[Xeo]

I'm trying to set up a method of receiving e-mails and automatically saving the attachments as files. To do this, I am going to use a fetchmail, procmail, and metamail combination.

Fetchmail and procmail are already in OS X but metamail is not. I am having difficulty compiling metamail. Usually, if it doesn't compile on the first try, or I don't have step by step instructions to follow, I am lost.

Please help me get this installed. I don't know how to make it configure properly.

I downloaded the metamail source near the bottom of this website. Finding the source was a chore in itself. Here is a direct link.

If there is an alternative method of doing what I want (I really want it to work via the command line), please let me know that as well.

Thanks.

[Ludovic Hirlimann]

Originally posted by Xeo:
Fetchmail and procmail are already in OS X but metamail is not. I am having difficulty compiling metamail. Usually, if it doesn't compile on the first try, or I don't have step by step instructions to follow, I am lost.

Please help me get this installed. I don't know how to make it configure properly.

If there is an alternative method of doing what I want (I really want it to work via the command line), please let me know that as well.

Thanks.

Firstly you should take the official sources which are available here . Take the unix sources. now there should be instructions in the tarball on how to compile it. If it does not compile/configure out of the tarball you will need to make some changes in the source code.

If you have further difficulty I suggest you post your compiling problems in teh dev forums which is much more appropriate.

[Xeo]

Originally posted by Ludovic Hirlimann:
Firstly you should take the official sources which are available here . Take the unix sources. now there should be instructions in the tarball on how to compile it. If it does not compile/configure out of the tarball you will need to make some changes in the source code.

If you have further difficulty I suggest you post your compiling problems in teh dev forums which is much more appropriate.

Thanks for the link but I get the same errors when I try to compile. I will take your advice and post my problem in the developer forum, if only to have a few more ears listen to my problem.

For reference, this is the output of typing "make".

Code:
(cd metamail ; make  CONFIGDIR=../.  CFLAGS="-g -I.   " CC="cc"  LDLIBS="")
rm -f metamail.o
cc -c  -I../. -g -I.    metamail.c
metamail.c: In function `main':
metamail.c:306: warning: passing arg 2 of `signal' from incompatible pointer type
metamail.c:308: warning: passing arg 2 of `signal' from incompatible pointer type
metamail.c:309: warning: passing arg 2 of `signal' from incompatible pointer type
metamail.c:310: warning: passing arg 2 of `signal' from incompatible pointer type
metamail.c:311: warning: passing arg 2 of `signal' from incompatible pointer type
metamail.c:313: warning: passing arg 2 of `signal' from incompatible pointer type
metamail.c:314: warning: passing arg 2 of `signal' from incompatible pointer type
metamail.c:316: warning: passing arg 2 of `signal' from incompatible pointer type
metamail.c:317: warning: passing arg 2 of `signal' from incompatible pointer type
metamail.c:321: warning: passing arg 2 of `signal' from incompatible pointer type
rm -f codes.o
cc -c  -I../. -g -I.    codes.c
rm -f uue.o
cc -c  -I../. -g -I.    uue.c
rm -f shared.o
cc -c  -I../. -g -I.    shared.c
rm -f putenv.o
cc -c  -I../. -g -I.    putenv.c
rm -f metamail
cc -I../. -g -I.    -o metamail  metamail.o  putenv.o codes.o uue.o shared.o 
ld: Undefined symbols:
_gtty
_stty
make[1]: *** [metamail] Error 1
make: *** [basics] Error 2