DeforaOS Mailer

About Mailer

Mailer is a mail client application for the DeforaOS desktop.

It supports local mail folders in the mbox format, as well as POP 3 and IMAP 4 servers, including connectivity over SSL. It is possible to access GMail through its IMAP 4 gateway. It currently requires a functional local e-mail service to send e-mails; this is performed through the sendmail(1) command.

Mailer is part of the DeforaOS Project, and distributed under the terms of the BSD License (2-clause).

Compiling Mailer

Mailer depends on the following components:

• Gtk+ 2 or 3
• OpenSSL
• DeforaOS libDesktop
• DocBook-XSL (for the manual pages)
• GTK-Doc (for the API documentation)

With GCC, this should then be enough to compile and install Mailer:

$ make install

To install (or package) Mailer in a different location:

$ make PREFIX="/another/prefix" install

Mailer also supports DESTDIR, to be installed in a staging directory; for instance:

$ make DESTDIR="/staging/directory" PREFIX="/another/prefix" install

Documentation

Manual pages for each of the executables installed are available in the doc folder. They are written in the DocBook-XML format, and need libxslt and DocBook-XSL to be installed for conversion to the HTML or man file format.

Likewise, the API reference for libMailer (accounts and plug-ins) is available in the doc/gtkdoc folder, and is generated using gtk-doc.