“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:
The goal of Sup is to become the email client of choice for nerds everywhere.
Please read the README, the FAQ, the new user guide and the philosophical statement.
Please also read and contribute to the Sup wiki.
The current version of Sup is 0.3, released 2007-11-27. This is a beta release. It supports mbox, mbox over ssh, IMAP, IMAPS, and Maildir accounts.
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.
Please post bug reports, feature requests, and any comments or discussion topics to the sup-talk mailing list (archives).
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.