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s-nail - Basic commandline MUA (mail user agent), mail/Mail/nail/mailx ChangeLog

Web site:	https://www.sdaoden.eu/code.html#s-mailx
Repository:	https://github.com/sdaoden/s-mailx

HOWTO

# S-nail 14.9.24 (2022-03-26)
# ==============
# nail became Heirloom mailx
# mailx development stopped
# S-nail development started
# S-nail may next be renamed S-mailx

# Slackware 8.0, 8.1: mailx 8.1.1 (BSD mailx)
# Slackware 9.0: nail 10.4
# Slackware 9.1: nail 10.5
# Slackware 10.0: nail 10.7
# Slackware 10.1: nail 11.20
# Slackware 10.2: nail 11.24
# Slackware 11.0, 12.0: mailx 12.1
# Slackware 12.1, 12.2: mailx 12.3
# Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37: mailx 12.4
# Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2: mailx 12.5
# Slackware 15.0: s-nail 14.9.23

# S-nail 14.9.24 announcement:
# S-nail web site
# or
# S-mail mailing list

# S-nail supports OpenSSL 3.0 as of version 14.9.19

# If source is not for you, there are Slackware packages for S-nail here:
# Slackware64-current
# Slackware-current
# packages.slackware.com: s-nail-14.9.24-i586-2.txz
# slackbuilds.org: 14.2

# Prerequisites:
# OpenSSL or LibreSSL (optional; for SSL/TLS)
# Kerberos (optional)

# Get the tarball
cd
test -f installed/s-nail-14.9.24.tar.xz &&
mv -f installed/s-nail-14.9.24.tar.xz .
test ! -f s-nail-14.9.24.tar.xz &&
wget https://ftp.sdaoden.eu/s-nail-14.9.24.tar.xz

# Verify tarball w/ sha256sum:
echo "2714d6b8fb2af3b363fc7c79b76d058753716345d1b6ebcd8870ecd0e4f7ef\
8c  s-nail-14.9.24.tar.xz" | sha256sum -c

# Extract the source
mkdir -p -m 0700 ~/src
cd ~/src
find -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "s-nail-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
tar xJvf ~/s-nail-14.9.24.tar.xz
cd s-nail-14.9.24
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .

# Read ./README, ./INSTALL, and if this is an upgrade ./NEWS

# If you pass VAL_MAILX=mailx to it you can cause the binary to be named
# mailx, which is probably going to happen in the future.  We leave it
# s-nail here and add a bunch of symlinks for nail/mail/Mail compatibility.

# Configure the build
make \
VAL_PREFIX=/usr \
VAL_SYSCONFDIR=/etc \
VAL_MANDIR=/usr/man \
VAL_MTA=/usr/sbin/sendmail \
config

# Build it
make build

# Test the build
make test

# Become root to install it
su

# Remove the Slackware package for s-nail and also nail and mailx
test -x /sbin/removepkg && /sbin/removepkg s-nail nail mailx

# You may still have an old /etc/nail.rc or /etc/mailx.rc from the Slackware
# package
test ! -d ~/backup && mkdir -p -m 0700 ~/backup
test -f /etc/nail.rc && mv /etc/nail.rc ~/backup/nail.rc-$(date +%Y%m%d)
test -f /etc/mailx.rc && mv /etc/mailx.rc ~/backup/mailx.rc-$(date +%Y%m%d)

# Install it
make install

# Remove symlinks and binaries that may cause confusion or symlinks pointing
# to the wrong place
( cd /bin ; rm -f nail Mail mail mailx )
( cd /usr/bin ; rm -f nail Mail mail mailx )

# Create symlinks
( cd /usr/bin
  ln -s s-nail mailx
  ln -s s-nail nail )
( cd /bin
  ln -s /usr/bin/s-nail Mail
  ln -s /usr/bin/s-nail mail
  ln -s /usr/bin/s-nail mailx )

# If you mount /usr to a remote filesystem, may want to cp s-nail to /bin
# instead of using a symlink

# Become your non-root user again
exit

# Save the tarball for later
cd
mkdir -p -m 0700 installed
rm -f installed/s-nail-*.tar.*
mv s-nail-14.9.24.tar.xz installed/

# If you ever want to uninstall S-nail (?), this should do it:
cd
su
test -d src/s-nail-* && ( cd src/s-nail-* ; make uninstall )
test -x /usr/bin/s-nail-uninstall.sh && /usr/bin/s-nail-uninstall.sh
( cd /etc ; rm -f nail.rc s-nail.rc )
rm -f /usr/bin/s-nail /usr/man/man1/s-nail.1 /usr/libexec/s-nail-privsep \
/usr/bin/s-nail-uninstall.sh
# Look for broken symlinks in /bin and /usr/bin
exit
find ~/src -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "s-nail-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
rm -f ~/installed/s-nail-*.tar.*