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Q: What is Sup?
-A: 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.
+A: A console-based email client for people with a lot of email.
Q: What does Sup stand for?
A: "What's up?"
Q: Sup looks like a text-based Gmail.
-A: I stole their ideas. And improved them!
+A: First I stole their ideas. Then I improved them.
Q: Why not just use Gmail?
-A: I wrote Sup because I hate ads, I hate using a mouse, and I hate
- non-programmability and non-extensibility.
+A: I hate ads, I hate using a mouse, and I hate non-programmability and
+ non-extensibility.
Also, Gmail doesn't let you use a monospace font, which is just
lame.
Q: How does Sup deal with spam?
A: You can manually mark messages as spam, which prevents them from
- showing up in future searches, but that's as far as Sup goes. Spam
- filtering should be done by a dedicated tool like SpamAssassin.
+ showing up in future searches. Later, you can run a batch process to
+ remove such messages from your sources. That's as far as Sup goes.
+ Spam filtering should be done by a dedicated tool like SpamAssassin.
Q: How do I delete a message?
A: Why delete? Unless it's spam, you might as well just archive it.
Q: What are all these "Redwood" references I see in the code?
A: That was Sup's original name. (Think pine, elm. Although I was a
- Mutt user, I couldn't think of a good progression there.) But it
- was taken by another project on RubyForge, and wasn't that
- original, and was too long to type anyways.
-
- Maybe one day I'll do a huge search-and-replace on the code, but it
- doesn't seem that important at this point.
+ Mutt user, I couldn't think of a good progression there.) But it was
+ taken by another project on RubyForge, and wasn't that original, and
+ was too long to type anyways.
Common Problems
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-P: I see this message from Ferret:
- Error occured in index.c:825 - sis_find_segments_file
-S: Yikes! You've upgraded Ferret and the index format changed beneath
- you. Follow the index rebuild instructions above.
-
P: I get some error message from Rubymail about frozen strings when
importing messages with attachments.
S: The current solution is to directly modify RubyMail. Change line 159 of