- Scalability to massive amounts of email. Immediate startup and
operability, regardless of how much amount of email you have.
- (At least, once everything's been indexed.)
-- Immediate full-text search of your entire email archive, using
- the full Ferret query langauge. Search over message bodies, labels,
- from: and to: fields, or any combination thereof.
+- Immediate full-text search of your entire email archive, using the
+ Ferret query langauge. Search over message bodies, labels, from: and
+ to: fields, or any combination thereof.
- Thread-centrism. Operations are performed at the thread, not the
message level. Entire threads are manipulated and viewed (with
- Labels instead of folders. Drop that tired old metaphor and you'll
see how much easier it is to organize email.
-- GMail-style thread management. Archive a thread, and it will
- disappear from your inbox until someone replies. Kill a thread, and
- it will never come back to your inbox. (But it will still show up in
- searches, of course.)
+- GMail-style thread management (but better!). Archive a thread, and
+ it will disappear from your inbox until someone replies. Kill a
+ thread, and it will never come back to your inbox (but will still
+ show up in searches.) Mark a thread as spam and you'll never again
+ see it unless explicitly searching for spam.
- Console based interface. No mouse clicking required!
Current limitations which will be fixed:
-- Support for mbox and IMAP only at this point. No support for POP, mh,
- or GMail mailstores.
+- Support for mbox, remote mbox, and IMAP only at this point. No
+ support for POP, mh, or GMail mailstores.
- No internationalization support. No wide characters, no subject
demangling.
2. sup
3. edit ~/.sup/config.yaml for the (very few) settings sup has
- Where <source> is a filename (for mbox files), or an imap or imaps
- url. In the case of imap, don't put the username and password in
- the URI (which is a terrible, terrible idea). You will be prompted
- for them.
+ Where <source> is a filename (for mbox files), an imap or imaps URI,
+ or a mbox+ssh URI (for remote mbox files). You will be prompted for
+ a username and password if required.
sup-import has several options which control whether you want
- messages from particular mailboxes not to be added to the inbox,
- or not to be marked as new, so run it with -h for help.
+ messages from particular mailboxes not to be added to the inbox, or
+ not to be marked as new, so run it with -h for help.
Note that Sup never changes the contents of any mailboxes; it only
indexes in to them. So it shouldn't ever corrupt your mail. The flip
side is that if you change a mailbox (e.g. delete messages, or, in
- the case of mbox files, read an unread message) then Sup may crash,
- and will tell you to run sup-import --rebuild to recalculate the
- offsets within the mailbox.
+ the case of mbox files, read an unread message) then Sup will be
+ unable to load messages from that source and will ask you to run
+ sup-import --rebuild.
== REQUIREMENTS:
* ferret >= 0.10.13
-* ncurses >= 0.9.1
-* rmail >= 0.17
+* ncurses
+* rmail
+* highline
== INSTALL:
* gem install sup -y
-* Then, in rmail, change line 159 of multipart.rb to:
+
+== KNOWN BUGS IN OTHER PACKAGES:
+* If you get an error about frozen strings in RubyMail when importing
+ certain messages with attachments, in rmail, change line 159 of
+ multipart.rb to:
chunk = chunk[0..start]
- (Sorry; it's an unsupported package.) You might be able to get away
- without doing this but if you get frozen string exceptions when
- reading in multipart messages, this is what you need to change.
+* Occasionally Ferret produces something the Ruby GC doesn't like
+ (particularly when importing messages from very large sources).
+ No worries, just re-run sup-import. (This is unresolved atm.)
+* There are a couple other Ferret issues with outstanding patches but
+ they are pretty rare.
+
== LICENSE:
-Copyright (c) 2006 William Morgan.
+Copyright (c) 2006, 2007 William Morgan.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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