Pre-Installation Requirements

• Java Developer Kit (JDK) 1.6.x or greater for compiling/building
• The JAVA_HOME environment variable must be set to the directory where the JDK is installed, e.g., c:\Program Files\java\jdk.1.8.0_77.
• Maven 1.0.2 or greater (required when installing source)

Checking out the sources with Subversion

You need a Subversion client to access the Hedwig source repository. Once you have the Subversion client installed you can checkout the main Hedwig source tree with the following command or its equivalent in the client you are using:

svn co svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/hwmail/code/trunk hwmail

The above checkout will create a subdirectory named hwmail that contains the latest Hedwig sources.

Source Installation

This procedure explains how to install from the source distribution.

• Extract source from the ZIP file into a directory of your choice. For a source distribution, the file name will be similar to: hedwig-x.x-src.zip.
• Build Hedwig using Maven and Java 1.6. The method of building Hedwig is the following:

  mvn clean package
  

  If the above build fails on some tests, type the following:

  mvn clean package -Dmaven.test.skip=true
  

• If you prefer to use an IDE, then you can auto-generate the IDE's project file using maven plugins:

  mvn eclipse:eclipse
  

• Proceed to the Binary_Installation with binary distribution file in assembly/target directory.

Binary Installation

• Extract the binary distribution file into a directory of your own. For a windows binary distribution, the filename will be similar to: hedwig-x.x.zip. For a unix binary distribution, the filename will be similar to: hedwig-x.x.tar.gz.
• Proceed to the Configuration chapter of this document.
• Proceed to the Running the server chapter of this document.