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authorpazz <patricktotzke@gmail.com>2011-08-13 15:06:01 +0100
committerpazz <patricktotzke@gmail.com>2011-08-13 15:06:01 +0100
commita78d499ef24f16be127cb727e4d91f7221bd5c81 (patch)
treeb745d718340f978550c6a15bfbcc9c6f522938e6 /INSTALL
parent8cc5b5b13179619afa35cdbc0949b761aada32a2 (diff)
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 67cec252..b9c2fc02 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -3,13 +3,17 @@ INSTALL
Alot depends on development versions of notmuch and urwid.
+
1. make sure you have urwid from git:
+-------------------------------------
> git clone http://github.com/wardi/urwid
> cd urwid
> sudo python setup.py install
+
2. install notmuch and python bindings from git:
+------------------------------------------------
> git clone git://notmuchmail.org/git/notmuch
> cd notmuch
@@ -19,14 +23,18 @@ Alot depends on development versions of notmuch and urwid.
> cd bindings/python
> sudo python setup.py install
+
3. make sure you have argparse installed:
+-----------------------------------------
+
If you are running debian and are still on python 2.6,
easy_install argparse
4. get alot and install it from git:
+------------------------------------
-> git clone git://github.com/pazz/notmuch-gui alot
+> git clone git://github.com/pazz/alot alot
> cd alot
> sudo python setup.py install
@@ -35,8 +43,7 @@ Thats it, now "alot" should be in your path.
Alot tries to be as unobtrusive as possible, with one exception:
It forces you to use UTF-8 encoding whereever it can:
All text parts and headers of outgoing emails are converted to utf-8,
-notmuch tagstrings and config files are interpreted as utf-8.
-I believe this makes the world a better place.
+notmuch tagstrings, edited emails and config files are interpreted as utf-8.
All configs are optional, but if you want to send mails you need to
specify at least one account section:
@@ -44,7 +51,6 @@ specify at least one account section:
[account uoe]
realname = Your Name
address = your@address
- sender_type = sendmail
sendmail_command = msmtp
sent_mailbox = maildir:///home/you/mail/Sent