[gentoo-user] Enabling Mutt with SSL for IMAP

[gentoo-user] Enabling Mutt with SSL for IMAP

[Anthony Roy]

Hi all,

I am trying to set up mutt to access an IMAP account via SSL. Now I
set the 'ssl' USE flag  before emerging mutt, but entering > mutt -v I
get the outpu at the bottom of this post. 

Note in particular the -USE_SSL flag indicating that mutt has been
built without SSL support. Are there any other USE flags other than
'ssl' that need setting to enable SSL in mutt?

More generally, how do I find out the relationship between the portage
use flags and a packages compile options?

#---------------   mutt -v output   -------------------------------
Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.

System: Linux 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 (i686) [using ncurses 5.4]
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
-DEBUG
+HOMESPOOL  -USE_SETGID  +USE_DOTLOCK  +DL_STANDALONE
-USE_FCNTL  +USE_FLOCK   -USE_INODESORT
+USE_POP  +USE_IMAP  -USE_GSS  -USE_SSL  +USE_GNUTLS  -USE_SASL
-HAVE_REGCOMP  +USE_GNU_REGEX  +COMPRESSED
+HAVE_COLOR  +HAVE_START_COLOR  +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD  +HAVE_BKGDSET
+HAVE_CURS_SET  +HAVE_META  +HAVE_RESIZETERM
+CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP  -CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME
-CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME  -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS  -SUN_ATTACHMENT
+ENABLE_NLS  -LOCALES_HACK  +HAVE_WC_FUNCS  +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET
+HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR
+HAVE_ICONV  -ICONV_NONTRANS  -HAVE_LIBIDN  +HAVE_GETSID
+HAVE_GETADDRINFO  +USE_HCACHE
-ISPELL
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="Maildir"
PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/etc/mutt"
EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
MIXMASTER="mixmaster"
To contact the developers, please mail to <mutt-dev@mutt.org>.
To report a bug, please use the flea(1) utility.

patch-1.5.6.dw.pgp-timeout.1
patch-1.5.6.dw.mbox-hook.1
rr.compressed
patch-1.5.4.lpr.collapse_flagged Lukas P. Ruf <lukas.ruf@lpr.ch>
patch-1.5.10.tt.assumed_charset.1
#-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Thanks,

Anthony Roy. 


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[gentoo-user] Re: Enabling Mutt with SSL for IMAP

[Jim Ramsay]

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Anthony Roy wrote:
> More generally, how do I find out the relationship between the portage
> use flags and a packages compile options?

Short answer is: Read the ebuild.  Look for things like:

econf $(use_enable ssl)

if use ssl; then
  # Do many things
fi

use ssl & epatch "some_file.patch"

-- 
Jim Ramsay
"Me fail English?  That's unpossible!"

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