Removing A Source

Sup doesn't have a command to remove a source, but you can effectively do so by carefully following the instructions below. These steps show how to remove a source by editing a sup internal file and then rebuilding the index from scratch. Open heart surgery ahead, steady hands only!

1. Quit any running instances of sup.

2. Back up your sup configuration directory, so when something goes wrong, you can try again.

    $ cd ~
    $ cp -r .sup .sup_backup
   

3. Go to the sup configuration directory in your home directory.

    $ cd ~/.sup
   

4. Dump sup's index. This stores the state of all mails like labels and read status to a text file.

    $ sup-dump > index-dump.txt
   

5. Delete sup's index.

    $ rm -r xapian
   

6. Open the file sources.yaml in your favourite text editor, and delete all lines belonging to the source you want to remove. In this case, we're removing the inbox for the mail from my university, so we delete lines 2 up to and including 9. Save and exit.

   Be careful not to mess with anything else.

   The ids of the sources are then no longer contiguous, but sup doesn't mind.

1 ---
2 - !supmua.org,2006-10-01/Redwood/Maildir
3   uri: maildir:/home/mkl/MailRU/INBOX/
4   usual: true
5   archived: false
6   sync_back: true
7   id: 5
8   labels:
9   - ru
10 - !supmua.org,2006-10-01/Redwood/Maildir
11   uri: maildir:/home/mkl/MailPosteo/
12   usual: true
13   archived: false
14   sync_back: true
15   id: 7
16   labels: []
17 - !supmua.org,2006-10-01/Redwood/Maildir
18   uri: maildir:/home/mkl/Mail
19   usual: true
20   archived: false
21   sync_back: true
22   id: 8
23   labels:
24   - gmx
25 - !supmua.org,2006-10-01/Redwood/Maildir
26   uri: maildir:/home/mkl/MailM.Klinik/
27   usual: true
28   archived: true
29   sync_back: true
30   id: 6
31   labels:
32   - mklinik
33 - !supmua.org,2006-10-01/Redwood/SentLoader {}

1. Rebuild the index. Depending on how many mails you have, this may take some minutes.

    $ sup-sync --restore index-dump.txt
   

And that's it. At this point, you have a database that is exactly like before, except all mails from the removed source are missing.