Sup

Sup is a console-based email client for people with a lot of email. It supports tagging, very fast full-text search, automatic contact-list management, and more. If you're the type of person who treats email as an extension of your long-term memory, Sup is for you.

Sup makes it easy to:

• Handle massive amounts of email.
• Mix email from different sources: mbox files (even across different machines), IMAP folders, POP accounts, and Gmail accounts.
• Instantaneously search over your entire email collection. Search over body text, or use a query language to combine search predicates in any way.
• Handle multiple accounts. Replying to email sent to a particular account will use the correct SMTP server, signature, and from address.
• Add custom code to handle certain types of messages or to handle certain types of text within messages.
• Organize email with user-defined labels, automatically track recent contacts, and much more!

The goal of Sup is to become the email client of choice for nerds everywhere.

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Documentation

Please read the README, the FAQ, the user guide and the philosophical statement.

Status

The current version of Sup is 0.1, released 2007-07-17. This is a beta release. It supportsm box, mbox over ssh, IMAP, IMAPS, and Maildir. It does not support POP or Gmail accounts yet.

There are a few known bugs, but overall it works great! I use it for my everyday email, and it makes dealing with 85,000 messages a breeze.

Getting it

You can download Sup releases from the Sup RubyForge page. If you have RubyGems installed, simply command your computer to "gem install sup".

If you're interested in development, please read the Sup anonymous SVN access instructions. You can also browse the SVN repository.

Bug reports

Please post bug reports, feature requests, and any comments or discussion topics to the sup-talk mailing list (archives).

Credit

Sup is brought to you by William Morgan.

Sup is made possible by the hard work of Dave Balmain and his fantastic IR engine Ferret, and by Matt Armstrong's tragically abandoned RubyMail package.