sup talk - Jul 2007 - Sup 0.1 released

Excerpts from nicholas a. evans''s message of Thu Jul 19 21:18:58 +0300
2007:
> Excerpts from William Morgan''s message of Thu Jul 19 14:01:06
-0400 2007:
> > Features:
> >  - GPG support
> >  - attachment forwarding
> >  - maybe: tab-completion in to: and cc: for composing messages
> > 
> > Comments? Complaints?
> 
> Could we get tab completion for setting labels?  And also a keymapping to
> set labels from thread-view-mode?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
Hi list!
Thanks for a wonderful program William. Here are a few of my desired
features:
- color schemes.
Somehow I''m not that fond of the defaults :) I know I can edit the code
but I''d like to be able to "theme" sup.

- incoming message filters
I''d like to be able to apply filters on incoming messages: label them,
archive some of them and so on

- polling with fetchmail
I use fetchmail and I''d like to be able to add some sort of hook before
polling that would run fetchmail first.

- moving archived articles to another mbox
This would be very useful because it would let me run biff programs.

I might be able to give you a hand (or patch) for one or two of these.
Which ones would you like and which would be the easiest?

Once again, thanks a lot,


-- 
Eugen Minciu.

Wasting valuable time since 1985.

Hi Eugen,

Excerpts from Eugen Minciu''s message of Thu Jul 19 11:58:49 -0700
2007:
> Thanks for a wonderful program William. Here are a few of my desired
> features:
> - color schemes.
On the todo list, along with customizable keybindings, but they''re both
pretty far down. :)
> - incoming message filters
> I''d like to be able to apply filters on incoming messages: label
them,
> archive some of them and so on
The way to do this currently is to use procmail to sort mail into
different folders, and then set labels, auto-archive/auto-read, etc. for
each source in Sup.

I realize that''s not ideal (in particular, users whose mail is
delivered
to IMAP servers not under their control are left out in the cold), but I
really really don''t want to write a slow, buggy, Ruby procmail clone as
part of Sup.

Is there another option? I would really like the full power of procmail.
> - polling with fetchmail
> I use fetchmail and I''d like to be able to add some sort of hook
before
> polling that would run fetchmail first.
I use fetchmail too, so I agree this would be nice. A near-term goal is
to have a good system of user-defined hooks, and I think this would be
the right place for that.
> - moving archived articles to another mbox
> This would be very useful because it would let me run biff programs.
This could be done easily, at least in a batch fashion, with a few
changes to sup-sync-back. I''m not sure if that''s what you
want. How do
you want to use biff with this?

(This reminds me that there is still a completely unresolved question of
 how sup-sync-back should lock mboxes. It doesn''t do any locking at all
 currently, which means you should be probably very careful with it.)
> I might be able to give you a hand (or patch) for one or two of these.
> Which ones would you like and which would be the easiest?
If batch moving of archived messages is useful to you, that''s probably
the easiest one to do. 

Making the colors configurable wouldn''t be too hard either.
I''m
imagining a yaml config file that can override the color setup in
sup.rb. What do you think?

-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>

Excerpts from William Morgan''s message of Thu Jul 19 13:29:30 -0700
2007:
> > - polling with fetchmail
> > I use fetchmail and I''d like to be able to add some sort of
hook before
> > polling that would run fetchmail first.
I''m about to commit a changeset that makes this possible.

-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>