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1 From wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net Fri Jun 5 15:02:37 2009
2 From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan)
3 Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:02:37 -0700
4 Subject: [Sup-announce] [ANN] Sup 0.8 released
5 Message-ID: <1244228405-sup-4363@entry>
6
7 I'm pleased to announce the release of Sup 0.8.
8
9 Sup is a console-based email client for people with a lot of email.
10 It supports tagging, very fast full-text search, automatic contact-
11 list management, and more. If you're the type of person who treats
12 email as an extension of your long-term memory, Sup is for you.
13
14 Get it: gem install sup
15 Learn it: http://sup.rubyforge.org
16 Love it: sup-talk at rubyforge.org
17
18 Excitement in 0.8:
19 * Undo support on many operations. Yay!
20 * Mbox splitting fixes. No more "From "-line problems.
21 * Mail parsing speedups.
22 * Many utf8 and widechar fixes. Display of crazy characters should be pretty
23 close.
24 * Outgoing email with non-ASCII headers is now properly encoded.
25 * Email addresses are no longer permanently attached to names. This was
26 causing problems with automated email systems that used different names
27 with the same address.
28 * Curses background now retains the terminal default color. This also makes
29 Sup work better on transparent terminals.
30 * Improve dynamic loading of setlocale for Cygwin and BSD systems.
31 * Labels can now be removed from multiple tagged threads.
32 * Applying operations to tagged threads is now invoked with '='.
33 * Buffer list is betterified and is now invoked with ';'.
34 * Zsh autocompletion support.
35 * As always, many bugfixes and tweaks.
36 --
37 William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>
38
39 From wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net Wed Jun 17 12:13:02 2009
40 From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan)
41 Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:13:02 -0700
42 Subject: [Sup-announce] [ANN] Sup 0.8.1 released
43 Message-ID: <1245255144-sup-1099@entry>
44
45 A bugfix release with fixes for quote parsing (bad behavior in certain
46 long emails), multibyte display for non-utf8 locales, and reply-mode
47 mode selection.
48
49 == 0.8.1 / 2009-06-15
50 * make multibyte display "work" for non-utf8 locales
51 * fix reply-mode always selecting "Customized"
52 * reduce email quote parsing worst-case behavior
53 --
54 William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>
55
56 From wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net Thu Oct 1 14:43:49 2009
57 From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan)
58 Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:43:49 -0700
59 Subject: [Sup-announce] [ANN] Sup 0.9 released
60 Message-ID: <1254422532-sup-9948@masanjin.net>
61
62 I'm pleased to announce the release of Sup 0.9.
63
64 Sup is a console-based email client for people with a lot of email.
65 It supports tagging, very fast full-text search, automatic contact-
66 list management, and more. If you're the type of person who treats
67 email as an extension of your long-term memory, Sup is for you.
68
69 Get it: gem install sup
70 Learn it: http://sup.rubyforge.org
71 Love it: sup-talk at rubyforge.org
72
73 Excitement in 0.9:
74 * Experimental Xapian backend to replace Ferret. Not everything works with it,
75 but it's fast and less likely to barf. See release notes.
76 * New keybinding: "G" for reply-all.
77 * New hook: custom-search, for adding your own query expansions.
78 * Better preemptive thread loading.
79 * Random UI tweaks: display labels before subjects, change thread-view-mode's
80 'n' and 'p' commands slightly
81 * Better killing of other Sup processes.
82 * Die gracefully upon SIGKILL.
83 * Finally figure out the curses+ruby magic to make SIGWINCH (i.e. xterm
84 resizing) work correctly.
85 * Add a console mode (press ~) for interactively playing with the index.
86 * Finally figure out the curses magic to stop the weird keyboard behavior after
87 leaving the editor.
88 * Improved logging. Logging now supports SUP_LOG_LEVEL environment variable.
89 Set this to "debug" for verbiage.
90 * As always, many bugfixes and tweaks.
91
92 Release notes:
93
94 There's a new Xapian backend as an alternative to the Ferret one. It's still in
95 a beta stage. It's much faster and much less prone to the random crashes than
96 Ferret, but certain things don't work yet, most noticeably the unread message
97 counts in label-list-mode.
98
99 You can switch back and forth between both indexes without harm, *except* any
100 new messages added to the one index won't be picked up by the other. Follow
101 these instructions:
102
103 To TRY the Xapian index, without screwing Ferret up:
104
105 1. sup-dump > dump # takes a while
106 2. export SUP_INDEX=xapian # or however you do it in your shell
107 3. sup-sync --all --all-sources --restore dump # takes a long time
108 4. sup -n # -n ensures that no polling is done. don't hit 'P' either
109
110 Step 1 will take a long time, and step 3 will take a very long time.
111
112 At this point, whenever you run Sup, the SUP_INDEX environment variable will
113 determine which index you use. If it's unset, or "ferret", you will use the
114 ferret index. If it's "xapian", the Xapian index. Make sure when you run sup
115 with the Xapian index, you use -n and don't hit 'P', to avoid loading new
116 messages into it.
117
118 If you want to switch to Xapian permanently, you can then:
119
120 1. rm -rf ~/.sup/ferret
121 2. permanently set SUP_INDEX=xapian according to your shell
122 3. Run sup as normal, i.e. without -n.
123
124 If you want to go back to Ferret, you can just rm -rf ~/.sup/xapian and make
125 sure your SUP_INDEX environment variable is unset.
126
127 --
128 William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>
129
130 From wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net Fri Dec 11 12:13:50 2009
131 From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan)
132 Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:13:50 -0800
133 Subject: [Sup-announce] [ANN] Sup 0.9.1 released
134 Message-ID: <1260551530-sup-6131@masanjin.net>
135
136 I'm pleased to announce the release of Sup 0.9.1.
137
138 Sup is a console-based email client for people with a lot of email.
139 It supports tagging, very fast full-text search, automatic contact-
140 list management, and more. If you're the type of person who treats
141 email as an extension of your long-term memory, Sup is for you.
142
143 Get it: gem install sup
144 Learn it: http://sup.rubyforge.org
145 Love it: sup-talk at rubyforge.org
146
147 Release notes:
148
149 This is mainly a bugfix release, with a couple minor new features rolled up.
150
151 If you are using the Ferret backend, consider convering soon. I will probably
152 add a deprecation notice in 0.10, and you support will be dropped in 0.11.
153
154 Excitement in 0.9.1:
155
156 * Make textfield behave more like readline, including C-w
157 * Add ask_for_to config option. You can set all ask_for_* options to false, and
158 composing a message will go immediately to the editor.
159 * RFC 2047 decode attachment file names
160 * default ask_for_to to true
161 * add undo power to thread-view-mode
162 * display labels of polled messages
163 * increase numbers in contact-list-mode
164 * fix --compose option, and add a --subject option
165 * include hook filename in error messages
166 * As always, many bugfixes and tweaks.
167 --
168 William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>
169