Requirements: to use IMAP over SSL you MUST have openssl installed. It can 
be obtained from www.openssl.org.




To install Althea (and we know you will want to do so after trying it)
just type these simple instructions:


Type:

make <enter>

Then:

make install <enter>



If you want to change where it installs, you can edit the
Makefile. (by default, the binary goes to /usr/local/bin, the docs go to
/usr/doc/althea and the images go to /usr/local/share/althea)

Look at the file althearc.example for an example of what the config files
format is for the files ~/.althearc and /etc/althearc.  These files are
currently only used to define the servers.  /etc/althearc is loaded by
all users and ~/.althearc is only loaded by the owner of that home directory 
(the user).  Only one of these files is required, but if both exist, /etc/althearc
will be loaded first and then ~/.althearc is loaded.  In other words, /etc/althearc
has system wide preferences, and ~/.althearc is the user's config file.   

Althea has been tested under Redhat 6 and 7. We are pretty sure it should work
on any linux distro with GTK. It might work on other systems, but
unfortunately we don't have any on which to test Althea. If you
successfully compile Althea on any Non-Linux box we'd love to know how you
did it, so we can modify our distribution. Please mail such comments to
althea-developers@lists.sourceforge.net