I wanted a simple mail client that would handle all the mail I receive from various accounts and ran across Sup. Impressivly simple and very nicely done in a console application.

Here are the steps I took to get Sup both reading mail in my Gmail account and sending mail out via my Gmail account on my Arch workstation;

• Installed  Yaourt
• Installed Ruby and Rubygems via Yaourt
  • yaourt -Sy ruby rubygems
• Installed VI via Yaourt
  • yaourt -Sy vim vim-colorstamplerpack
• Installed sSMTP via Yaort
  • yaourt -Sy ssmtp
• Setup sSMTP following this Wiki Entry
• Installed Chronic (a date parser, dependency of Sup) via the Ruby Gems tool
  • sudo gem install chronic
    
• Downloaded the latest Tarball of Sup, unpacked it into /tmp and installed it via the Gems
  • sudo gem install sup -y
• My ~/.sup/sources.yaml file looks like this;

	steven ~/.sup $  cat sources.yaml
	---
	- !masanjin.net,2006-10-01/Redwood/IMAP
	uri: imaps://imap.gmail.com:993
	username: myaccount@gmail.com
	password: mygmailpassword
	cur_offset: 12117761440000842
	usual: true
	archived: false
	id: 1
	labels:
	- gmail
	- !masanjin.net,2006-10-01/Redwood/SentLoader
	cur_offset: 555
	- !masanjin.net,2006-10-01/Redwood/DraftLoader
	cur_offset: 0
	

I found this guide very helpful for Sup

Enjoy!

ps; Man does posting from this HTML interface suck rocks. Gotta get some sorta MS Live Writer going.