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View the most recent changes for the balsa port at: balsa.darwinports.com/diff
Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for balsa.
The raw portfile for balsa 2.0.17 is located here:
http://balsa.darwinports.com/dports/gnome/balsa/Portfile
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# $Id: Portfile 30228 2007-10-22 22:59:36Z jmpp macports.org $
PortSystem 1.0
Name: balsa
Version: 2.0.17
Description: Gnome email client
Long Description: Balsa is an e-mail client for GNOME, highly configurable and incorporating all the features you would expect in a robust mail client.
Maintainers: nomaintainer
Category: gnome mail
Platform: darwin
Homepage: http://balsa.gnome.org/
use_bzip2 yes
master_sites http://balsa.gnome.org/
checksums md5 851db68728ed9adea615eb2f249fa1ee
depends_lib lib:libgtkhtml-2:libgtkhtml lib:libiconv:libiconv lib:libaspell:aspell
patchfiles patch_charset.h patch_charset.c patch_misc.c
configure.args --without-esmtp --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --with-iconv=${prefix}
configure.cppflags-append "-L${prefix}/lib"
configure.cflags-append "-no-cpp-precomp -flat_namespace -undefined suppress"

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/balsa
%  sudo port install balsa  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching balsa
--->  Verifying checksum for balsa
--->  Extracting balsa
--->  Configuring balsa
--->  Building balsa with target all

--->  Staging balsa into destroot

--->  Installing balsa

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using balsa with these commands:

%  man balsa
%  apropos balsa
%  which balsa
%  locate balsa

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