Excerpts from Ryan Freeman's message of Tue Jun 15 16:32:41 -0700 2010: > Excerpts from Jiri B.'s message of Sun Jun 06 04:03:50 -0700 2010: > > Hello, > > > > this is very silly attempt to make a port of sup mail 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. > > > > Well, there are some issues, problems with locales... Reading mail from > > mbox works but I haven't tested other features yet. Also the Makefile is > > probably stupid :) I was not sure if keep 'sup' name because under > > name sup there's another application existing, but we don't have it in > > ports... - Software Upgrade Protocol implementation. > > > > Hey, > > I tried this out on my laptop running i386-current as of June 11th. > So far this is a really nifty little MUA, worth taking the time to > learn the new ideals from traditional email management. > > I do notice slight locale issues, certain characters draw oddly, but > nothing else so far. i'll be eager to stay on this one and check all > updates! Thanks, > > -Ryan
hello ports@, Has anyone else had a chance to try this client out? I am still using it daily and quite enjoying the mass mail management powers it seems to have even over mutt which i also love. FWIW, despite a breakage that occurred after several snapshot upgrades and pkg_add -u runs as i track -current, i realized my error that I had simply not updated the sup port (nor its xapian ports that were also posted here to support this package). a rebuild of them and reinstall had me up and running again. The only thing i've noticed while being very powerful for many many mails, (really running it heavy i now have an over 5000 mail index spanning years to put it to work with) mass tag change operations (300+) can take a couple minutes to complete leaving cpu load quite high. I actually installed the sup-mail package on a debian system to compare this, and its actually similar so I'm thinking its just a limitation of ruby/xapian or something doing so much work, but don't quote me on it. Another thing I wanted to test having sup on a different platform is the sup-dump tool and how to restore indexes. It is very necessary for these tools as a tarball of your .sup folder will -not- work (unless perhaps on the exact machine with the exact versions of xapian etc installed), but it is very easy to do the following which restored the 2500+ messages i had tagged and sorted: on original: $ sup-dump > <file> destination machine: $ sup-sync --restored --restore <file> (note restore is done after sup-config and initial import of messages, it then overlays the changes from your dumped file and the result is flawless duplication) I am mostly wondering if anyone else has had a chance to play with this, i would like to see Jiri's port of this make it into ports :) Regards, -ryan
