Re: [CSCMail-Users] Problems Getting CSC Mail to work

[Count Z. <cou...@cy...>]

Richard was overheard mumbling something about this on Sun, 17 Dec 2000
12:44:48 +0000

> Dear All
> 
> I've been trying to get CSC mail to work with SuSE 6.4 for a long time
> now.	Also tried SuSE 7.0 with the tar.gz source and the RPMs. 
> Doesn't work with either.
> 
> If I try to run setup with  './CSCMailInstaller.pl ' I find that it
> asks me to change to root.  This is the best that I have managed to do
> so far.  I use a dialup ISDN connection to the internet which is
> configured so that only a user can connect.  Root use of the internet
> is disabled.	Is there any way that I can get the installer script to
> run from the user space ?  The above happens if I chmod the
> CSCMailInstaller.pl file.  If I don't do that I get "access denied"

The installer script has to run as root so it can install the Perl modules
needed for CSCMail.

> I get the following answer from cscmail-nomoudules-1.6.1-1.i386.rpm
> when I try to start it with '/usr/bin/cscmail/ '
> 
> "Can't locate MIME/Parser.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/cacmail
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.01/i586-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.01 
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.01/i586-linux
> /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.6.01 .) at /usr/cscmail  line 24
> BEGIN failed-compilation aborted at /usr/bin/cscmail line 24.

This is because the MIME::Parser module is not installed.

> Can anyone help me to install and use CSC Mail from a non-root install
> ?

Sure, simply manually download and install the perl modules that CSCMail needs.
 There is a list of them in the INSTALL document.

> Thank you
> 
> -- 
> Richard

Your welcome,

-Steve