The Balsa package contains a GNOME-2 based mail client.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 11.3 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/balsa-2.6.4.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: bebd22cb6bac87ee05255c48ee1d28dd
Download size: 3.5 MB
Estimated disk space required: 66 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (Using parallelism=4)
Aspell-0.60.8, enchant-2.3.3, GMime-3.2.7, GPGME-1.18.0, GTK+-3.24.36, and libnotify-0.8.1
MTA (that provides a sendmail command)
Compface-1.5.2, Gcr-3.41.1, gtksourceview-3.24.11, libcanberra-0.30, libsecret-0.20.5, MIT Kerberos V5-1.20.1, OpenLDAP-2.6.4, Procmail-3.22, SQLite-3.40.1, WebKitGTK-2.38.5, html2text, osmo, rubrica, yelp-tools
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/balsa
First, fix build issues when configuring without WebKitGTK+, or when using WebKitGTK+-2.38 or later.
patch -Np1 -i ../balsa-2.6.4-upstream_fixes-2.patch
Install Balsa by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--localstatedir=/var/lib \
--without-html-widget &&
make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install
--without-html-widget: This
option disables building the HTML renderer. If you want the HTML
renderer to be built, verify that you have WebKitGTK-2.38.5
installed, and then remove this option.
--with-canberra: Enable libcanberra
support.
--with-compface: Enable compface
support.
--with-gcr: Use libgcr for TLS support.
--with-gss: Enable GSSAPI support.
--with-ldap: Use this option to enable
LDAP address book support if OpenLDAP is installed.
--with-libsecret: Enable strong
password support and support for gnome-keyring to store passwords.
--with-sqlite: Use this option to
enable SQLite address book support if SQLite is installed.