# CVS

The following applies for the entire the Courier mail server source code distribution, and sub-modules (the Courier IMAP server, sqwebmail, maildrop).

In order to build from the CVS repository, you must the following additional software installed:

1. `autoconf`.
2. `automake`.
3. `libtool`
4. `gettext`
5. `gmake`, of course.
6. sysconftool - this is an extra autoconf macro used by the Courier mail server's `configure.in`
7. The following tools that convert Docbook XML to HTML and man page documentation: various Docbook DTDS, the "docbook-utils" tools, the "sgml-common/xml-common" package, which are conveniently aggregated in Red Hat's docbook-tools directory; Docbook XSL stylesheets; XHTML 1.0 XSL stylesheets; HTML 4.01 stylesheets; the Gnome XSLT library, and the current version of the tidy tool. NOTE: Most systems already include packages for all of these tools. It's rather unfeasible to try to assemble this entire toolkit yourself, find these packages and install them.

These additional dependencies are only required if building from CVS, and not the packaged tarballs.

The source code can be checked out with the following commands:

        CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@courier.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/courier
        export CVSROOT
        cvs login

Press ENTER when asked for a password (blank password).

> `cvs -z3 checkout -r courier-latest courier` - get the entire the Courier mail server mail server source code, or:

> `cvs -z3 checkout -r courier-imap-latest courier-imap` - get just the standalone IMAP server source code, or:

> `cvs -z3 checkout -r sqwebmail-latest sqwebmail` - get just the standalone webmail server source code, or:

> `cvs -z3 checkout -r maildrop-latest maildrop` - get just the standalone version of the Courier mail server's mail filter's source code.

> `cvs -z3 checkout -r courier-authlib-latest courier-authlib` - get the the Courier mail server authentication library module.

NOTE: Automatically-generated `configure` and `Makefile`, `libtool`, and `sysconftool` scripts are NOT stored in the repository, and you must build them yourself. Fortunately, it's very easy to do this. Simply run the following command after checking out any one of these modules:

        sh autobloat

The `autobloat` script automatically runs `automake`, `autoconf`, `libtool`, `sysconftool`, from the current directory.

NOTE: The "courier" module is the entire mail server. The other modules extract selected portions, with a different top-level makefile that builds a standalone package. You only need to obtain the `courier` module, to get the source code for the Courier mail server. See Introduction for more information.

NOTE: the `HEAD`s of each module contain the latest development versions, which may not be very stable. Use the tags specified above to obtain the latest "semi" stable release. Usually the "latest" tags will match the source code in the most recent tarball, but they may include some additional patches for the next release.