GNUMail.app User's Guide

by Martin Brecher <martin@mb-itconsulting.com>


Contents

Appendix

Getting GNUMail.app and Pantomime via CVS


Getting GNUMail.app and Pantomime via CVS [top of page]

The author of GNUMail.app has set up a public CVS server from which you can fetch the latest versions of GNUMail.app and Pantomime. It is recommend to first download a offical release of those two software packages (as described above) and then update the sources from CVS.

NOTE: As CVS is a system intended towards developers you may not want to use this unless you always like to live on the bloody edge. - CVS versions always contain a certain risk as they are not stable releases but are in-developement versions which can be very buggy. Maybe it will not work or even not compile at all. Use CVS versions at your own risk as you may loose mail or account data!
Also, if you want to recompile GNUMail.app from CVS you should update Pantomime first to ensure the two are at the same niveau.

First you have to login to the CVS server by executing the following command:

cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@Sophos.ca:/opt/cvsroot login

You will be prompted for a password. Enter anoncvs as password phrase. Usually you only need to do this step once as cvs remembers your login data.

Next you have to check out the sources of GNUMail and Pantomime (you only need that once and only if you do not have downloaded the releases first):

cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@Sophos.ca:/opt/cvsroot co GNUMail
cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@Sophos.ca:/opt/cvsroot co Pantomime

Then you can always update the sources using the following steps:

cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@Sophos.ca:/opt/cvsroot update GNUMail
cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@Sophos.ca:/opt/cvsroot update Pantomime