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sup-heliotrope
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sup-heliotrope / sup

sup

A curses threads-with-tags style email client

8Distinct people
14Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
971GitHub stars
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What it is

A curses threads-with-tags style email client

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year14 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-06-30 15:26:58 UTC to 2024-08-15 22:19:24 UTC.

012342013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

14 sources
supmua. https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup beats mutt hands down. groups emails by tags instead of folders. and it allows to open multiple views at once, keeping state in each. it also supports saved searches as a view. it's not actively maintained right now, but it is stable. i haven't had any problems yet. sup is the ancestor of the notmuch libraries which can be integrated into mutt. but i don't know how well that works. perhaps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18483833 can shed some light on that. greetings, eMBee.
In Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
Use offlineimap. It's slow, but I built this [1] to watch my Gmail mailbox and launch a sync whenever a new mail arrives so I don't have to wait and I don't have to poll. After that you can use mutt with the maildir you have locally. Bonus: you get to backup your mails. I use sup (https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup/) as a MUA to manage my mail, with the gpgpme gem [2] I can use gpg almost flawlessy (but I'm biased, I help maintain it :) [1] https://github.com/rakoo/idlewatch [2] https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup/wiki/gpg
In Securing Email Communications from Facebook
I suggest you take a look at sup (http://supmua.org/). Its goal is to transpose the gmail experience on your terminal. I've been working with the maildirroot branch [0] which mimics the IMAP installation of GMail, so you can use a standard OfflineIMAP to sync between your computer and GMail, and still use all the power of tagging/archiving/searching on your computer. Oh and it has a few niceties, the most important one to me being native support of gpg. Disclaimer: I'm one of the maintainers. [0] https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup/tree/maildir-root
In Write Gmail in Emacs the Easy Way: gmail-message-mode
Our startup: --Metrics: Mixpanel (http://www.mixpanel.com) --Issue tracking Back to post it wall --SVM Github (http://www.github.com) --Deployment Heroku (http://www.heroku.com) Custom stuff --Sales Close.io (http://close.io) --Payments Braintree (http://www.braintreepayments.com) --Errortracking Appsignal (http://www.appsignal.com) Sentry (for non Ruby stuff, self hosted) (http://getsentry.com) --Performance metrics Appsignal (http://www.appsignal.com) New Relic (http://www.newrelic.com) And some specific stuff in mixpanel --Logs Papertrail (http://www.papertrailapp.com) --Databases and such Elasticsearch (http://www.elasticsearch.org) Postgresql Redis Memcache --Frameworks and stacks Golang (bare, high performance/reliability stuff) Rails/ruby (Main -crud application) Backbone (frontend) Node.js (high performance low reliabillity stuff)
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Clojure (Wrapping a language detection api) --Support Zendesk As a freelancer/developer: --Editor: Vim --Todos/Research/Planning/Notes/Calendar: Orgmode --Invoicing: Moneybird (dutch, http://www.moneybird.com) --Email: Sup (https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup) --Backups: Git + Dropbox + Timemachine (to Nas) + Amazon Glacier
In Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2014 edition

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