Balsa E-Mail Client 2.0.x Copyright (C) 1997-2002 Stuart Parmenter and others, see AUTHORS file. See 'COPYING' for license information. Please note linking against OpenSSL libraries is explicitely allowed. See 'AUTHORS' for a list of contributors. Please make sure you have the following things: Glib >= 2.0.0 GTK >= 2.0.0 gnome-libs >= 2.0.0 (see notes below) gnome-print >= 0.25 libpspell >= 0.11.2 (and at least one spell check module) alternatively libapsell >= 0.50 libesmtp >= 0.8.11 http://www.stafford.uklinux.net/libesmtp/ If you do not have these, please check: http://balsa.gnome.org/download.html for links to these packages. Or try http://www.gnome.org, http://www.gtk.org, and http://www.enlightenment.org. Note that some of these modules have their own requirements. Installation of pspell is known to be troublesome, make sure you have read - and understood - all the details. Feedback should to to pspell team, not balsa team. It is highly recommended to install and use the Perl Compatible Regular Expression library (PCRE), version 3.0 or higher. Further information about this library is available from http://www.pcre.org/ Some pre-built PCRE rpm's can be found at http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=pcre You need also gnome-doc-tools for building the help system. They are available from http://people.redhat.com/dcm/software.html Since version 2.0.10 balsa has EXPERIMENTAL support for gpg signed and encrypted MIME messages according to RFC 3156. Further information is available at http://home.arcor.de/dralbrecht.dress/balsa/balsa2-gpg.html Build Instructions: For more information and configuration options see 'README'. You need libtool, pspell-devel (obligatory) and gnome-print-devel (recommended) packages installed. Balsa works also very nicely with gtkhtml >= 0.8 and openldap. # ./configure # make Installation: Do the above then # make install Notes: Balsa does not play nice with older versions of egcs, if you are using an earlier version than 2.95 of this compiler and have troubles with segfaults, try compiling with optimizations turned off or upgrading. Some versions of libgnome is known to have bugs that lead to balsa crash on startup. Read http://mail.gnome.org/archives/balsa-list/2000-October/msg00101.html and make sure you have at least /usr/lib/libgnome.so.32.3.11. Experimental gcc 2.96 distributed with RedHat 7.0 generates spurious warning messages. You have to update your compiler (strongly recommended!) or configure balsa with explicitely specified --disable-more-warnings option.