Testing ;-)
On 30 March 2012 11:06, Jan Kundrát <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's my pleasure to announce that version v0.3 of Trojitá [1], a fast
> and lightweight IMAP e-mail client based on the Qt library, is now
> available [2]. For more details of what Trojitá is and who should use
> it, please see below.
>
> Changes since version v0.2.9.4
> ------------------------------
>
> This release is a major one, bringing new features, plenty of bugfixes
> and two new contributors to the table. A quick summary of what has happened:
>
> * Drastic reduction in memory usage
> * Tagging e-mails (contributed by Shanti Bouchez)
> * Faster fetching of data
> * Much more efficient support for threading
> * More robust IMAP support
> * A new Debug menu
> * Autocompletion of e-mail addresses (contributed by Thomas Gahr)
> * Reporting server/client configuration through ID
> * Support of multipart/related for full rfc2387 compliance
> * Showing Trojita's homepage on start
> * GUI fixes (now finally works in dark themes)
> * SMTP works over SSL (contributed by Shanti Bouchez)
> * Expanded unit test coverage
> * Plenty of bugfixes and further improvements
>
> What is Trojitá
> ---------------
>
> 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
> * 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 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 [3] 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
> ------------------
>
> Our web has all the required information, but if you are impatient and
> just want to grab the tarball for v0.3, download from Sourceforge:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/trojita/files/src/trojita-0.3.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. A MeeGo version is still pending,
> though.
>
> Reporting bugs and wishes
> -------------------------
>
> 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
> ---------
>
> 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 the wiki.
>
> The IRC channel is #trojita on irc.freenode.net, the mailing list is
> [email protected] (moderation required for non-subscribers,
> archived at various places [6] etc).
>
> Acknowledgment
> --------------
>
> A huge thank you goes to two new contributors who have submitted patches
> to make Trojitá better. It's my please to introduce Shanti Bouchez who
> is responsible for the new feature of tagging messages (and fixed
> STARTTLS for SMTP subscription in the process, among other things). The
> second contributor is Thomas Gahr who added e-mail auto-completion and
> fixed bugs.
>
> Since its inception in 2006, many other people have contributed to
> Trojitá as well. I'd like to mention patches from Benson Tsai, John
> Rogelstad, Andrew Brouwers, Gil Moskowitz, Jiří Helebrant, Jun Yang,
> Justin J, and Tomáš Kouba, who have all sent patches in. Finally,
> another huge thank you goes to anyone who has reported bugs or helped
> make Trojitá better in any way.
>
> [1] http://trojita.flaska.net/
> [2] https://projects.flaska.net/news/8
> [3] https://projects.flaska.net/projects/trojita/issues
> [4] https://projects.flaska.net/projects/trojita/issues/new
> [5]
> https://projects.flaska.net/projects/trojita/wiki/Contributing_to_Trojita
> [6] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.trojita.general
>
> Cheers,
> Jan
>
> --
> Trojita, a fast e-mail client -- http://trojita.flaska.net/
>
