From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by 10.42.179.196 with SMTP id br4cs124475icb; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:02:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.229.88.207 with SMTP id b15mr3017139qcm.187.1290891730827; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:02:10 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: from rubyforge.org (rubyforge.org [205.234.109.19]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id b18si3194346vby.72.2010.11.27.13.02.10; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:02:10 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of sup-talk-bounces@rubyforge.org designates 205.234.109.19 as permitted sender) client-ip=205.234.109.19; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of sup-talk-bounces@rubyforge.org designates 205.234.109.19 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=sup-talk-bounces@rubyforge.org Received: from rubyforge.org (rubyforge.org [127.0.0.1]) by rubyforge.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69332185837E; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:02:10 -0500 (EST) Received: from barfooze.de (barfooze.de [78.46.117.212]) by rubyforge.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51D591858364 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:57:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from moritz by barfooze.de with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PMRpn-0004ub-6B for sup-talk@rubyforge.org; Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:57:27 +0100 From: Moritz Wilhelmy To: sup-talk In-reply-to: <1290889043-sup-6470@mailer> References: <1290889043-sup-6470@mailer> Hi, Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:57:27 +0100 Message-Id: <1290890855-sup-3282@niflheimr> User-Agent: Sup/git Subject: Re: [sup-talk] IMAP, labels, editors X-BeenThere: sup-talk@rubyforge.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: User & developer discussion of Sup List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: sup-talk-bounces@rubyforge.org Errors-To: sup-talk-bounces@rubyforge.org Excerpts from Damien Leone's message of Sat Nov 27 21:26:43 +0100 2010: > > I've read in the latest History file that IMAP support is deprecated. > > Are you going to drop it? I mainly use IMAP to read my e-mail boxes, > > because I need to deal with them from different workstations (say: > > home, office, laptop, etc.). > > For this reason the local Maildir approach won't work for me. > > You can use offlineimap to fetch e-mails from your IMAP server and > save them as Maildir that are then added in sup. By setting your hooks > properly you can automatically call offlineimap before polling (see > the wiki). Alternatives to offlineimap to store mail in mbox/maildir include getmail (which is what I use) and fetchmail. > > About message composition, do you have any recommended editor, given > > the fact that I never used a lot Vi nor Emacs? > > I use emacs with post-mode. sup's keybindings are modeled largely after mutt's, and not really modeled after neither vim nor emacs, so you don't have any benefits in learning how to use sup if you already know how to use vim/emacs (or vice versa). sup has a setting where you can change your preferred editor. As far as I remember, the tool that initially writes the configuration (`sup-config') defaults to vim. Personally, I use vim with mail-syntax-hilighting. Best regards, Moritz _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list sup-talk@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk