The source comes as two compressed tarfiles: manitou-mdx-x.y.z.tar.gz
for the mail database exchanger (mdx) and manitou-x.y.z.tar.gz for the user interface, x.y.z being the version number.
These two programs can be built and installed separately on different computers if needed.
manitou-mdx and the associated script manitou-mgr come in a standard Perl source package that can be built and installed by these commands:
cd /path/to/manitou-mdx-x.y.z perl Makefile.PL make make install
To install in a non-system location /my/path, the invocation would be:
perl Makefile.PL DESTDIR=/my/path PREFIX=''
manitou is the program that provides the Mail User Agent functionality in a graphical user interface. It can be built for MS-Windows and Unix operating systems. To build manitou, invoke the following commands:
cd /path/to/manitou-x.y.z/ ./configure make make install
Use
./configure --help
for options.
To build the MS-Windows version, a toolchain based on MSYS and MingW must be used. A set of tutorials on how to install and use it to compile manitou are available online.