Hi, it's my pleasure to announce that version v0.2.9.3 of Trojitá [1], a fast and lightweight IMAP e-mail client based on the Qt library, is now available. For more details of what Trojitá is and who should use it, please see below.
Most of the changes in this release fix bugs and improve IMAP
interoperability, but we've got a few GUI improvement as well, like
better indication of mailboxes containing "recent" messages.
(Permanent link to this announcement: [2].)
Changes since version v0.2.9:
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* Visual indication for recent messages in mailboxes and threads with
unread messages
* Drag and drop of messages between folders
* Improved threading
* IMAP bug fixes and relaxed parsing for broken IMAP servers
* Greater unit test coverage
xTuple integration
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This version is included in the release candidate of the new version of
the xTuple business management software [3]. It is a first real-world
deployment of Trojitá, manifesting its versatility, robustness and
reliability.
What is Trojitá
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Trojitá is a very fast and lightweight IMAP e-mail client written using
the Qt library.
What could make Trojitá interesting for you:
* It's a pure Qt4 application with no additional dependencies; it builds
in two-and-half minutes on a five-year-old laptop
* Robust IMAP core implemented using Qt's Model-View framework
* Standards compliance is a design goal
* On-demand message list and body part loading ("lazy loading")
* Offline IMAP support
* Support for bandwidth-saving mode aimed at mobile users with expensive
connection
* IMAP over SSH -- instead of going over an SSL socket, the server could
be accessed via SSH, allowing password-less e-mail
* Safe and robust dealing with HTML mail
Please note that the "message sending" and "message composing" features
of Trojitá are a bit lagging at this point and therefore it is not
recommended to use Trojitá for these tasks apart from testing.
Certain features of Trojitá depend on the IMAP server's functionality.
Trojitá is written from the bottom-up as an IMAP client and is designed
around its feature set. For example, threaded message viewing (ie.
"conversations") is supported only if the server implements an
appropriate extension for now.
Trojitá is under heavy development, features are added on almost daily
basis and the codebase is rapidly maturing. Certain useful features are
still missing, there is no support for searching, for example. We have
tickets opened for these, so please Cc yourself at the task tracker [4]
if you would like to follow the progress here.
Finally, as with any software, Trojitá has some bugs which are already
known and reported in the issue tracker [4] and some which are still
waiting for discovery. That said, it is safe to use to for reading mail.
I've been doing that for several years on a production account, and I
have never lost a mail with Trojitá. Please do not send e-mails with
current version, though, as it is known to produce non-standard messages
in certain circumstances.
Where I can get it
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Our web [5] has all the required information, but if you are impatient
and just want to grab the tarball for v0.2.9.3, download from Sourceforge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/trojita/files/src/trojita-0.2.9.3.tar.bz2/download
Trojitá is known to work on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows. It should also
run on all platforms supported by Qt. Optimizations for mobile devices
and the Maemo/MeeGo are in the works.
Reporting bugs and wishes
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Please use the Redmine portal [4] to report issues with Trojitá. If you
do not want to be bothered by a registration, please at least send bug
reports via e-mail or report them at the #trojita IRC channel on Freenode.
Community
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Trojita could always use more people in the community. Areas in which
people are needed most, as well as general guidelines about how we
prefer to work are documented at our wiki [6].
The IRC channel is #trojita on irc.freenode.net, the mailing list is
[email protected] (moderation required for non-subscribers,
archived [7] etc).
Acknowledgment
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I'd like to thank the KWest GmbH. and OpenMFG LLC, dba xTuple for their
support in delivering the exciting new features of Trojitá. Another
acknowledgment goes to the helpful folks at the #qt IRC channel and the
qt-interest mailing list and also to everybody who reported an issue
with Trojita or tested it against another IMAP server. A big thanks goes
to the following people who have contributed patches to Trojitá: Benson
Tsai, John Rogelstad, Andrew Brouwers, Gil Moskowitz, Jiří Helebrant,
Jun Yang, Justin J, and Tomáš Kouba.
All the best,
Jan
[1] http://trojita.flaska.net/
[2] http://projects.flaska.net/news/show/6
[3] http://www.xtuple.com/
[4] http://projects.flaska.net/projects/trojita/issues
[5] http://trojita.flaska.net/download.html
[6] http://projects.flaska.net/wiki/trojita/Contributing_to_Trojita
[7] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.trojita.general
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