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Re: Sup: The Hacker's Mail User Agent

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Post by k2enemy »

secure wrote: post #7

Apparently, somebody else is continuing sup development. It used to be that William Morgan was the BDFL, and he started working on heliotrope/turnsole (a successor), which, AFAICT, never got anywhere serious. I long since switched from sup to notmuch, which makes me much happier in terms of performance, documentation and stability.

Do you mind detailing your notmuch setup a little? In particular, what frontend? I used notmuch with mutt and the search was so slow that I went back to Mail.app on the mac (and now back to sup).

Re: Sup: The Hacker's Mail User Agent

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Post by secure »

richardlblair wrote: post #12
secure wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It mimics the gmail look & feel, i.e. one line of text represents one thread in your inbox, and when you open it, you get all the messages of the thread (with read messages collapsed), instead of precisely one message. Edit: also fast (!) full-text search thanks to Xapian, tags instead of folders

Unfortunately this won't install on my mac. After playing with it for a while I'm giving up... because I simply don't have the time. Too bad, I was really excited about this.

AFAIR, William Morgan also used Mac OS X, so I am surprised it doesn’t work for you.

Re: Sup: The Hacker's Mail User Agent

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Post by secure »

k2enemy wrote: post #21
secure wrote: post #7

Apparently, somebody else is continuing sup development. It used to be that William Morgan was the BDFL, and he started working on heliotrope/turnsole (a successor), which, AFAICT, never got anywhere serious. I long since switched from sup to notmuch, which makes me much happier in terms of performance, documentation and stability.

Do you mind detailing your notmuch setup a little? In particular, what frontend? I used notmuch with mutt and the search was so slow that I went back to Mail.app on the mac (and now back to sup).

I use the canonical notmuch-emacs frontend, because all the others are not as good as the emacs one (I was not an emacs user before that).

Search is as fast as it was with sup for me, which is not a surprise, given that both use Xapian :).

Re: Sup: The Hacker's Mail User Agent

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Post by nicetry »

clesenne wrote: post #6
richardlblair wrote: post #2

Awesome. I've been looking for something like this. I know of mut and pine, but I've been looking for something new and shiny.

How does this go beyond what you can do with mutt? Plus mutt handles IMAP out of the box.

mutt cant display the first few words of an email in index view like sup does. i love gmail therefor.

Re: Sup: The Hacker's Mail User Agent

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Post by tome »

rdl wrote: post #14

I've been a mutt user since around 1997, and elm and mail before that. I now do something crazy with maildir sync via mbsync and then mutt. Works pretty well. This lets me use push mail from an EAS (Kerio or Z-push) server on the iPhone to get push email, as well as getting mail on a few computers, all with full local archives. I just use the mail server for webmail in the cases I need to use it, but kerio's webmail…

Could you say a little bit about what you do with folder hooks?

I've been using mutt for ages (not quite as long as you!) but I don't do anything clever with folder hooks, so it would be interesting to see what you do.

Re: Sup: The Hacker's Mail User Agent

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Post by ChrisFrost »

jedbrown wrote: post #11
secure wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FWIW, I never considered that a serious limitation. On my phone, I don’t want to read email. It’s a sub-par experience, especially if you’re used to Sup/Gmail/Notmuch. You can’t just go back to “regular” email clients anymore :). As for using multiple computers: with sup I used to run it in screen and attach that screen session whenever I needed it. With notmuch, I can just tell it to run notmuch(1) on a remote machi…

I do some email using my phone when on the go, and although I'd like a better sync experience, it's not a showstopper. OfflineIMAP (buggy as hell, but works) can sync unread and flagged/starred status, which is the most important part. In a normal day where I mostly use notmuch, I just batch-archive the day's messages. I don't like the latency of using a remote notmuch, especially when going through a string of 5MB l…

If you haven't already considered mbsync as an alternative to OfflineIMAP, I suggest taking a look. I also found OfflineIMAP buggy (many years ago) and mbsync has been syncing my mailboxes reliably since. http://isync.sourceforge.net/ I say this as the author of a program that runs mailbox syncers like mbsync when there are changes to sync (mswatch: http://mswatch.sourceforge.net/).

Re: Sup: The Hacker's Mail User Agent

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Post by gyepi »

tome wrote: post #26
rdl wrote: post #14

I've been a mutt user since around 1997, and elm and mail before that. I now do something crazy with maildir sync via mbsync and then mutt. Works pretty well. This lets me use push mail from an EAS (Kerio or Z-push) server on the iPhone to get push email, as well as getting mail on a few computers, all with full local archives. I just use the mail server for webmail in the cases I need to use it, but kerio's webmail…

Could you say a little bit about what you do with folder hooks? I've been using mutt for ages (not quite as long as you!) but I don't do anything clever with folder hooks, so it would be interesting to see what you do.

I, too, have been using mutt for a while now. I get emails at lots of different addresses and filter them into various folders. I use folder hooks to set my email address, depending the current folder.

Re: Sup: The Hacker's Mail User Agent

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Post by tome »

gyepi wrote: post #28
tome wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you say a little bit about what you do with folder hooks? I've been using mutt for ages (not quite as long as you!) but I don't do anything clever with folder hooks, so it would be interesting to see what you do.

I, too, have been using mutt for a while now. I get emails at lots of different addresses and filter them into various folders. I use folder hooks to set my email address, depending the current folder.

Ah right. I typically use send hooks for that, based on the To: address but folder hooks would help me out too. I'll have to look into that.

Re: Sup: The Hacker's Mail User Agent

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Post by ezyang »

k2enemy wrote: post #5
wulczer wrote: post #4

I've been thinking about switching to sup a few times, but the inability to sync changes back to the IMAP server is a deal breaker to me. If I mark an email as read in sup, I don't want it to show up as unread on my phone. If I delete an email on the phone, I don't want it to stay in sup. I know there's been a branch of sup that synced IMAP flags from the local repo to the server, solving at least the read status pro…

There's a dev branch for maildir sync, but I haven't tried it out: https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup/tree/maildir-sync I agree that this limitation makes it really hard to fit sup into a workflow that includes multiple workstations and phones/tablets. Hopefully they get that sorted.

I've been running maildir-label-syncing Sup for a while. It works great, but you need the master Sup client to be running for new email to get sorted. http://blog.ezyang.com/2012/12/maildir-synchronizing-sup/
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