Mail/News Clients

Mail Clients help us retrieve (Fetchmail), sort (Procmail), read and compose responses (Nail, Mutt, Pine, Kmail, Balsa, Evolution, Mozilla) to email.

News clients also help us retrieve, sort, read and compose responses, but these messages travel through USENET (a worldwide bulletin board system) using the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP).

Nail-10.7

Introduction to Nail

The Nail package contains a command-line Mail User Agent that is compatible with the mail command available in commercial Unix versions. The mail command is useful for writing scripts.

Package information

Download (HTTP): http://nail.berlios.de/archive/nail-10.7.tar.bz2
Download (FTP):
Download size: 152 KB
Estimated Disk space required: 3.8 MB
Estimated build time: 0.10 SBU

Nail dependencies

Optional

OpenSSL-0.9.7d and MTA

Installation of Nail

Install Nail by running the following commands. (Note: If you would like Nail to be linked against OpenSSL, add --with-openssl to the configure command mentioned below.)

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install &&
ln -sf nail /usr/bin/mail

Configuring Nail

Config files

/etc/nail.rc

The Nail package contains nail, a program compatible with mail found on commercial Unix versions.

Description

nail

nail is a command-line mail user agent.