X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.txt;h=4204270a3091ef9510be29bf6886e04f7981a900;hb=da1abd360e25011bdbe23b9194f926f29b8aef44;hp=419e16b51b7d9c1d5fb777b99038a564690757ac;hpb=43df7bd75d887a04b9d1433a534b7fa77188663d;p=sup diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt index 419e16b..4204270 100644 --- a/README.txt +++ b/README.txt @@ -4,13 +4,29 @@ sup == DESCRIPTION: -Sup is an attempt to take the UI innovations of web-based email -readers (ok, really just GMail) and to combine them with the -traditional wholesome goodness of a console-based email client. +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, 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 is designed to work with massive amounts of email, potentially -spread out across different mbox files, IMAP folders, and GMail -accounts, and to pull them all together into a single interface. +Sup makes it easy to: +- Handle massive amounts of email. + +- Mix email from different sources: mbox files (even across different + machines), Maildir directories, IMAP folders, 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 customize Sup to whatever particular and bizarre + needs you may have. + +- 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. @@ -21,86 +37,87 @@ Features: - 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 language. 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 redundancies removed) at a time. -- Labels over folders. Drop that tired old metaphor and you'll see how - much easier it is to organize email. +- 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. 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, so instantaneous response to interaction. No mouse - clicking required! +- Console based interface. No mouse clicking required! -- Programmability. It's in Ruby. The code is good. It's easy to - extend. +- Programmability. It's in Ruby. The code is good. It has an extensive + hook system that makes it easy to extend and customize. -- Multiple buffer support. Why be limited to viewing one thread at a +- Multiple buffer support. Why be limited to viewing one thing at a time? -- Automatic context-sensitive help. - -- Message tagging and multi-message tagged operations. - -- Mutt-style MIME attachment viewing. +- Tons of other little features, like automatic context-sensitive help, + multi-message operations, MIME attachment viewing, recent contact list + generation, etc. Current limitations which will be fixed: -- Support for mbox ONLY at this point. No support for POP, IMAP, and - GMail accounts. +- Sup doesn't play nicely with other mail clients. If you alter a mail + source (read, move, delete, etc) with another client Sup will punish + you with a lengthy reindexing process. -- No internationalization support. No wide characters, no subject - demangling. +- Support for mbox, Maildir, and IMAP only at this point. No support for + POP or mh. -- No GMail-style filters. +- IMAP support is very slow due mostly to Ruby's IMAP library. You may + consider something like offlineimap to mirror your IMAP folders with + local Maildir ones. -- Unix-centrism in MIME attachment handling. +- Unix-centrism in MIME attachment handling and in sendmail invocation. == SYNOPSYS: - 1. sup-import + - 2. sup - 3. edit ~/.sup/config.yaml for the (very few) settings sup has - - 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. + 0. sup-config + 1. sup - Note that Sup *never* changes the contents of any mailboxes. So it - shouldn't ever corrupt your mail. The flip side is that if you - change a mailbox (e.g. delete or read messages) then Sup may crash, - and will tell you to run sup-import --rebuild to recalculate the - offsets within the mailbox have changed. + 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 will be unable to + load messages from that source and will ask you to run sup-sync + --changed. == REQUIREMENTS: -* ferret >= 0.10.13 -* ncurses >= 0.9.1 -* rmail >= 0.17 + - ferret >= 0.11.6 + - ncurses >= 0.9.1 + - rmail >= 0.17 + - highline + - net-ssh + - trollop >= 1.12 + - lockfile + - mime-types + - gettext + - fastthread == INSTALL: -* gem install sup -y -* Then, 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 email messages, this is what you need to - change. +* gem install sup + +== PROBLEMS: + +See FAQ.txt for some common problems and their solutions. == LICENSE: -Copyright (c) 2006 William Morgan. +Copyright (c) 2006--2009 William Morgan. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License