure --with-mailpath=d:/jdg \
--with-exec-shell=c:/cygnus/cygwin-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/bin/sh.exe
6. Edit addrbook.c in the source distribution. Move the #includes for
the three standard headers (string.h, stdlib.h, and ctype.h) and
put them ABOVE the four headers for Mutt (mutt.h, mutt_menu.h,
mapping.h, and sort.h). If you don't, compiling addrbook.c will
bomb.
7. Edit protos.h in the source distribution. Search for the line
#ifndef STDC_HEADERS
and add the following three lines above it:
#ifndef STDC_HEADERS
#define STDC_HEADERS
#endif
8. make
9. Set a couple of environment variables (see note [1] below):
TERM=vt100 ; export TERM
USER=username ; export USER
10. copy your normal .muttrc and make sure Mutt can find it.
11. Run mutt (see notes [1] and [2] below)
STATUS
As of 7 April 2000, I've gotten Mutt to compile and run. I didn't have
any mbox files, and didn't have time to create one, so I couldn't go
beyond that point. More details later
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NOTES:
[1] Note that normally, you want TERM=cygwin. I suggest using an alias
or shell function for mutt, as I do.
[2] If you plan to do something like what I'm doing, and send yourself
an mbox file from home, be sure you send it in a format that Outlook
won't recognize. If it realizes that it's an attached e-mail, it
reads your mind incorrectly and assumes (and you know what they say
about assuming things!) that you want the e-mail saved in Outlook
format, instead of as an mbox. Gzip it, etc., but make sure it doesn't
appear to be any e-mail format.
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Later,
--jim
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