2 by William Morgan <wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net>
3 http://sup.rubyforge.org
7 Sup is a console-based email client for people with a lot of email.
8 It supports tagging, very fast full-text search, automatic contact-
9 list management, and more. If you're the type of person who treats
10 email as an extension of your long-term memory, Sup is for you.
13 - Handle massive amounts of email.
15 - Mix email from different sources: mbox files (even across different
16 machines), Maildir directories, IMAP folders, POP accounts, and
19 - Instantaneously search over your entire email collection. Search
20 over body text, or use a query language to combine search
21 predicates in any way.
23 - Handle multiple accounts. Replying to email sent to a particular
24 account will use the correct SMTP server, signature, and from
27 - Add custom code to handle certain types of messages or to handle
28 certain types of text within messages.
30 - Organize email with user-defined labels, automatically track
31 recent contacts, and much more!
33 The goal of Sup is to become the email client of choice for nerds
40 - Scalability to massive amounts of email. Immediate startup and
41 operability, regardless of how much amount of email you have.
43 - Immediate full-text search of your entire email archive, using the
44 Ferret query language. Search over message bodies, labels, from: and
45 to: fields, or any combination thereof.
47 - Thread-centrism. Operations are performed at the thread, not the
48 message level. Entire threads are manipulated and viewed (with
49 redundancies removed) at a time.
51 - Labels instead of folders. Drop that tired old metaphor and you'll
52 see how much easier it is to organize email.
54 - GMail-style thread management (but better!). Archive a thread, and
55 it will disappear from your inbox until someone replies. Kill a
56 thread, and it will never come back to your inbox (but will still
57 show up in searches.) Mark a thread as spam and you'll never again
58 see it unless explicitly searching for spam.
60 - Console based interface. No mouse clicking required!
62 - Programmability. It's in Ruby. The code is good. It's easy to
65 - Multiple buffer support. Why be limited to viewing one thread at a
68 - Tons of other little features, like automatic context-sensitive
69 help, multi-message operations, MIME attachment viewing, recent
70 contact list generation, etc.
72 Current limitations which will be fixed:
74 - Support for mbox, remote mbox, and IMAP only at this point. No
75 support for POP, mh, or GMail mailstores.
77 - No internationalization support. No wide characters, no subject
80 - Unix-centrism in MIME attachment handling and in sendmail
83 - Several obvious missing features, like undo, filters / saved
84 searches, message annotations, etc.
91 Note that Sup never changes the contents of any mailboxes; it only
92 indexes in to them. So it shouldn't ever corrupt your mail. The flip
93 side is that if you change a mailbox (e.g. delete messages, or, in
94 the case of mbox files, read an unread message) then Sup will be
95 unable to load messages from that source and will ask you to run
115 See FAQ.txt for some common problems and their solutions.
119 Copyright (c) 2006, 2007 William Morgan.
121 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
122 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
123 as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
124 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
126 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
127 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
128 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
129 GNU General Public License for more details.
131 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
132 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
133 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA