[sup-talk] unable to sup-sync (new install)

[Kevin Mark]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 10:12:15AM -0700, William Morgan wrote:
> Excerpts from Kevin Mark's message of Sun Sep 16 20:26:44 -0700 2007:
> > sudo gem install sup -y
> > 
> > To run 'sup', I needed to add 'export PATH=/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin:"${PATH}"' to
> > .bashrc
> 
> This is a symptom of how Ubuntu deals with gems. Unfortunately there's
> not a lot I can do about it from my end.

That sounds like what I expected, as I think Debian, more or less
upstream,  may have a similar 'gem' status, although I have not checked.

> 
> > /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/sup-0.1/lib/sup/source.rb:80:in `done?': undefined method `>=' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
> 
> Is your maildir empty? 

No.

> If so, this is lousy programming on my part.  Sorry! If a maildir has
> no messages, Sup dies in this horrific way.  I've just committed a
> patch to SVN to fix this. You can either pull down the SVN head, or
> just add a message to your maildir directory. :)

Hmm. No, my maildir has more than a GB. It includes a few subdirectories
of gziped mbox. And most of the maildir mail boxes start with '.', as in
'~/Maildir/.floss.sup_talk/'

> 
> If the maildir isn't empty, then I need to think of another reason why
> this would happen.

Here is a sample:
/home/kevin/Maildir/.people.cothrige
/home/kevin/Maildir/.people.cothrige/cur
/home/kevin/Maildir/.people.cothrige/new
/home/kevin/Maildir/.people.cothrige/tmp
/home/kevin/Maildir/.people.dallas_a_clement
/home/kevin/Maildir/.people.dallas_a_clement/cur
/home/kevin/Maildir/.people.dallas_a_clement/new
/home/kevin/Maildir/.people.dallas_a_clement/tmp
/home/kevin/Maildir/.people.dana_spiegel
/home/kevin/Maildir/.people.dana_spiegel/cur
/home/kevin/Maildir/.people.dana_spiegel/new
/home/kevin/Maildir/.people.dana_spiegel/tmp
/home/kevin/Maildir/.people.david_weinehall
/home/kevin/Maildir/.people.david_weinehall/cur
/home/kevin/Maildir/.people.david_weinehall/new
/home/kevin/Maildir/.people.david_weinehall/tmp
/home/kevin/Maildir/.people.enrico_zini

I just have one thought as to the error:
there are many mail directories and some of them are empty. I archive
them every month. So '/home/kevin/Maildir/.david_weinehall/*' does not
have any messages.

I just thought of a second issue. In sup-config, you ask to define each
individual mailbox. What I did in the program 'mairix' is to define a
group of mail boxes with some kind of 'glob' so that I can say
'maildir/...' and mean all maildir's in that subdirectory.

cheers,
Kev

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