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sup-mail

SUP(1)							      General Commands Manual							    SUP(1)

NAME

       sup-mail - Sup, a thread-centric mailer with tagging and fast search

SYNOPSIS

       sup-mail [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the sup-mail command.

       Sup  is a console-based email client. The command sup-mail invokes the interactive curses frontend. Several other commands are used to con-
       figure Sup and add mail sources; please refer to the "New User's Guide" for details.

OPTIONS

       --list-hooks, -l
	      List all hooks and descriptions, and quit

       --no-threads, -n
	      Turn off threading. Helps with debugging. (Necessarily disables background polling for new messages.)

       --no-initial-poll, -o
	      Don't poll for new messages when starting

       --search, -s query
	      Search for this query upon startup

       --compose, -c recipient
	      Compose message to this recipient upon startup

       --version, -v
	      Show version of program

       --help, -h
	      Show summary of options

FILES

       $HOME/.sup/colors.yaml	     Color theme for Sup, see /usr/share/doc/sup-mail/examples for example themes

SEE ALSO

       mail(1), sup-add(1), sup-cmd(1), sup-config(1), sup-dump(1), sup-import-dump(1), sup-recover-sources(1), sup-server(1),	sup-sync(1),  sup-
       sync-back(1), sup-tweak-labels(1)

       /usr/share/doc/sup-mail/NewUserGuide.txt.gz

AUTHOR

       Sup was written by William Morgan <wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net>.

       This manual page was written by Decklin Foster <decklin@red-bean.com> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

																	    SUP(1)

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