Re: [sup-talk] Help me getting started.

[Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>]

Excerpts from Jonas H.'s message of Sun Dec 19 17:57:33 -0500 2010:

Hi Jonas,

> 1. `sup-configure` asked me for my primary e-mail address. I have no
> primary e-mail address. In fact, I have several "personalities"
> being myself in in different contexts.  It is very important to me
> to make sure those personalities, represented by different e-mail
> addresses, will *never* be accidentally mixed.  Can Sup make me
> force to chose the e-mail address I want to send from for every mail
> I start writing? (Of course, when answering a mail, I would answer
> with the address it was sent to.)

You can add and use multiple email accounts.  The 'primary' label is
more of a 'default' than a primary.  You'll want to use the various
hooks to automatically set the email address used.  You can also
change this while editing the message you're sending.

> 2. How can I display my own email bodies in thread view? Sometimes
> someone digs up thread so ancient I don't remember what I wrote back
> then.

Sup does this automatically.

> 3. I hate mbox. Can I use other mailbox formats for sent e-mails?

Maildir is an option.

> 4. For incoming mails, I used to use POP3, and I want keep storing
> my mail locally (only). Which MDA solution is the best as far as
> performance is concerned? My netbook has very poor CPU and HDD
> performance (loooong HDD wakeup times), so that's what matters most
> in this regard.

I'd say fetchmail, but I think it still requires a local mail delivery
system.  There is likely some pop3 fetch tool, but I'm not familiar
with any of them.

> 5. As it worth using Ruby 1.9 for Sup? I have no idea about Ruby 1.8
> vs Ruby 1.9 -- any bug fixes, performance improvements,
> ... affecting Sup?

I'm still using a really old 1.8.  I've tried to go to 1.9, but I
don't have xapian working yet...

> 6. Vertical scrolling is *very* laggy. The terminal emulator doesn't
> matter; as soon as I do a vertical scroll CPU usage jumps up to
> 100%. Am I missing any important tweaks?

Not sure.

Thanks
-Ben
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Ben Walton
Systems Programmer - CHASS
University of Toronto
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