Re: Building balsa on Tru64 UNIX (without pspell)

[Brian Stafford <brian stafford uklinux net>]

On Sat, 24 November 11:40 jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:

> Building fancy GNUware like all that GNOME stuff on a 64 bit / non ia32,
> non Linux, non gcc, non glibc, non ... system is masochism. ;-)
> 
> Whe website mentions that pspell and libesmtp are absolutely required.
> After spendig houres to get libesmtp compiled,

LibESMTP is not part of balsa.  Please report this on the libesmtp-devel 
mailing list (subscribers only).  Visit 
http://www.stafford.uklinux.net/libesmtp/ for more info on the mailing list.  
LibESMTP is written for a strict Posix environment and compiles with -ansi and 
-pedantic when using GCC.  If there is code that not not use Posix library 
functions or is not strict ISO compliant C, I need to know - that is a bug.  
If there is a problem with the use of autoconf et al. that is a bug too.

> I read in the FAQ that it
> is actually possible to build balsa without libesmtp. In this case a
> local MTA like sendmail is required. And that is exactely what I want
> to have: The local MUA uses the local MTA. So there should be a litle
> note about building without libesmtp on the requirements section...

I think you've totally missed the point about libESMTP and mail submission.  
libESMTP is more flexible than execing sendmail, requires less configuration 
particularly when behind firewalls etc. etc.  Also libESMTP can submit via a 
local MTA, or it can use one elsewhere on the network.  That's the point of 
networked applications.  What's more, libESMTP aims for strict RFC 2821 and 
2822 compliance and when used in Balsa, even handles Bcc: correctly - which is 
more than can be said for sendmail.

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Brian Stafford