Delphi

First of all, you need Borland Delphi version 5, 6, or 7. The Desktop or Personal edition is good enough. The Personal version is a free Delphi version that has been shipped with some magazines.

Components

You will need some third party component packages.

• RX library version 2.75
  Delphi VCL Extensions (RX) Library contains a number of components (over 60), objects and routines for Borland Delphi with full source code totally free. Go to http://www.rxlib.com/ or the German mirror www.fet.uni-hannover.de/~od/rxlib/ (you need rxlib275.zip and rx275fix.zip). For the Delphi 6 version go to http://rxlib.sourceforge.net/.
  The original authors developed it until Delphi 5 came out. Some developers have made the conversion for Delphi 6, you can download this version from the rxlib project on SourceForge.
  After Delphi 6 in Juni 2002, the rxlib project merged into the Jedi project. This caused a lot of changes to the rxlib project source (renaming of components) so we don't use this Jedi version, but the rxlib Delphi 6 version converted to Delphi 7. If you search the internet for RXLib Delphi7 you will find it. You can try it here.
• TdfsExtListView & TdfsEnhListView v3.72
  This is a freeware component written by Brad Stowers.
  When you want to download this component, there is the problem that the original website www.delphifreestuff.com doesn't work for some months already. And the 3.72 version was missing the support for Delphi 7. So you may download this component package from here, with Delphi 7 support. This zip contains the changed source for Delphi 7 support and the original unchanged extlistv.zip file that is required by the license.
• Open-XML Utility Library
  This is a freeware (MPL) library written by Dieter Köhler that includes Unicode and Codepage translation functions. You may download the library from http://www.philo.de/xml/downloads.shtml. This library is needed for the Phoenix Mail Alpha 10 version or higher.

• You may download the source directly from the SourceForge CVS servers.
  For instructions, read one of the following documents:
  
  • Setting up WinCVS for users and contributors
  • Setting up WinCVS for read/write access
• You may download the source as a zip from the files section.

Setting up the development environment

1. Install the RX library.
   If you have Delphi Desktop, Standard or Professional Edition, open RX.INC and deactivate the DCS (DelphiClientServer) define.
   For Delphi 7, open and compile the package rxctl7.dpk and open and install the package dclrx7.dpk. For Delphi 5 or 6 use the packages with the corresponding number. Add the path for these packages to the Library Path in the Environment Settings.
2. Install the ExtListView component.
   For Delphi 6 or 7, open the package dfs.dpk and install it. For Delphi 5, use the package dfs_d5.dpk. Add the path for this component to the Library Path in the Environment Settings.
3. Open-XML Utility Library.
   You may install this library, or just unpack it to a directory and add that directory to the Library Path in the Environment Settings.
4. Install the Phoenix Mail component package.
   This package resides in the comps subdirectory of the downloaded Phoenix Mail source. For Delphi 6 or 7 open and install the Phoenix6and7.dpk package, for Delphi 5 use the Phoenix5.dpk package.
5. Open the phoenix project and compile.
   Before compiling you could check the output directory in the project settings.