[sup-talk] First impressions

[Allan Wind <allan_wind@lifeintegrity.com>]

I was trying to see if sup v0.12.1 would be a suitable alternative to mutt but
first impressions are shaky.  Is there a more stalbe version than the one from
installed vi gem?  Help/insight appreciated.

As suggest in the new users guide I first ran sup-config, but that seem to
create a bad config and sup crashed on start-up with:

/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.12.1/lib/sup/util.rb:601:in `method_missing': no Redwood::HookManager instance defined in method call to run! (RuntimeError)
        from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.12.1/bin/sup:370
        from /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/sup:19:in `load'
        from /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/sup:19

I am happy to send the .sup directory along if anyone are interested.  Figured
there was nothing else to lose so I blew the .sup directory away, and found
that it was auto-created on start-up.  Nice.

Next step was to add a source and the new users guide suggest using sup-add
with maildir://path/to/a/filename.  This fails with:

allan@vent:~$ sup-add maildir://home/allan/mail/received
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.12.1/lib/sup/index.rb:106:in `initialize': DatabaseLockError: Unable to get write lock on /home/allan/.sup/xapian: already locked (IOError)
        from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.12.1/lib/sup/index.rb:106:in `new'
        from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.12.1/lib/sup/index.rb:106:in `load_index'
        from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.12.1/lib/sup/index.rb:93:in `load'
        from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.12.1/bin/sup-add:80
        from /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/sup-add:19:in `load'
        from /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/sup-add:19

so I quit sup and try it again and get this error:

allan@vent:~$ sup-add maildir://home/allan/mail/received
[Mon Jan 23 01:41:06 -0500 2012] Flushing Xapian updates to disk. This may take a while...
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.12.1/lib/sup/maildir.rb:17:in `initialize': maildir URI cannot have a host: home (ArgumentError)
        from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.12.1/bin/sup-add:100:in `new'
        from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.12.1/bin/sup-add:100
        from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.12.1/bin/sup-add:87:in `each'
        from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.12.1/bin/sup-add:87
        from /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/sup-add:19:in `load'
        from /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/sup-add:19

sup-add --help suggest a single slash alternative syntax which works (not sure
if this a code or doc defect):

For Maildir folders, use the form:
    maildir:<path to Maildir directory>; or
    maildir://<path to Maildir directory>

Next step was to convince sup to use a maildir instead of a mbox for sent
folder.  Changing .sup/config.yml to:

:sent_source: maildir:/home/allan/mail/sent

seemed to be ignord even after adding it as a source as suggested in the email
archives.

Then I tried some of the searches listed in the "Searching your mail" wiki.  In
particular I was trying to find all messages and came up short.  I tried the
date searches (after:yesterday, before:tomorrow etc) but they returned nothing.

I was able to pull up things by lables, and was able to search with from:allan
OR to:allan.  It puzzled me a bit that OR had to be upper case.

In writing this message I postposted (P) and I thought recalled the message with
R and then selected the newest version but the UI gives me the impression that
I end up with a draft each time I postpose a message.   Maybe this is a feature
and I am just missing something here.

I know Q quits and q asks for confirmation.  Is there a way to not have q ask
for confirmation?  Sorry if this is documented somewhere, still going through
the mail archive and wiki.

Hope it helps,


/Allan
-- 
Allan Wind
Life Integrity, LLC
<http://lifeintegrity.com>
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