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). --------------------------- CUT HERE --------------------------- 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.... _________________________________________________________________ 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. --------------------------- CUT HERE --------------------------- Later, --jim -- 73 DE N5IAL (/4) | Peter da Silva: No, try "rm -rf /" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Dave Aronson: As your life flashes before ICBM / Hurricane: | your eyes, in the unit of time known as an 30.39735N 86.60439W | ohnosecond.... (alt.sysadmin.recovery)
