README.txt in sup-0.0.1 vs README.txt in sup-0.0.2
- old
+ new
@@ -29,60 +29,65 @@
- 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.)
-- 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.
- Multiple buffer support. Why be limited to viewing one thread at a
time?
-- Automatic context-sensitive help.
+- Tons of other little features, like automatic context-sensitive
+ help, multi-message operations, MIME attachment viewing, recent
+ contact list generation, etc.
-- Message tagging and multi-message tagged operations.
-
-- Mutt-style MIME attachment viewing.
-
Current limitations which will be fixed:
-- Support for mbox ONLY at this point. No support for POP, IMAP, and
- GMail accounts.
+- Support for mbox and IMAP only at this point. No support for POP, mh,
+ or GMail mailstores.
- No internationalization support. No wide characters, no subject
demangling.
-- No GMail-style filters.
+- Unix-centrism in MIME attachment handling and in sendmail
+ invocation.
-- Unix-centrism in MIME attachment handling.
+- Several obvious missing features, like undo, filters / saved
+ searches, message annotations, etc.
== SYNOPSYS:
- 1. sup-import <mbox filename>+
+ 1. sup-import <source>+
2. sup
3. edit ~/.sup/config.yaml for the (very few) settings sup has
+ Where <source> is a filename (for mbox files), or an imap or imaps
+ url. In the case of imap, don't put the username and password in
+ the URI (which is a terrible, terrible idea). You will be prompted
+ for them.
+
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.
- 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,
+ 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 may crash,
and will tell you to run sup-import --rebuild to recalculate the
- offsets within the mailbox have changed.
+ offsets within the mailbox.
== REQUIREMENTS:
* ferret >= 0.10.13
* ncurses >= 0.9.1
@@ -91,13 +96,12 @@
== 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
+ (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.
+ reading in multipart messages, this is what you need to change.
== LICENSE:
Copyright (c) 2006 William Morgan.