Sup

“Finally a mail client that does what we want, how we want it.”

“Every other client we've tried is intolerable.”

“It's just what I wanted, but I hadn't realized what I wanted until I saw it.”

“Sup is almost to the point where I could jump ship from mutt.”

“I was previously intrigued by a gmail-styled mutt-killer written in Ruby, but having actually spent a few hours reading the docs, and trying out all the keys, and reading the docs again, and trying the keys out again, and then actually engaging in a bunch of practice usage runs, I now officially can't fucking wait for the future of this thing; it has my full attention.”

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, custom code insertion via a hook system, 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, IMAP folders, and Maildirs, across multiple machines.
• 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 new user guide and the philosophical statement.

Please also read and contribute to the Sup wiki.

Status

The current version of Sup is 0.8.1, released 2009-06-15. This is a beta release. It supports mbox, IMAP, IMAPS, and Maildir mailstores.

To be notified by email of Sup releases, subscribe to the sup-announce mailing list. One email per release.

Sup news can often be see on William's blog.

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, you can clone the git repository like so: git clone git://gitorious.org/sup/mainline.git. You can also browse the Sup Gitorious 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 and the following honorable contributors:

• Nicolas Pouillard
• Mike Stipicevic
• Marcus Williams
• Lionel Ott
• Ingmar Vanhassel
• Mark Alexander
• Christopher Warrington
• Richard Brown
• Ben Walton
• Marc Hartstein
• Grant Hollingworth
• Steve Goldman
• Decklin Foster
• Ismo Puustinen
• Jeff Balogh
• Alex Vandiver
• Giorgio Lando
• Israel Herraiz
• Ian Taylor
• Stefan Lundström
• Rich Lane
• Kirill Smelkov

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