How to compile and install mboxgrep

mboxgrep should compile on a modern Unix-like operating system, such as GNU/Linux or FreeBSD.

It uses autoconf, so the most basic compilation procedure consists of:

./configure
make
make install # root rights probably needed here, prefix with sudo in such case

To see the list of flags accepted by the configure script, run:

./configure --help

Optionally, mboxgrep can be linked with the following libraries: