# sup
Sup is a console-based email client for people with a lot of email.
It presents an interface of a list of threads, which are each hierarchical collections email messages. Threads can have multiple tags applied to them. It supports a very fast full-text search, automatic contact-list management, custom code insertion via a Ruby 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.
# Installation
Install the sup rubygem and run the sup-config utility to build a configuration:
$ gem install sup $ sup-config
More documentation on getting started is available in the wiki.
# Features
- Handle massive amounts of email.
- Fast, local full-text index of messages.
- Mix email from different sources: mbox files and maildirs.
- 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!
# Sub-projects
sup
sup is the original curses email client, full-text index, and hook system.
Heliotrope
Heliotrope is an architectural shift from sup that maintains many of the same concepts, but separates out a server and client. Contrast to what is done in sup, where one large client installation has all the mail documents and indexes locally, Heliotrope provides a server-side service that indexes mail.
In this way, remote clients can connect up and interact with their mail stores in a sup-like way, while keeping the mobile install slim. This is a lifesaver when switching from machine to machine.
Turnsole
Turnsole is an example client that would connect to Heliotrope and interact with mail.
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Authors and Contributors
Sup is brought to you by a cast of hackers.