Sup

Sup is a console-based email client that combines the best features of GMail, mutt, and emacs. Sup matches the power of GMail with the speed and simplicity of a console interface.

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

Status

The current version of Sup is 0.0.4, released January 3rd, 2007. This is a beta release. It is unix-centric and has no i18n support. It supports only mbox, mbox+ssh, and IMAP, not POP or GMail. I plan to fix all of these problems.

Other than those limitations, 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

You can email me at wmorgan dash sup at masanjin dot nets, but I would prefer that you post something to the sup forums.

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.