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View the most recent changes for the newmail port at: newmail.darwinports.com/diff
Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for newmail.
The raw portfile for newmail 1.0.1 is located here:
http://newmail.darwinports.com/dports/mail/newmail/Portfile
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# $Id: Portfile 30236 2007-10-22 23:15:10Z jmpp macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0
Name: newmail
Version: 1.0.1
revision 2
Category: mail
Maintainers: nomaintainer
Description: Utility to check for new mail in multiple mailboxes
Homepage: http://www.ugh.net/~andrew/
Platform: darwin

Long Description: newmail looks at mailboxes and determines if any new mail has arrived. The mailboxes to be examined are specified as command line arguments. If a directory is specified, all mailboxes inside will be checked. By default, it runs every 15 minutes by the user's shell.

master_sites ftp://ftp.ugh.net.au/pub/unix/newmail/ ftp://ftp.megamirror.com/pub/ugh/unix/newmail/ http://ftp.megamirror.com/pub/ugh/unix/newmail/

checksums md5 539810d1f47dda9a6db8a683c1d46db9
patchfiles patch-newmail.c.diff

worksrcdir newmail
post-extract { reinplace "s|/usr/local|${destroot}${prefix}|g" ${workpath}/${worksrcdir}/Makefile }

use_configure no

destroot {
xinstall -m 755 ${worksrcpath}/newmail ${destroot}${prefix}/bin
xinstall -m 644 ${worksrcpath}/newmail.1 ${destroot}${prefix}/share/man/man1
}

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/newmail
%  sudo port install newmail  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching newmail
--->  Verifying checksum for newmail
--->  Extracting newmail
--->  Configuring newmail
--->  Building newmail with target all

--->  Staging newmail into destroot

--->  Installing newmail

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using newmail with these commands:

%  man newmail
%  apropos newmail
%  which newmail
%  locate newmail

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