[sup-talk] New User Questions

[Marc Hartstein]

Excerpts from Marcus Williams's message of Fri Mar 28 06:33:45 -0400 2008:
> On 28.3.2008, Marc Hartstein wrote:
> 
> > 5. Can sup be set to automatically poll local sources for new messages
> > every n seconds?  Mutt does this, and it's nice not having to tell it
> > that I know there are new messages and it should go find them.
> 
> It should do already. I dont know offhand what the delay is though.

So it does, I think it's just less frequent than I'm accustomed to.
This should probably go on the list of things which should eventually be
configurable.

> > 6. Mutt can pass text/html attachments through an external program and
> > display the result in its internal pager.  Is there a way to get sup to
> > do the equivalent?
> 
> Theres more than one way to do this. Via a hook for auto-demangling
> (mime-decode.rb)

Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for.  And should be nicely
extensible if I ever want.

> and via the pipe attachment/message keypress '|' in thread view mode.
> Basically if you want to view an attachment put your cursor line over
> the attachment line and hit '|'. sup will pipe the attachment to what
> ever command line you type in here.

Probably too much effort unless it can consult mailcap or something and
fill in an appropriate default.  I wonder how difficult that would be to
add....

> > 7. How does sup choose the email address to use as "From" when replying
> > to an email?  It's definitely choosing the wrong thing in my setup.  My
> > primary address forwards to gmail, sup is configured with the primary as
> > my :email:, but whenever I hit reply it sets "From" to be my gmail
> > address.  I'd like it to be whatever alternate of mine is in To/CC if
> > any, and my primary address otherwise.
> 
> The :alternates: setting is probably what you want here. I think you
> should just have to add your gmail address as an alternate in your
> default account. At least this is how I think it should work!
> Basically the alternate emails list tell sup you receive email at this
> account as these addresses as well, but that you reply using the
> default :email: setting.

Nope.  The gmail address is an alternate, the primary is the :email:, it
tries to reply with the gmail address.  But only sometimes.  I still
haven't figured out what's causing it.

> You may also be interested in the :regexen: list - this allows you to
> setup mail extensions (like marcus-sup that I use) and get sup to
> reply using the extension.

I'll look into this, thanks.

> > 8. Is there any way to specify custom keybindings in a configuration
> > file, or would it require hacking the source?
> 
> Hack the source afaik

Feh, hope that's on the planned features list.

> > 9. Is there a way to default to making all messages PGP-signed?
> 
> I dont think so at the moment (again, it wouldnt be hard to add)

Should probably be a config setting.

> Theres certainly a before-edit hook, which you may be able to do
> things like this in. I havnt played with the pgp stuff yet so someone
> else probably knows more here.

That one's definitely not on the wiki.  I'll have to track down the
canonical list of available hooks...
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