README.txt in sup-0.0.7 vs README.txt in sup-0.0.8

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@@ -9,13 +9,13 @@ with the speed and simplicity of a console interface. Sup makes it easy to: - Handle massive amounts of email. -- Mix email from different sources: mbox files (even across - different machines), IMAP folders, POP accounts, and GMail - accounts. +- Mix email from different sources: mbox files (even across different + machines), Maildir directories, IMAP folders, POP accounts, 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. @@ -38,11 +38,11 @@ - Scalability to massive amounts of email. Immediate startup and operability, regardless of how much amount of email you have. - Immediate full-text search of your entire email archive, using the - Ferret query langauge. Search over message bodies, labels, from: and + 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. @@ -107,25 +107,31 @@ * ferret >= 0.10.13 * ncurses * rmail * highline +* trollop +* net-ssh == INSTALL: * gem install sup -y == KNOWN BUGS IN OTHER PACKAGES: + * If you get an error about frozen strings in RubyMail when importing certain messages with attachments, in rmail, change line 159 of multipart.rb to: chunk = chunk[0..start] + This is because RubyMail hasn't been updated since like Ruby 1.8.2. + Please bug Matt Lickey. * Occasionally Ferret produces something the Ruby GC doesn't like (particularly when importing messages from very large sources). No worries, just re-run sup-import. (This is unresolved atm.) -* There are a couple other Ferret issues with outstanding patches but - they are pretty rare. - +* If you are using IMAP or Maildir and see this error: + /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/yaml.rb:133:in `transfer': allocator undefined for Bignum (TypeError) + then you need to upgrade to Ruby 1.8.5. YAML in earlier versions + can't parse BigNums. == LICENSE: Copyright (c) 2006, 2007 William Morgan.