On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 01:09:27PM +0200, pancake wrote: > I have recently read this post and got interest on trying sup: > > http://cworth.org/sup/a-mail-client-for-geeks/ > > Does somebody already tried? I have installed with: > > sudo gem install sup > > And i'm going to start playing with it, but a part from the nice > features I read, I can't avoid thinking on reimplementing it in > a suckless way :) It's nice to see new concepts on the mail platform, > but I certainly see nothing new (because Gmail already did it), but > it's nice to see it as in Free Software. >
I've tried using it, if I didn't already have a big archive of old mails that I need to refer to and you are starting up a new account its probably worth trying out. generating the ferret db's for an existing set of mbox's or mdir's is a pain in the ass and takes a while. in general i found sup to be a buggy and just crashes occassionaly. I ended up going back to mutt 1.5.x jimmy -- Jimmy Tang Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing, Lloyd Building, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/ | http://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/~jtang
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