What you probably want to do is execute the ./configure script with the --enable-pop flag, i.e.:
bash$ ./configure --enable-pop
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hans [mailto:hansfong@zonnet.nl]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 3:18 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Mutt and POP3
>
>
> How do I enable POP3 support in Mutt 1.2.5?
>
> I have the source, tried to modify the ./configure file, but
> I still get a
> -USE_POP when I run mutt -v.
>
> What I modified in the ./configure file was the following:
>
> #Defaults
> ac_help="ac_help --enable-pop"
>
> but this was a guess, because I didn't really know where to put the
> --enable-pop switch. Anybody? Thanks,
>
> Hans
>
>
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