diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index d4286b0d..e34b7458 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
                 <exclude name="jsmoothgen-ant.jar"/>
             </fileset>
         </copy>
+        <copy file="davmail.sh" todir="dist"/>
         <taskdef name="jsmoothgen"
                  classname="net.charabia.jsmoothgen.ant.JSmoothGen"
                  classpathref="classpath"/>
@@ -56,6 +57,7 @@
                 <include name="lib/*.jar"/>
                 <include name="*.jar"/>
                 <include name="davmail*.exe"/>
+                <include name="davmail.sh"/>
             </fileset>
         </zip>
         <nsis script="davmail-setup.nsi" verbosity="4" out="build.log" noconfig="yes">
diff --git a/davmail.sh b/davmail.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..46c7424d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/davmail.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# Ubuntu setup instructions :
+# install java :
+# sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin
+# launch davmail :
+java -cp davmail.jar:lib/* davmail.DavGateway