How To Install sup-mail on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install sup-mail on Kali Linux. sup-mail is thread-centric mailer with tagging and fast search

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sup-mail on Kali Linux.

What is `sup-mail`

sup-mail is:

Sup is a console-based email client for people with a lot of email. It
supports tagging, very fast full-text search, automatic contact-list
management, custom code insertion via a hook system, and more. If
you’re the type of person who treats email as an extension of your
long-term memory, Sup is for you.

Sup makes it easy to:
* Handle massive amounts of email.
* Mix email from different sources: mbox files and Maildirs, across
multiple machines.
* Instantaneously search over your entire email collection. Search
over body text, or use a query language to combine search predicates
in any way.
* Handle multiple accounts. Replying to email sent to a particular
account will use the correct SMTP server, signature, and from address.
* Add custom code to handle certain types of messages or to handle
certain types of text within messages.
* Organize email with user-defined labels, automatically track recent
contacts, and much more!

The goal of Sup is to become the email client of choice for nerds everywhere.

There are three methods to install sup-mail on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install sup-mail Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install sup-mail using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install sup-mail

Install sup-mail Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install sup-mail using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install sup-mail

Install sup-mail Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install sup-mail using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install sup-mail

How To Uninstall sup-mail on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the sup-mail package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove sup-mail

Uninstall sup-mail And Its Dependencies

To uninstall sup-mail and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove sup-mail

Remove sup-mail Configurations and Data

To remove sup-mail configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge sup-mail

Remove sup-mail configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove sup-mail configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sup-mail

Dependencies

sup-mail have the following dependencies:

References

sup-mail website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install sup-mail package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.