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, found at https://www.defora.org/.

Mailer depends on the following components:

• Gtk+ 2.4 or later, or Gtk+ 3.0 or later
• OpenSSL
• DeforaOS libDesktop
• an implementation of make
• gettext (libintl) for translations
• DocBook-XSL (for the manual pages)
• GTK-Doc (for the API documentation)

With these installed, the following command should be enough to compile Keyboard on most systems:

$ make

The following command will then install Mailer:

$ make install

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

$ make clean
$ 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

On some systems, the Makefiles shipped can be re-generated accordingly thanks to the DeforaOS configure tool.

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.

DeforaOS Mailer is subject to the terms of the 2-clause BSD license. Please see the COPYING file for more information.