Mutt version 1.4.2.3 - How to Download and Install on Mac OS X
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    version 1.4.2.3

      View the most recent changes for the mutt port at: mutt.darwinports.com/diff
      Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for mutt.
      The raw portfile for mutt 1.4.2.3 is located here:
      http://mutt.darwinports.com/dports/mail/mutt/Portfile
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      The mutt Portfile 39121 2008-08-08 20:00:23Z simon macports.org $

      PortSystem 1.0

      Name: mutt
      Version: 1.4.2.3
      Revision: 1
      Category: mail
      Platform: darwin linux
      Maintainers: simon openmaintainer
      Description: Mongrel of Mail User Agents (part Elm, Pine, Mush, mh, etc)
      Long Description: Mutt -- "The Mongrel of Mail User Agents" (part Elm, part Pine, part mh, part slrn, part everything else) is an interactive screen-oriented mailer program that supersedes Elm, Pine, mail and mailx. Features include color support, message threading, MIME support (including RFC1522 support for encoded headers), customizable key bindings, POP3, Delivery Status Notification (DSN) support, PGP/MIME, and S/MIME.

      Homepage: http://www.mutt.org/
      Master Sites: ftp://ftp.mutt.org/mutt/
      Checksums: ${distfiles} md5 dcb94661827dd090fa813e73e122ea0c sha1 b23e46873f0247e85a4417cf338d64ea698c9b2c rmd160 59e66c308cd4967e587ad1dc73dd76c7f0d06ef1

      depends_lib port:gettext port:libiconv port:ncurses

      patch.args -p1

      configure.args --disable-warnings --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --with-docdir=${prefix}/share/doc/mutt

      platform darwin {
      configure.args-append --with-libiconv-prefix=${prefix}
      depends_lib port:gettext
      }

      platform linux {
      configure.cflags -I/usr/kerberos/include
      }

      Variant: pop description {POP support} {
      configure.args-append --enable-pop
      }
      Variant: imap description {IMAP support} {
      configure.args-append --enable-imap
      }
      Variant: ssl description {Secure Sockets Layer support} {
      configure.args-append --with-ssl
      depends_lib-append port:openssl
      }

      Variant: debug description {Debugging support} {
      configure.args-append --enable-debug
      }

      # use file size attribute instead of access time
      Variant: buffy {
      configure.args-append --enable-buffy-size
      }

      Variant: compress description {Compressed folders} {
      configure.args-append --enable-compressed
      patch_sites-append http://www.spinnaker.de/mutt/compressed/
      patchfiles-append patch-1.4.2.3.rr.compressed.1.gz
      checksums-append patch-1.4.2.3.rr.compressed.1.gz md5 e681845be515a02f4607db66d7bed919
      }

      Variant: nntp conflicts compress description {NNTP support} {
      depends_lib-append port:automake port:autoconf
      configure.args-append --enable-nntp

      pre-configure {
      system "cd ${worksrcpath}; aclocal -I m4; autoheader;
      cd m4; make -f Makefile.am.in; cd ..;
      automake --foreign; autoconf"
      }

      patch_sites-append http://www.mutt.org.ua/download/mutt-1.4.2.3/
      patchfiles-append patch-1.4.2.3.vvv.nntp.gz
      checksums-append patch-1.4.2.3.vvv.nntp.gz md5 94344bf43c12c771e234a6675d3acdc7
      }

    If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.

    Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:


      %  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/mutt
      % sudo port install mutt
      Password:
    You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

      ---> Fetching mutt
      ---> Verifying checksum for mutt
      ---> Extracting mutt
      ---> Configuring mutt
      ---> Building mutt with target all
      ---> Staging mutt into destroot
      ---> Installing mutt
    - Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using mutt with these commands:
      %  man mutt
      % apropos mutt
      % which mutt
      % locate mutt

     Where to find more information:

    Darwin Ports



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